Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design 511 NW Broadway Portland, Oregon 97209 pnca.edu 2019 - 2020 65 | FINANCIAL AID Graduate students apply for aid through our FAFSA in the same manner as undergraduate students. PNCA offers Federal Stafford Loans, Graduate PLUS Loans, and institutional aid. All enrolled graduate students are eligible for STUDIES HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE merit scholarship funds, which are awarded based on the strength of the application. There is no separate application for scholarships. pnca.edu/financialaid VISITING THE CAMPUS Visit pnca.edu/visit to sign up for a graduate tour or email [email protected] to schedule a campus visit and learn more about our graduate offerings. 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HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES Pacific Northwest College of Art WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY HERE. WE ASK BIG QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT CAN ART AND DESIGN DO IN THE WORLD IF WE PUSH OURSELVES TO REIMAGINE EVERYTHING? WE EXPERIMENT ENDLESSLY. WE CHALLENGE ONE ANOTHER TO BREAK THINGS APART AND RECONSTITUTE THEM IN NEW WAYS. WE ARE COLLABORATIVE. WE RELENTLESSLY WORK BETWEEN AND ACROSS DISCIPLINES BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE INNOVATION HAPPENS. The MA and MFA programs of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate for emerging artists, designers, Studies at PNCA support the and creators with an educational development of experimental, philosophy that emphasizes interdisciplinary creative practices individualized curricula, independent as well as traditional forms of inquiry, and cross-disciplinary making through experiential learning, exchange. Graduate programs within student-centered seminars, and one- the Hallie Ford School of Graduate on-one mentorship. Graduate study is Studies at PNCA support students individualized and self-directed, yet as they professionalize as artists, highly collaborative and supported scholars, and cultural workers. Our by a broad network of peers, faculty, students develop a broad range of visiting artists, writers, and scholars, skills and a network of peers and as well as community partners. mentors that support their work as they continue to evolve years after For more than 100 years, the graduation. Pacific Northwest College of Art has served as a dynamic creative center GRADUATE PROGRAMS MFA APPLIED CRAFT + DESIGN 26 MFA COLLABORATIVE DESIGN + MA DESIGN SYSTEMS 30 MA CRITICAL STUDIES 34 MFA PRINT MEDIA 38 MFA VISUAL STUDIES 42 MFA LOW-RESIDENCY IN CREATIVE WRITING 46 MFA LOW-RESIDENCY IN VISUAL 50STUDIES DUAL MA/MFA 54 POST- BACCALAUREATE 55RESIDENCY 4 | PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART COLLEGE OF ART NORTHWEST PACIFIC Emma Flick | MFA PM Russell Wood | MFA PM Alisha Sullivan | MFA AC+D 5 | HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE Student Work Rhonda Tuholsky | MFA VS PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART | 6 Brittany Windsor | MFA VS Windsor |MFA Brittany LK James | MFA AC+D LK James|MFA 7 | HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE Jess Iams | MFA VS PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART | 8 Linda Heidvolgel | MFA AC+D |MFA Linda Heidvolgel 9 | HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE Kelly Brand | MFA VS Ophir El-Boher | MFA CD+DS 10 | COMMUNITY HERE YOU ARE PART OF A COMMUNITY THAT WILL CHALLENGE YOU AND SUPPORT PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART COLLEGE OF ART NORTHWEST PACIFIC YOU IN EQUAL MEASURE WHILE HELPING YOU BUILD PRODUCTIVE NETWORKS FOR LIFE AFTER PNCA. FACULTY Our faculty members who teach across the programs of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies bring experience in diverse forms of cultural production from traditional art making to highly conceptual practices. They are curators, writers, critics, activists, performance makers, social practice artists and scholars engaged with the broadest range of TAYLOR EGGÅN KRISTAN KENNEDY forms and contemporary practice. Taylor Eggån is a scholar and a Kristan Kennedy is a curator, performance maker. He holds artist, and educator. She is the a PhD in English from Princeton Artistic Director and Curator of LUCY COTTER University. His dissertation, titled Visual Art at the Portland Institute Lucy Cotter is a writer, curator, artist, The Ecological Uncanny, combined for Contemporary Art with which and cultural theorist who inhabits his numerous interests in she has been involved in various in-between spaces, bridging environmental philosophy, global capacities since 1995. Kennedy practice and theory in contemporary modernisms, narrative theory, is the chief architect for the art and other fields. She holds a speculative realism, and recent Precipice Fund, PICA’s re-granting PhD in Cultural Analysis from the developments in neuroscience program funded by The Andy University of Amsterdam and was and physics. He is also a specialist Warhol Foundation. She regularly curator of the Dutch pavilion of the in postcolonial literature, with lectures on curatorial practice 57th Venice Biennale 2017. Cotter particular emphasis on African and artist-centric ethics and has is widely published as a writer on literatures and has published on been a juror, panelist, and adviser contemporary art, contributing to Joseph Conrad, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, for foundations and institutions books, catalogues, and such journals and the Swahili novelist Emmanuel including Creative Capital, On the as Mousse, Artforum, Frieze online, Mbogo. In addition, Eggån is Boards, Headlands Center for the and Third Text. Her book, Reclaiming a contemporary dance artist, Arts, Rauschenberg Foundation, Artistic Research, was commissioned choreographer, and dramaturg who United States Artists, The Artists by 17, Institute for Critical Studies has performed with POV Dance and Trust, and the Foundation for (Mexico City), and published by Hatje Eliza Larson's FaultLine Dance. Contemporary Art. Kennedy is Cantz. represented by Fourteen30 Gallery. 11 | MENTORS The mentor-student relationship is personal and unique and is at the heart of the MFA programs in the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies. Mentors serve as advocate, critic, and colleague for the MFA candidate. Mentors HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE are paired with each candidate based on the candidate’s field of inquiry and are drawn from an expansive professional network that includes professionals in the Portland art community, our international colleagues, and PNCA faculty members. Alejandro de Acosta Erin Boburg Doughton Dru Donovan Meghan Drury Sarah Farahat Derek Franklin keyon gaskin SHARITA TOWNE WALIDAH IMARISHA Chiara Giovando Sharita Towne is a research-based Walidah Imarisha is an educator, John Houck video artist and printmaker most writer, spoken word artist, and Yoshihiro Kitai interested in creating interdisciplinary public scholar. She has edited two Lisa Knisely community art projects that engage anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Michael Lazarus local and global Black geographies, Fiction Stories From Social Justice Brian McHale histories, and possibilities. Towne Movements and Another World is Jessie Mejia is the co-founder of URe:AD Press Possible. Imarisha’s nonfiction book, Paul Mullowney (United Re:Public of the African Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories Vi Khi Nao Diaspora),The Black Life Experiential of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, won Jess Perlitz Research Group, and is also known a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is Ralph Pugay as “Mariah Carrie Mae Weems”, one- the author of the poetry collection Wendy Redstar fourth of the post-colonial conceptual Scars/Stars, and in 2015, she received Jen Delos Reyes karaoke band Weird Allan Kaprow. a Tiptree Fellowship for her science Brigitte Salami Towne is a recipient of a 2019 Creative fiction writing. Imarisha has taught Sarah Sentilles Capital Award with Lisa K. Bates for at Stanford University, Portland Brandon Shimoda The Black Life Experiential Research State