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IMMERSIVE intensives twice yearly plus year round research give you timeto realize work and build context while sharpening critical, formaland intellectual tools.

INTERNATIONAL guest faculty and students widen the conversationand broaden your network.

FLEXIBLE program perfect for working artists and professionals.

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PNCA’S LOW-RESIDENCY MFA IN

VISUAL STUDIES (LRVS) program,

rooted in critical investigation

and rigorous, self-disciplined

creative practice, is ideal for

motivated students who can work

independently, who desire a flexible

structure, and who are seeking

the challenge and community of

an immersive graduate program,

inclusive of both discipline-specific

and interdisciplinary practices.

Modeled after the successful MFA

in Visual Studies Program, this

60-credit low-residency, mentor-

based art program combines intensive graduate seminars,

an exceptional visiting artist program, and a focus on the

educational and professional goals of each individual

student. Intensive courses occur during three consecutive

Summer Intensives and two brief Winter Intensives.

The low-residency program’s longer degree-

completion times, flexible schedules, lower tuition

and cost of attendance, and the distance-learning

component, which does not require students to

permanently relocate, make it suitable for students

who are already engaged in the professional world.

Learning is achieved through independent inquiry, in-

depth studio exploration, peer-to-peer dialogue, intensive

cross-disciplinary group critiques, and exposure to a wide

range of visiting artists, critics, and scholars. Through

the MFA Visiting Artist Program students engage a mix of

emerging as well as prominent national and international

professional artists, curators, scholars, and critics.

For students unable to commit 18-24 months of their lives

to full-time schooling this program provides a platform

to engage in rigorous study with a diverse range of

contemporary cultural voices. Students gather on-campus

each summer for an eight-week intensive that includes

graduate seminars, critiques, studio visits, visiting artist

lectures and demonstrations, and intensive periods of

studio practice. Each student receives his or her own

studio space where they develop new work as well as

have one-on-one studio visits and critiques with visiting

artists. The Summer Intensive studios are located on

campus where students have access to PNCA’s robust and

varied centers for making, including digital production

studios, sculpture shops, print studios, and more. Each week

during the intensive a Visiting Artist or Scholar is hosted

by the program introducing MFA students to the breadth of

contemporary artistic, scholarly, philosophical and cultural

voices. Each summer the Low-Residency MFA also hosts

an Artist-in-Residence who works for an extended period

within the program. Visiting Artists, Scholars, and Artists-

in-Residence are selected specifically in response to the

MFA students within the program and their areas of inquiry.

The Fall and Spring semesters are periods of deeper

contemplation and productivity during which the MFA

students work off-site in their personal studios to

incorporate the ideas and insights gained from the Summer

into their studio practice, research, and writing. The MFA

Chair assists in the selection of a local mentor for these

semesters, an expert in the student’s area of focus who

will provide guidance and support while maintaining the

rigorous standards of the program. This mentorship is

an integral component of the program bringing diversity,

richness and depth of experience to the MFA candidates.

During five days in January, students meet on

campus for Winter reviews during which they receive

feedback on work produced during the Fall and engage

in intensive seminars and short workshops.

Students gather on campus each summer

for an eight-week intensive that includes

graduate seminars, critiques, studio visits, visiting artist

lectures and demonstrations, and focused periods of studio

practice. Each MFA student will be provided with a private

studio to make new work over the course of the eight- week

summer session. Work made each summer is used for

display, critique, dialogue, and iteration. While the majority

of the students’ studio work is developed and guided

by mentors in subsequent terms, the summer provides

valuable peer-to-peer observation and focus guided by

the MFA Chair and visiting artists and faculty. The Summer

Intensive studios are located on campus, where students

have access to PNCA’s centers for making, including digital

production studios, sculpture shops, print studios, and more.

Each week during the intensive, the program

hosts a Visiting Artist or Scholar, introducing MFA

students to the breadth of contemporary artistic,

scholarly, philosophical, and cultural voices.

Graduate Seminars expose students to contemporary art

histories, strategies, artists, curators, critics, and systems

that influence and drive the expansion of the current art

world. In these courses art and theory are approached in

an interconnected fashion, with an emphasis on the flow

and interchange of significant ideas between the visual and

the textual—art in dialogue with theory and history. These

seminars provide students with an intellectual community

and critical forum in which they may test, temper, and

enlarge the ideas that underlie their artistic goals.

YEAR ONE

SUMMER (8 WEEKS)

Graduate Studio

Graduate Critique Seminar

Contemporary Art Seminar

Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Optional Studio Elective

FALL (15 WEEKS)

Mentor-Guided Independent

Graduate Studio

WINTER (5 DAYS)

Library Research Course

Winter Review

SPRING (15 WEEKS)

Mentor-Guided Independent

Graduate Studio

YEAR TWO

SUMMER (8 WEEKS)

Graduate Studio

Graduate Critique Seminar

Critical Studies Seminar

Art History/Critical Studies

Visiting Artist Lecture Series

FALL (15 WEEKS)

Mentor-Guided Independent

Graduate Studio

WINTER (5 DAYS)

Graduate Thesis Writing 1

Winter Review

SPRING (15 WEEKS)

Mentor-Guided Independent

Graduate Studio

Graduate Thesis Writing 2

YEAR THREE

SUMMER (8 WEEKS)

Graduate Studio (Thesis)

Graduate Critique Seminar Elective

Professional Practice

Elective courses are chosen in consultation with the MFA Chair and allow opportunities for new exploration of ideas and skills acquisition. Global study abroad and internship opportunities incorporate as much flexibility as possible to support the student’s specific area of specialization and career interest.

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Aeron Bergman (born Detroit, USA) works as an artist-duo with Alejandra

Salinas (born La Rioja, Spain), and the pair founded the artist-run space

Institute for New Connotative Action: INCA and the independent art

publisher INCA Press. They have lived in New York, Toronto, Detroit, London,

Barcelona, Gothenburg, Oslo, Seattle, and are currently based in Portland.

Aeron Bergman was a head professor at the Oslo National Academy

of the Arts 2007-2013, professor and advisor in the Nordic Sound

Art low residency MA 2007-2013, and supervisor of the National

Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship 2007-2013. Bergman has been visiting professor

in several institutions including the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah,

the Art Academy in Umeå, Sweden, and the Trondheim Academy of Art, Norway. He was

Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington, Bothell 2013-2017.

Bergman and Salinas have shown work internationally at institutions such as the 4th

Athens Biennale; 1st Bergen Assembly Triennial; 2007 Turku Biennial; 1st Struer Tracks

Sound Art Biennial; Steirischer Herbst 2013, Graz; Fundação de Serralves, Porto; Eastside

Projects, Birmingham, UK; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; ICC Tokyo; IASPIS, Stockholm;

Lincoln Center and DAC in New York City; e-flux and Berlin Film Festival in Berlin; Center

for Contemporary Art Glasgow; Edinburgh Film Festival and Dundee Contemporary Art in

Scotland; MOCA Novi Sad; Taipei Fine Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Centre

George Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris; IMO and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen;

Henie Onstad Art Center, Kunstnernes Hus and 0047 in Oslo, MUDAM Luxembourg; Ruler and

HIAP in Helsinki; The Luminary, St Louis, and the Ski Club, Milwaukee among many others.

Their sound art has been broadcast on radio such as the BBC

and Resonance FM, in London; WDR Cologne; R2 Madrid; SV2

Stockholm; Radio France; CBC Canada; WFMU New York; and

Taipei Philharmonic Radio. The pair won an award of distinction

in digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

For more information see:

alejandra-aeron.com incainstitute.org

The International Studio Fellowship is a unique and highly competitive

merit award offered to one international student per year through

the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program. The fellowship

award will be announced to awardee at time of acceptance. For

more information about the International Studio Fellowship please

contact Aeron Bergman, Program Chair, abergman@pnca.edu.

Apply at:

pnca.edu/admissions/reqs/c/int_apply

Applications for Summer admittance to this program

will be reviewed beginning February 1. Applications will

continue to be accepted until the class is filled.

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SONDRA PERRY PERTH AMBOYSondra Perry's videos and performances foreground the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential. She lives and works in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York; ICA Philadelphia; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; 2015 Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1; Seattle Art Museum; Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle; Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York; and Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA.

In 2014 Sondra Perry was Guest Lecturer at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Perry has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-bow, the Experimental Television Center, and the CORE program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She was recently awarded the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize for a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum.

CLAIRE FONTAINE PARISClaire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004.

After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.

Recent shows include, Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München, They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Lucky In The Misfortune, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Feux de Détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris et Claire Fontaine, The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, 2.10, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Franscisco. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, T293, Napoli, Galerie Neu, Berlin and Galerie Chantal Crousel / Air de Paris, Paris.

SUHAIL MALIK LONDONSuhail Malik is a writer and currently Visiting Faculty at CCS, Bard College. Malik holds a Readership in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, London, where he is Programme Co-Director of the MFA Fine Art.

Recent publications include: “Tainted Love: Art’s Ethos and Capitalization” (with Andrea Phillips) in Art and Its Commercial Markets (2012); “Image – Nonimage – War” in Ekfrase (2012); “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Participate Again— Communism, Its Recurring Nightmare” in Waking Up From the Nightmare of Participation (2011), “Why Art? The Primacy of Audience” Global Art Forum, Dubai (2011); “The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy” (with Andrea Phillips) in Reading Rancière (2011); “Educations Sentimental and Unsentimental: Repositioning the Politics of Art and Education” in Redhook Journal (2011); “Screw (Down) The Debt: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Austerity” in Mute (2010); “You Are Here” for Manifesta 8 (2010).

MANUEL ARTURO ABREU PORTLANDmanuel arturo abreu (Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx, currently living and making in a garage in Southeast Portland. They work with text, ephemeral sculpture, and photography. Recent and forthcoming work is included in Apogee Journal, SFMoMA Open Space, Poor Claudia, Vetch, Rhizome, As It Stands LA, the NON Quarterly publication, NewHive, and more. They co-facilitate home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland. They wrote List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and transtrender (Quimérica Books, 2017).

OEI STOCKHOLMOEI is a Stockholm based magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments, ¬ experimental forms of thinking, montages between poetry, art, philosophy, film, and documents; editorial enunciations, aesthetic technologies, non-affirmative writing, and alternative historiographies. OEI was founded in 1999 and has published 70 issues. OEI editor was initiated in 2002 and has published some 80 books of investigative poetry, aesthetic documents, artist’s books, theoretical and poetological texts etc., and has collaborated with many international institutions such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the 30th Bienal de São Paulo. Connected to OEI is also since 2012 the micro-gallery OEI Colour Project. OEI is run by Jonas (J) Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg.

JOHN RIEPENHOFF MILWAUKEEJohn Riepenhoff founded the Green Gallery in Milwaukee in 2004, when he was twenty-two; his cousin Jake Palmert joined him in 2009. Over the past several years, Riepenhoff has merged his roles as artist and gallerist. His recent exhibitions and curatorial projects have been presented at the 2017 Whitney Biennial; Marlborough Chelsea, and Swiss Institute, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR; 356 Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA; Poor Farm, WI; Lynden Sculpture Garden, Inova, and The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA.

He also continues a program of the John Riepenhoff Experience at various locations around the world, most recently at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Misako and Rosen, Tokyo. He was the 2015 Milwaukee Arts Board Artist of the Year, co-chairs Friends of Blue Dress Park, founded Milwaukee's first Beer Endowment for artist-run organizations, runs The Oven at The Open in Milwaukee, and sits on the board of Riverwest Radio.

PDP (PUBLIC DISPLAY OF PROFESSIONALISM) PATRICIA MARGARITA HERNANDEZ AND NATALIA ZULUAGA MIAMIPDP, a transdisciplinary think tank embedded in [Miami’s Design District] is a site for collective thought, discourse, knowledge exchange, and production. The projects that PDP undertakes question the ways in which [Miami]’s image, financial capital, and information flows generate new “creative” business models, neighborhood redevelopments, and high-end retail centers, all of which exploit a particular mode of [relaxed tropicality].

Natalia Zuluaga is a curator and researcher based in Miami, Florida. She is currently the Artistic Director at ArtCenter South Florida and co-runs [NAME] Publications. Between 2007-2012 she managed the exhibition and publishing initiatives for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Zuluaga holds an M.A. from CCS, Bard College (2015).

Patricia Margarita Hernandez is a curator, researcher, and producer of contemporary art, who is dedicated to unconventional theoretical and practical methodologies that circumvent traditional art formats. Hernandez received her M.A. at the CCS, Bard College in May 2016.

She co-founded and directed the end/SPRING BREAK (2009-2015).

ALEXANDRIA EREGBU CHICAGOAlexandria Eregbu is a conceptual artist and multi-disciplinary deviant. Her practice often takes shape in the form of maker, curator, and educator. Led by the spirit of inquiry and desire— Alexandria's work interrogates soul urgency and seeks to restore balance amongst past familial, ancestral, and collective traumas, with the intent of guiding a more vibrant and harmonious future.

Most notably, Alexandria was a recipient of the 3Arts Award in 2016. She has participated in a range of exhibitions and fellowships including: Artist in Residence with The Center for AfroFuturist Studies in Iowa City, and the Stony Island Arts Bank (2016); Curatorial Fellow with ICI's Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans (2017); and Artist Resident at Camargo Foundation (2018). Her work has been highlighted in Hyperallergic, AFROPUNK, VAM Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Bad At Sports, and listed in Newcity's "Breakout Artists: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers." She received her BFA in Performance and Fiber + Materials Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013.

BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ

SAN JUANBeatriz Santiago Muñoz lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Santiago Muñoz’s work arises out of long periods of observation and documentation, in which the camera is present as an object with social implications and as an instrument mediating aesthetic thought. Her films frequently start out as research into specific social structures, individuals or events, which she transforms into performance and moving image. Santiago Muñoz’s recent work has been concerned with post-military land, Haitian poetics, and feminist speculative fictions.

Recent exhibitions include: Song, Strategy, Sign at the New Museum, A Universe of Fragile Mirrors at the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, 2017 Whitney Biennial, MATRULLA, Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, México City; Post-Military Cinema, Glasgow International. Her work is included in public and private collections such as the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Kadist and the Bronx Museum. She is also co-founder of Beta-Local, an arts oganization in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a 2015 Creative Capital Visual Arts Grantee and a 2016 USA Fellow.

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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTUREThe CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE at PNCA brings influential artists and curators to PNCA to make exhibitions, lecture, critique, and participate in studio visits and workshops with students. In addition The Center is the steward of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, with over 1,000 works of craft.

The Center has recently shown new work by CAULEEN SMITH, LETHA WILSON, BRUCE NAUMAN, and DAVID HORVITZ.

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Portland is an ideal city for making, living, and playing, where graduate students can take advantage of a range of cultural and natural resources. Ecologically minded, environmentally progressive, Portland is flanked by the

Columbia River to the north, Mt. Hood to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Willamette Valley to the south.

Local cultural institutions such as PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE, YALE UNION, and NORTHWEST FILM CENTER present important contemporary art programming. And Portland is home to numerous creative industries and a thriving community of artists, designers, musicians, and writers with independent spirits and innovative mindsets.

Portland’s cultural and environmental richness is enhanced by personable neighborhoods, an efficient public transportation system, delicious food offerings, and a temperate climate. This eminently livable city provides an ideal backdrop for a graduate education.

CAMPUS FACILITIES AND RESOURCESPNCA’s campus is centered on the tree-lined North Park Blocks in downtown Portland in a neighborhood that is home to most of the city’s art galleries and a concentration of design studios. PNCA’s Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design is a 100-year-old former federal post office renovated with a striking, contemporary design that brings natural light into nearly every working space in the building.

Our print studio is one of the most comprehensive and dynamic print labs in the country. And every door is open to to you: large format digital labs, a digital fabrication lab, wood, ceramic and metal facilities to support your practice.

Centered around a glass-roofed atrium of our main building are galleries and common spaces: the Mediatheque theater for projection and performance; an elegant library; the New Commons flex space which hosts exhibitions, conferences, projects, and events; plus six floors of classrooms, labs, and studios.

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The programs of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art celebrate and support the development of experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative creative practices through meaningful faculty-student relationships, engaging seminars, and mentor-guided studio practice.

Students conduct original research and develop new ideas under the guidance of supportive arts professionals whose expertise is specifically attuned to the students’ areas of interest. These mentors work closely with students, individualizing their approach and acting as advocates, critics, and colleagues while encouraging students to continually broaden and deepen their critical investigations through research, experimentation, and exploration.

This is an education that nurtures strong, intelligent, and motivated creative professionals who actively engage to create the kind of world they want to inhabit.

LOW-RESIDENCY MFA IN VISUAL STUDIESMFA IN APPLIED CRAFT + DESIGN (offered jointly with Oregon College of Art and Craft)

MA IN CRITICAL STUDIESMFA IN COLLABORATIVE DESIGNMFA IN PRINT MEDIAMFA IN VISUAL STUDIES

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PACIFICNORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ARTPacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) empowers artists and designers to reimagine what art and design can do in the world. Founded in 1909 in Portland, Oregon, PNCA offers ten Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) degrees, six graduate degrees including Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees, a Post-Baccalaureate residency, and a range of Community Education programs for adults and youth.

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2017. PRODUCED BY PNCA OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN. DESIGNERS: DAVID ROOS AND MATTHEW BOWERS. COVER ART: KYLE BROWNE

ACCREDITATIONPacific Northwest College of Art is a co-educational, non denominational, independent college, providing professional education in the visual arts and granting the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Fine Arts degrees. It is the oldest independent college of art in the Pacific Northwest. PNCA is an accredited institutional member of both the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The Council on Postsecondary Education and the U.S. Department of Education recognize both institutional accrediting bodies. PNCA is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (aicad.org).

NONPROFIT STATEMENTPNCA is a nonprofit corporation authorized by the State of Oregon to offer and confer the academic degrees described herein, following a determination that state academic standards will be satisfied under OAR 583-030. Inquiries concerning the standards of school compliance may be directed to the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization, 1500 Valley River Drive, Suite 100, Eugene, Oregon 97401.

NONDISCRIMINATION POLICYPNCA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, physical disability, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs. The college admits qualified individuals without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, physical disability, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin, to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.

ADMISSIONSPNCA accepts competitive candidates representing a wide range of disciplines and distinctly diverse backgrounds. Details regarding specific application requirements for each program can be found at pnca.edu/grad/apply. All materials must be received by the applicable deadline to be considered for admission. Interviews take place roughly one month after the admissions deadline for each program. Applicants may apply for only one graduate program. All accepted candidates must submit a $350 tuition deposit to secure enrollment and eligibility for class registration.

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FINANCIAL AIDGraduate 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 merit scholarship funds, which are awarded based on the strength of the application. There is no separate application for scholarships.

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VISITING THE CAMPUS Graduate tours are by appointment only. Please call 503.821.8972 or email ADMISSIONS@PNCA.EDU to schedule a campus visit and learn more about our graduate offerings.

APPLICATIONDEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1

Application formApplication Fee $65ResumeTwo letters of recommendationOfficial transcript from the institution granting applicant’s bachelor’s degreeProposal essayPortfolio with image index

Application requirements vary by program. Please see pnca.edu/grad/apply for specific requirements.

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