Announcing Pacific Northwest College of Art's 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition!
The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art is thrilled to announce the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition!
Join us at PNCA for First Thursday festivities!
First Thursday is a free, public event that has been a Portland tradition since 1996. Every First Thursday of the month, PNCA invites the public to join us in celebrating art, joy and community through expanded public programming including exhibitions, music, performances, artist-led special events and more. PNCA also works with our neighbors to coordinate a wider network of art-centered First Thursday activities throughout the North Park Blocks in galleries, arts organizations, businesses and more.
All Events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Visiting Artist Lecture Series
We are thrilled to announce PNCA’s 2023-24 Visiting Artist Lecture Series!
PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and Center for Contemporary Art & Culture welcomes prominent artists, scholars, designers, curators, and critics from around the country and beyond, to engage with the Portland arts community.
View the student orientations schedules here
Highlights
Graduate Symposium 2023: Art and Social Consciousness
PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and Center for Contemporary Art & Culture are thrilled to announce the 2023 Graduate Symposium!
Learn DetailsUNLIMITED 2023 Alumni Salon Show
Welcome to UNLIMITED 2023, PNCA’s 6th annual alumni salon show. This open call show includes work by PNCA alumni artists and designers across a range of media and film.
View Gallery2023 LRVS Thesis Exhibition
Pacific Northwest College of Art proudly presents the 2023 LRVS Thesis Exhibition.
View Gallery2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Pacific Northwest College of Art proudly presents the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
View Gallery2023 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Pacific Northwest College of Art proudly presents the 2023 BFA Thesis Exhibition.
View GalleryUndergraduate Viewbook
Eleven undergraduate programs, endless possibilities.
View our undergraduate viewbook online and learn all about PNCA and our programs.
Online ViewbookGraduate Viewbook
Experimental. Interdisciplinary. Collaborative.
View the graduate viewbook online and learn about the MFA/MA programs of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies.
Online ViewbookA Creative Mind
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Special Programs
Special Programs offer a range of expanded learning opportunities for students and the community.
These include projects, workshops, and intensives in applied art and design in the realms of environmental science, technology, science and tech pedagogy, and industrial design. Programs also include a variety of international studies opportunities, an artist residency, and a professional print publishing studio.