Highlights

In the close-knit community of PNCA, academic and student services are personalized. Students can take advantage of academic advising, housing services, and career services; they can also investigate study abroad and student opportunities at other art colleges. Personal counseling is offered, with special workshops focusing on issues like life transitions and coping with stress.

As a PNCA student, youll belong to an active community of artists with the opportunity to exhibit your work in numerous campus galleries, participate in collaborative installations, and host opening receptions for your shows. Students can study abroad, travel, or join campus activities from yoga classes to art clubs.

As an active student you may find yourself on a trip to Seattle museums, at a design conference in Canada, or at a Native American printmaking seminar in Eastern Oregon. Field trips may take you kayaking on the Willamette River, painting on Sauvie Island, or to numerous artist studios and galleries. Perhaps youll take an intensive workshop with a renowned visiting artist or create coursework for offsite exhibition, such as recent projects showing inter-media work at a vacant apartment complex and broadcasting student audio work on the radio.

Student activities and organizations include Student Council, Print Club, Focus Group, Open Figure Drawing, and leadership meetings. Yoga classes are held regularly, and students gather for broom hockey at Lloyd Center ice rink. The Student Art Promotion Group will put you behind the scenes of curating, promoting, and understanding the exhibition of art. As one student puts it, involvement in Print Club brings her "absolute joy."

If you prefer to make your own way outside of established programs, PNCAs supportive environment will help you develop your initiative and leadership capabilities. Students have formed discussion groups, film nights, drawing sessions, and other groups to match their interests.

Student Exhibition Opportunities:
- BFA Gallery
- Higgins Gallery
- Stevens Studios
- Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery
- Interactive Media Arts Gallery
- Annual BFA Juried Exhibition
- Visage Window display
- Lunchtime Series
- Annual Senior Exhibition
- Holiday Art Sale
- Mezzanine Critique & Commons spaces
- PNCA website
- In Flux
- Gallery 214

University Attributes

Study at a college that provides professional and quality education in Portland. Pacific Northwest College of Art is the leader in innovative educational programs that connect students to a global perspective in the visual arts and design. In addition to its nine Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, PNCA offers graduate education with an MFA in Applied Craft and Design developed in collaboration with the Oregon College of Art and Craft, an MFA in Collaborative Design, an MFA in Visual Studies and a Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies.

PNCA is actively involved in Portlands cultural life through exhibitions and a vibrant public program of lectures and internationally recognized visiting artists, designers and creative thinkers. With the support of FIVE (Ford Institute for Visual Education), the College has a partnership with the nationally acclaimed Museum of Contemporary Craft.

Degrees Available

• Masters of Fine Arts
• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• Diploma/Certification

Subject Areas

• Art/fine Arts
• Design
• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture

Experience Required

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Pacific Northwest College of Art's Mission Statement

Pacific Northwest College of Art prepares students for a life of creative practice.