CLOWN DOWN opens with Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi (Anthony Hudson) being crushed by a new cabinet after she fails to mount it to the wall.

PNCA Admissions Counselors will be reviewing portfolios of prospective students at National Portfolio Days across the country.

Come meet us!

NCA Admissions Counselors will be reviewing portfolios of prospective students at National Portfolio Days across the country.

Come meet us!

PNCA Admissions Counselors will be reviewing portfolios of prospective students at National Portfolio Days across the country.

Come meet us!

CLOWN DOWN opens with Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi (Anthony Hudson) being crushed by a new cabinet after she fails to mount it to the wall.

PNCA Admissions Counselors will be reviewing portfolios of prospective students at National Portfolio Days across the country.

Come meet us!

PNCA Admissions Counselors will be reviewing portfolios of prospective students at National Portfolio Days across the country.

Come meet us!

CLOWN DOWN opens with Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi (Anthony Hudson) being crushed by a new cabinet after she fails to mount it to the wall.

The MFA in Applied Craft + Design and Visual Studies programs are excited to welcome Josh Faught to present a public lecture on his work and research as part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series.

Daniel Tucker will give a talk at PNCA in connection with the Center of Contemporary Art & Culture exhibition Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, which Tucker organized.

A free, full-day interdisciplinary symposium to promote dialog on the interplay of environmentalism, social justice, design, education, and the arts.

Scholars, activists, educators, designers and artists working on environmental justice issues will explore the politics surrounding systemic biases and the ways that environmental degradation and climate change intersect with race, gender, and class to create disproportionate outcomes on both a local and global scale.

The day’s agenda will place art and design at the center of these conversations, investigating how creative practices contribute to community and global struggles for environmental justice.

The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies is excited to welcome CA Conrad for a (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop as part of the 2019 Graduate Symposium: Art + Environmental Justice.

The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies is excited to welcome Macarena Gómez-Barris to present a public lecture on her work and research as part of the 2019 Graduate Symposium: Art and Environmental Justice.

Join the MFA Applied Craft + Design cohorts on December 5th, from 6-9pm for their premiere Mid-Year Showcase at the PNCA Glass Building!

Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, PNCA’s BFA Design Arts, and MFA in Collaborative Design/MA Design Systems are excited to welcome Rosten Woo to PNCA for a talk on their work and practice in conjunction with his inclusion in the Organize Your Own exhibition.

As part of PNCA’s MFA in Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems Design Futures Lecture Series, we proudly present an evening lecture with Dana Ghazi; a scholar and practitioner with a diverse background and passion for international politics and global human rights issues, specifically women’s rights and leadership.

Learn about the PNCA experience at our undergraduate Open House