Spring 2009 PNCA Faculty
* = full time
Brian Acevedo
Assistant Professor in Communication Design
MFA 2001 Cranbrook Academy of Art (2D Design)
BFA 1998 Oregon State University (Graphic Design)
Brian Acevedo is a multi-disciplinary designer working in both the commercial and artistic realms. Acevedo is co-owner/co-creative director of Incubate, a design studio in Portland, Oregon. Incubate is a collaboration of artists, designers and directors that work nationally and internationally in a broad range of mediums for clients such as Nike, Trek, Apple, Nau, Intel, Adidas, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Microsoft and many others.
The studio is unwed to conventional or expected results and strives to produce engaging and experiential stories. Prior to Incubate, Acevedo received his BFA from Oregon State University and his MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. At Cranbrook, he developed a body of work that explored and revolved around investigating the moments of uncertainty that reside within man’s relationship to and perception of speed. Acevedo currently teaches at PNCA in Portland, OR and has taught at Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. Outside of the studio and teaching environment, Acevedo also participates internationally in gallery shows and publications.
Recent displays of his work include: DPI at the Kellog Art Gallery, Streaming; Motion Graphics Today, University of Alabama; The Remedi Project-Issue#10; Output 04. His work has been published in HOW Magazine, ID Magazine, Lurzer’s International Archive Magazine and Victionary. He is an Assistant Professor in Communication Design.
Abra Ancliffe
Instructor in Foundation, Printmaking
MFA 2005 Tyler School of Art, Temple University (Printmaking)
BFA 2003 Pacific Northwest Collegeof Art (Printmaking)
BA 1998 Lewis & Clark College (English Literature)
Abra Ancliffe is an artist working primarily in printmaking and drawing. She is interested in translations of translations, possible tunnels, language shaped by architecture and how many spaces make up a novel. She is currently working on an American to Icelandic dictionary and discovering the history of a lost elementary school in Albuquerque. Ancliffe will be traveling to Iceland soon to help set up a letterpress studio and to catalogue the communications between deceased telegraphers. She teaches in the Foundation Department and Continuing Education Program at PNCA.
Adam Arola
Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts
BA 2002 University of Michigan (Philosophy)
MA 2006 University of Oregon (Philosophy)
PhD 2008 University of Oregon (Philosophy)
Hayley Barker
Instructor in Intermedia
MAT 2007 Lewis & Clark College (Art Education)
MFA 2001 University of Iowa (Intermedia)
MA 2000 University of Iowa (Intermedia)
BA 1996 University of Oregon (Fine Arts)
Gordon Barnes
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2007 Portland State University (Interdisciplinary)
BFA 2005 Sonoma State University (Printmaking)
Gordon Barnes works in a variety of media including drawing, video, photography, installation and sculpture. He received his BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University and his MFA from Portland State University. He has been featured in small West Coast venues for the last 10 years, and recently participated in a show at the University of Ulsan In South Korea. His work is composed of individual pieces that are best described as sculpture, but are actually complex compositions of obsessive drawings layered with altered photographs and found objects. Barnes also creates improvisational installations that are equally profound and humorous. His interests include, police sketches, riding the bus and the essays of Michel De Montaigne.
* Rose Bond
Assistant Professor in Foundation, Intermedia
MFA 1990 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Experimental Filmmaking)
MS 1976 Portland State University (Education)
BA 1971 Portland State University (Drawing and Painting)
Canadian-born media artist Rose Bond has been honored with numerous awards and fellowships from such prestigious agencies as the American Film Institute, The Princess Grace Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has created large-scale, site-specific installations for a number of locations, including Gates of Light (sponsored by Bloomberg) at the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on New York’s Lower East Side. Her 2-D composite animation, Memoria Mortalis, was screened in competition at Sundance 2001 and toured nationally with the Ann Arbor Experimental Film winners. Bond’s hand-drawn (direct animation) films are held in the Film Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She currently serves as an artistic advisor for the first international call for animated installations as a part of the inaugural Platform International Animation Festival. Bond received her BA from Portland State University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor in Foundation and Intermedia.
Emily Bosanquet
Instructor in Natural Science
MESM 2002 University of California, Santa Barbara (Environmental Science and Management)
BS 2000 University of Edinburgh (Geology) (Honors)
Emily Bosanquet is an interdisciplinary scientist, integrating economics, law and public policy into the field of environmental science. Bosanquet has worked for Greenpeace, the Environmental Protection Agency as an independent researcher, and in community-supported natural resource management with non-profit groups in Southeast Asia. She has also worked as a geologist for the Geological Survey of Western Australia and for the Chilean National Copper Company in South America.
Thesis work includes creating mitigation strategies for the Casmalia Wetland, commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as a six-week fieldwork project mapping the geology of the Lennard River George, Northwest Australia.
Awards include the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation International Affairs Internship and the Bren Academic Fellowship. Bosanquet is also a contributing author of the Participatory Rural Appraisal for Community Forest Management Tools and Techniques, Asia Forest Network, (January 2002) and a contributing geologist on three map publications, (USWA, 1999).
Bosanquet also runs an organic catering business, tends her 10 chickens and wrestles with her two little boys.
Joseph Bradshaw
Instructor in Liberal Arts
MFA 2008 Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa (English/Creative Writing)
BA 2005 Portland State University (English)
Jennifer Brinkman
Instructor in Photography
BS 1987 Illinois State University (Visual Communications and Photography)
Jennifer Brinkman is an Oregon-based photographer with a passion for capturing the character of both people and the landscape they inhabit. For the last 15 years, she has worked as both a documentary as well as commercial photographer.
Professionally, her photographs have been published in catalogues, brochures, magazines and books. Her images have shown at Lower Columbia Art College, The Japanese Gardens, Gallery 312 in Chicago, Illinois, and her North Portland studio. She is the recipient of the Silver Summit Award for work she did with PacifCorp in 2001 and her clients include: The Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association, 1999; The Chicago Tribune, 1995-1998; Oregon Home Magazine, 2002-present; Sustainable Industries Journal, 2001-present; Association Management Magazine, 2003; The Oregonian
newspaper, 1999-2006; Minnesota Magazine, 2005; Realtor Magazine, 2004-2005; Northwest Energy Alliance, 2005-present; Washington State Libraries, 2005-present; Veterinary Forum Magazine, 2006; Oregon Health & Science University, 2006.
Kate Casprowiak
Instructor in Art History
MA 2008 University of Oregon (Art History)
MA 2007 Sotheby's Institute of Art London (Fine and Decorative Art)
BA 2004 University of Oregon (Art History major, History minor)
Sally Cleveland
Assistant Professor in Drawing, Foundation, Painting
BFA 1981 PNCA (Painting)
Sally Cleveland is a painter interested in a poetic investigation of the Pacific Northwest landscape. Cleveland’s 2005 exhibition, Facing West/Other Portland Streets at Augen Gallery, concentrated on the often forgotten and unnoticed industrial site. Cleveland is represented by Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon and has exhibited regionally and nationally with galleries and museums including Davidson Gallery in Seattle, Washington; Hiddell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina; Asheville Museum of Fine Art, Asheville, North Carolina; Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York and the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington where she was included in the 8th Northwest Biennale. Cleveland received her BFA from PNCA. She is an Assistant Professor in the Painting Department where she has taught since 1985.
scleveland [at] pnca [dot] edu
* Tracey Cockrell
Foundation Department Chair
Associate Professor in Foundation
MFA 1991 University of California, Berkeley (Sculpture)
Post-Baccalaureate studies 1986-1988 Virginia Commonwealth University (Sculpture)
BA 1986 College of William and Mary (Fine Arts)
Kate Copeland
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2006 Rhode Island School of Design (Printmaking) (Honor Student)
Teaching Certificate 2006 Brown University Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
BA 2000 Macalester College (Studio Art Major, German Studies Minor) (Magna Cum Laude, Art Department Honors)
Joseph Cross
Instructor in Illustration
BFA 2001 Academy of Art University (Traditional Illustration)
Chad Crowe
Instructor, Illustration
BA 1999 Western Washington University (Political Science), Cum Laude
BA 2006 Portland State University, Fine Art (Painting)
Nan Curtis
Assistant Professor in Foundation and Sculpture
MFA 1991 University of Cincinnati (Sculpture)
BFA 1988 The College of Wooster (Sculpture)
Nan Curtis is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living in Portland, Oregon. Curtis’ recent work uncovers notions about home and family, from the unusual to the banal. Curtis has exhibited both nationally and internationally including DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, ConsolidatedWorks, Seattle, Washington, FAARM Gallery, Philadelphia, Nottdance Festival with RSDS, Nottingham, England, Melbourne Art Center with RSDS, Melbourne, Australia and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Curtis is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She was the Feldman Gallery + Project Space Curator and Director at the Pacific Northwest College of Art from 2000-2006 and has initiated numerous independent curating projects in the Northwest. She Chaired and taught in the sculpture department at PNCA for 12 years. Curtis received her BA from the College of Wooster and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati.
Zackery Denfeld
Instructor in Foundation, Liberal Arts
MFA 2007 University of Michigan, School of Art & Design (Postdisciplinary Program)
BA 2004 Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Affairs (Policy Studies)
Carl Diehl
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2007 University of Oregon (Digital Art)
BFA 2000 Syracuse University (Art Video)
As an artist living and working in Portland, Diehl’s creative practice ranges from single-channel video to live media art performance, from installation, to graphic design and curatorial pursuits. Diehl received his BFA in Art Video from Syracuse University in 2000 and his MFA in Digital Art from University of Oregon in 2007.
With an on-going interest in the audio-visual vocabularies inherent to electronic and digital media, Diehl is particularly fascinated by the curious gestures of malfunction. Recent projects metaphorically explore errors, glitches and obsolete media as “missing links” in techno cultural evolution.
Diehl has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Cine-Cycle in Toronto, Other Cinema and Studio 27 in San Francisco, the PDX Festival and TILT Gallery and Project Space in Portland. “BYOTV,” a collaborative project designed with Jesse England and Mack McFarland was awarded funding for exhibition in the New American Art Union’s Couture 08 Series. In the summer of 2008, Diehl will give a presentation on his recent projects at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Singapore.
Since 2002, he has organized and curated “Rhythm from Wreckage,” a traveling series of experimental animation and performance. Recent curatorial projects include media art showcases at Portland’s Rererato Art Space and Eugene’s LumpWest gallery.
* Modou Dieng
Assistant Professor in Drawing, Painting
MFA 2006 San Francisco Art Institute
BFA 1995 Ecole National des Beaux-Arts, Senegal
Modou Dieng is a multidisciplinary artist working in mixed media, painting, photography and installation. Dieng’s interests lie in conceptualizing visions of contemporary life constituted by a mix of humanity, topography and pastiche of forms.
Dieng evokes a city’s continuously changing facade, as well as its hybrid character and eclectic combination. His work deals with urban history, race, social status, gender, cosmopolitanism and belonging. Modou Dieng has exhibited with numerous galleries and museums including: Steve Turner Gallery (Los Angeles), Pascal Polar Gallery (Brussels), Dakar Biennale, Carousel du Louvre (Paris), Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Umass Boston,Museum of Contemporary African and Diaspora Art (NY), Casa Encendida (Madrid). Dieng has conducted workshops and conferences at several institutions including: Brown University, University of West Florida, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Brussels), The Fire Station (Dublin), Denison University and Ohio University. He is the founder and curator of Worksound Gallery (Portland) and received his BA from Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Senegal and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.
Trevor Dodge
Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts
MA 1998 Illinois State University
BA 1995 University of Idaho
Born amidst the sad cartoon of Nixon’s America and Evel Knievel’s ill-fated jump across the Snake River Canyon, Trevor Dodge spent big chunks of his childhood listening to Jackson 5 and Journey records. Everything was going fine until his next-door neighbor brought over Queen’s News of the World album; the cover art depicted a massive robot squishing people between its fingers. Needless to say, twenty years of nightmares started immediately. He has taught courses in literature, writing and cultural studies at: Illinois State University, the College of Southern Idaho, Boise State University, Portland Community College, Clark College, Marylhurst University, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He now teaches full-time at Clackamas Community College and is also an associate editor of Clackamas Literary Review. His novella, Yellow #10, was published in 2003 by Eraserhead Press. Chiasmus Press recently published his first collection of short fiction, Everyone I Know Lives On Roads.
Monica Drake-Alonso
Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts
MFA 1994 University of Arizona (Creative Writing)
BA 1988 Portland State University (General Studies)
Monica Drake-Alonso has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches at the Pacific NW College of Art. She is a contributor of reviews and articles to The Oregonian, The Stranger, and the Portland Mercury. Her fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Review, The Threepenny Review, The Insomniac Reader and others. She has been the recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Award, the Alligator Juniper Prize in Fiction, and a Millay Colony Fellowship, and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her debut Novel, Clown Girl, is published by Hawthorne Books.
Daniel Duford
Instructor in Advanced Studios, Illustration, Intermedia, Sculpture
BFA 1996 University of New Mexico (Studio Art)
Daniel Duford is an artist and writer. His current work is a meditation on the difference between strength and power and the presence of myth in the mundane. His sculptures and drawings have been exhibited in national galleries including: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia; Zocalo Gallery, Santa Fe; The Albuquerque Art Museum; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s A Lot series and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University. Daniel’s illustration and comic work has appeared in Tin House Magazine and in the self-published titles The Green Man of B Street and We Are on Our Mind (with C. Hollow). His writing has appeared in Artweek, ARTnews, The Organ, The Bear Deluxe, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Technical and Ceramics Art and Perception. Daniel has a BFA from the University of New Mexico. He is an Instructor in the Intermedia and Illustration Departments at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
David Eckard
Instructor Intermedia and Sculpture,
On leave SP09
BFA 1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Sculpture)
David Eckard is an artist, performer and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Through objects, drawings, installations and performative interventions, Eckard investigates conditions of masculinity, endurance, authority, and absurdity. His work has been exhibited internationally and has been written about and reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, Artnews and Sculpture. Solo shows include: Kim Foster Gallery, New York; Fassbender Gallery, Chicago; Consolidated Works, Seattle and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland. Eckard was a Jurors Award recipient at the 2006 Oregon Biennial. He performed at PICA’s TBA Festival in 2004 and 2006 and for New Works Northwest at On The Boards, Seattle in 2005. Eckard received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eckard is Chair of the Sculpture Department and an Instructor in the Foundation and Intermedia Departments.
Norman Eder
Associate Professor in Liberal Arts
Ph.D. 1980 University of Illinois (Modern European History)
MA 1975 Portland State University (Modern European History)
BA 1973 University of Puget Sound (History)
Libby Farr
Associate Professor in Art History
Ph.D. University of Oregon (Art & Architectural History)
MALS Reed College (Art History)
BA University of Oregon (English)
Libby Dawson Farr, Ph.D., is an art and architecture historian, whose main area of scholarship is the architectural career of the late Pietro Belluschi, FAIA (1899-1994), who originated the Northwest Style of Architecture. She writes exhibition catalogues for museums and galleries exhibiting his original drawings and conceptual designs; visits his archives, which are housed at Syracuse University’s Bird Library in the Belluschi Collection and consults with architects who are remodeling and updating his buildings throughout the country. Farr is often asked to write about other buildings which are being nominated for City of Portland Landmark status, part of the National Register of Historic Places, U.S. Park Service.
Farr has taught at Lewis & Clark College and presently teaches History of Architecture at Marylhurst University and History of Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She has a B.A. from the University of Oregon in English; a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Reed College, based in art and architecture history and a Ph.D., in Architecture History from the University of Oregon.
Anna Fidler
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2005 Portland State University (Studio Art)
BFA 1995 Western Michigan University (Painting)
Martin French
Illustration Program Chair
Assistant Professor in Illustration
BFA 1983 ArtCenter College of Design (Illustration)
Martin French lives and works in Oregon, splitting time between Portland and the high desert plateau of the Cascade Mountains. A native of California, French graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has been illustrating full-time since 1996. His diverse body of work ranges from outdoor murals on the campus of a home for street kids in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to signage and graphics for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, along with theater posters for the Fiddler on the Roof and portraits of Green Day for the Grammy Awards. French’s clients are among the top institutions, magazines and publishers throughout North America and Europe. He has received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators, New York and a Bronze Medal from the Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, along with numerous awards of excellence from premier juried shows in the United States. Several publications have profiled Martin’s work including: Communication Arts (2003), Illustrator Illuminated (2003) and Step by Step Magazine (2000). French has lectured at colleges and universities nationwide and is currently an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Illustration Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
Eric Fruits
Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts
BS 1990 Indiana University (Business, Economics & Public Policy) with Distinction
MA 1993 Claremont Graduate University (Economics)
PhD 1997 Claremont Graduate University (Economics)
Chris Gander
Assistant Professor in Sculpture
BFA 1986 PNCA (Sculpture)
Northwest native sculptor Chris Gander received his BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1986 and has taught at PNCA since 1992. He has also taught at Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France. Gander explores illusion and spatial relationships with minimal line and form. His work was included in the Portland Art Museum’s Oregon Biennial in 1991 and 1995, and in the Big Objects Invitational at the Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, in 1991. Other Northwest exhibitions include: the Portland Art Museum, Coos Art Museum in Oregon and Bumbershoot in Seattle. In 2006, his work was included in Convergence at the Tollhouse Art Center in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Gander’s worked is in various collections, including: Portland Art Museum; Harsch Investment Corporation and Winkler Development Company, Portland, Oregon; The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington and the Philip Morris Companies in New York. Gander is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
* Emily Ginsburg
Intermedia Department Chair
Associate Professor in Intermedia; MFA Graduate Critique Seminar
MFA 1991 Cranbrook Academy of Art (Printmaking)
BA 1986 Trinity College (Art History)
Emily Ginsburg was born in New York City. She received her BA in Art History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1986 and an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan in 1991.
As a conceptually based interdisciplinary artist, her work explores the relationship between physical, spoken and written evidence of behavioral patterns in the context of the everyday. Emily utilizes a broad range of media from works on paper to objects, critical presentations of multiples and interactive pieces involving video and sound. There is an emphasis on the idiosyncratic and the vernacular as a means to reflect on individual experience as collective experience.
Ginsburg has been awarded artist residencies in Florence, Italy and most recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in conjunction with an exhibition at A Gentil Carioca. Her work was included in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museo de Gravura de Curitiba, Brazil amongst others. She has received several project grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland, Oregon, and exhibits and lectures on her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been reviewed in the Oregonian, artUS, Artweek, and Art Papers. Ginsburg is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Intermedia Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
Catherine Glass
Assistant Professor in Natural Science
Ph.D. 2003 University of Illinois (Plant Biology and Systematics)
BS 1994 California Polytechnic State University (Ecology and Systematic Biology)
Catherine Glass is an educator and plant biologist with a strong background in Botany and Pacific Northwest plant ecology. Glass finds teaching science to art majors an exhilarating challenge and a continual work in progress. Before completing a doctorate in Plant Biology, Glass was a studio potter for 16 years in northern Nevada’s Great Basin. As a biologist, her professional interests include: systematics, evolution, ethnobotany, economic botany and local botany. She received her Ph.D. in Plant Biology in 2003 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a B.S. in Ecology and Systematic Biology in 1994 from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Glass also completed a systematic study of Costa Rican mimosoid legumes in 1996 through the University of Costa Rica, San Jose. Courses she has developed and is currently teaching at PNCA, OCAC and Portland State University are Pacific Northwest Plant Ecology and A History of Plants: Ethnobotany, Shamanism and Culture. Published works include: Glass, C. E. & D. S. Seigler, 2006, “A new combination in Senegalia and typification of six New World Acacia names”, Taxon 55 (4); Glass, C. E. 2003, “The Acacia berlandieri species group: Armed New World Members of Subgenus Aculeiferum (Fabaceae) North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico”, (Doctoral thesis). University of Illinois, Urbana.
Joan Handwerg
Associate Professor in Art History, Liberal Arts
Ph.D., ABD, 2002 University of British Columbia (Visual Art and Theory, Early Modern Print Culture and Theory)
MA 1994 Tufts University (Art and Art History) (with Honors)
Diploma 1991 University of Glasgow (Decorative Art History)
BA 1986 Colby College (History of Art)
Joan Handwerg studied modern art history at the University of British Columbia, where her thesis research focused on Mexican and American photography of the 1940s and 50s. While at UBC, she was twice awarded the Graduate Student Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Travel Grant and a Graduate Student Travel Award. Her research on Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was presented at the National Museum of Mexico and her article on his painting, Collective Suicide (1936) was published in Otras Rutas Hacia Siqueiros, a collection of essays on Siqueiros. Handwerg received her M.A. in art history is from Tufts University and a diploma in the history of decorative arts from the University of Glasgow.
Chelsea Heffner
Instructor, Painting
BFA 2005 Rhode Island School of Design, with Honors
MFA 2008 Pacific Northwest College of Art
Annie Heisey
Instructor in Illustration
MFA Painting / Boston University 2007
BFA Drawing & Painting / Pennsylvania State University 2003
BS Art Education / Pennsylvania State University 2003
Annie Heisey is an Instructor in the Illustration Department at PNCA. In 2005, she joined the MFA Painting program at Boston University, where she won the Freedman and Hamill Prize and was chosen as a finalist for the Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award. After graduating from Boston University with her MFA in May 2007, she was awarded a residency at Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat in Wyalusing, PA, as well as the Junior Artist in Residence position at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Heisey is a practicing representational figure artist working with oil and gouache mediums. Her work is in the private collections of Arthur Goldberg and Howard Hedinger. Reviews of her work have been featured in the Boston Globe as well as the Pittsburgh City Paper. Recent exhibitions include: Expulsion from Eden, 12 × 16 Gallery, Portland, OR Drawing the Line, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Magdalena Campos-Pons, Juror. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 97th Annual Juried Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Polly Apfelbaum, Juror. Boston Young Contemporary, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA Self-Entanglements, G.A.S.P. Gallery, Brookline, MA.
Kurt Hollomon
Instructor in Foundation, Illustration
1981-1983 Art Institute of Seattle
A teacher, illustrator, designer and former mountain climbing guide, Hollomon is a crafter of images, drawings, maps, and sketchbook journals to suit the needs of a diverse range of clients. His strengths include designing and art directing. His use of type and color and his drawing collages are key identifiers to his current working method. Hollomon is an Instructor in the Foundation and Illustration Departments at PNCA.
* Wei Hsueh
Associate Professor in Photography
MFA 1999 Syracuse University (Art Photography)
BFA 1995 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Photography and Filmmaking)
Degree 1991 World College of Journalism (Information Science)
Wei Hsueh is an interdisciplinary artist. Hsueh’s medium includes but is not limited to photography, installation and performance art. Her early work speaks about ways in which gender and ethnicity intersect with eroticism and power. Since 2000, Hsueh has expanded her exploration of ritual, death and religion. Hsueh was born and raised in Taiwan. She holds a BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA degree in Art Photography from Syracuse University. Hsueh’s work has been reviewed by numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Hsueh shows nationally and is represented by Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago. Hsueh joined PNCA as a full-time Associate Professor in the Photography Department in fall 2006.
Christopher Huizar
Instructor in Foundation, Intermedia
BFA 2003 Pacific Northwest College of Art (Sculpture)
Bethany Ides
Instructor in Foundation, Liberal Arts
MFA 2006 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (Writing)
1997 - 2001 Bard College (Philosophy, Theology, Writing)
Bethany Ides works in media that elucidates functions inherent to language; of metaphor: thing becoming thing; of annunciation, incarnation, embodiment, utterance; of the glyph or representative figure that both reveals and conceals; and, of irrevocability. Each of Ides’ pieces whether they arrive via video, book, internet, sound recording, transitional objects/implements, or live performance invoke a constellation between word, body, and site so that each element is called into the activation of “reading.”
Growing up outside Philadelphia, Ides attended Quaker school, cultivating a concentration for words carved out of air and light. Her undergraduate studies combined (non-doctrinal) theology and poetics, and led her to pursue performance as a means of enacting text in a connective context with Portland-based weekly experimental action group, AREA. She co-founded the journal FO (A) RM, a forum for interdisciplinary arts and research in 2002, and in 2006, co-directed/curated the Gilded Pony Performance Festival in Troy, NY. Ides’ solo performance work has been presented at venues such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art and PS122, and her poetic work has appeared widely in print and online periodicals such as Tarpaulin Sky, Octopus, Swerve, and The Brooklyn Rail. Author of three chapbooks, a fourth entitled “From Whence Undone” is forthcoming from Cosa Nostra Editions.
* Frank Irby
Sculpture Department Chair
Associate Professor in Foundation, Sculpture
MFA 1980 Alfred University (Ceramics)
BFA 1978 Memphis State University (Ceramics)
Although born in Arkansas, Frank Irby spent much of his youth as an “army brat” living in the Southern states and Okinawa with his family. After a stint as a business major, he followed his heart and completed the Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. For the past 25 years, he has invested his energy in teaching and mentoring students in a range of three-dimensional courses in the Sculpture Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art. After a severe accident with a table saw, his medium gradually shifted from clay to wood exclusively-a means to confront the injury. A sense of playfulness is often evident in his work, whether the focus is formalist or anthropomorphic. Equally atypical is the choice of materials; often Irby begins with a scrap bin fragment or a thrift store cast off. Irby is an Associate Professor in the Foundation and Sculpture Departments.
* Anne Johnson
Professor in Intermedia, Painting
MFA 1973 Portland State University (Painting)
BFA 1969 Portland State University (Painting)
Anne Griffin Johnson is a painter and digital printmaker. Her current work is an oblique exploration of map-making as fiction, as a set of tricks that we play on ourselves. Johnson has exhibited in the Northwest since 1973, with solo shows at the Fountain and Laura Russo galleries in Portland, and at the Lynn McAllister Gallery in Seattle; a two-person show at The Art Gym; invitational exhibitions at PCVA, Northwest Artist’s Workshop, Evergreen State College and Elizabeth Leach Gallery; and juried exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon Artists Under 35 and Paper Works. Outside the region she has participated in group shows at venues including Wade Gallery in Los Angeles, Ragdale Foundation (IL), A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), Oceanside Museum of Art (CA), American University of Rome, Nevada Art Museum, Blum Helman Soho, and Hillwood Art Gallery at Long Island University. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, City of Portland, State of Oregon and Portland State University. Her awards include a mural commission for the Justice Center in Portland, an exhibition in the Oregon Governor’s Office, a Western States Art Federation individual artist fellowship, an NEA travel grant, and a Ragdale Foundation fellowship. Her work can be seen in Edge Effect: Poems by Sandra McPherson (Wesleyan University Press, 1996) and Cross-Currents: 100 Drawings by Women (Hudson Hills Press, 1989), as well as in catalogs produced by The Art Gym, Fountain Gallery, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, WESTAF and the Nevada Art Museum. Johnson received her BFA and MFA from Portland State University. Johnson is a Professor in the Intermedia and Painting Departments at PNCA.
Yoshi Kitai
Instructor in Printmaking
MFA 2004 Washington University in St. Louis School of Art (Printmaking & Drawing)
BFA 2002 PNCA (Printmaking)
General Certificate 1999 Pierce College
Certificate Ceramics Tajimi 1988 Post-Secondary Ceramic School, Japan
Yoshihiro Kitai was born in 1969 in Osaka, Japan and moved to the United States in 1994. He studied and focused on ceramics before coming to the U.S. He received his BFA degree in Printmaking from PNCA in 2002 and his MFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. In his prints, Kitai mixes a Western style of abstraction and a Japanese style of metal leafing, conceptually focusing on his perspective as a foreigner in the United States. Kitai is represented by Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, Oregon and had a recent solo exhibition at the Portland Art Center. His works are in several public and private collections, including Oregon Health and Science University, the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center at the Portland Art Museum and Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington. Kitai’s art has been reviewed in several publications including: Willamette Week, Portland Mercury, Daily Vanguard, and West End Word. Kitai is an Instructor in the Foundation and Printmaking Departments at PNCA.
Linda Kliewer
Senior/Thesis Chair, PICA TBA@PNCA Coordinator
Assistant Professor in Intermedia
BFA 1976 University of Virginia (Studio Art)
Linda Kliewer is Senior/Thesis Chair and Assistant Professor in the Intermedia Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art and at Mount Hood Community College. Her passions are social documentary and teaching. Kliewer’s artwork is primarily self-portraiture and social comment. Her video art has been screened in the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Northwest Film and Video Festival and in New York and Europe. Her photos, included in the Visual Chronicle of Portland and in It’s Us: A Celebration of Who We Are in America Today (Time Warner Inc., traveling exhibit for the American Library Association (1996) have been published nationally and internationally. Kliewer was the first female TV news photographer in Virginia (1977), and the Regional Producer and Chief Cinematographer for the feature-length documentary Ballot Measure 9 (1992). This documentary won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival (1999). Kliewer received her BFA from the University of Virginia.
Ric Lanciotti
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2001 Savannah College of Art & Design (Media & Performing Arts, Emphasis Directing)
BFA 1999 Savannah College of Art & Design (Video and Film, Minor in Art History)
Ric Lanciotti is a multimedia artist and director of both film and theatre. He received his B.F.A. in Film and Video and his M.F.A. in Media and Performing Arts with an Emphasis in Stage Direction from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work usually deals with joy, the parallels between childhood and adulthood and an investigation into the ridiculous and the absurd. He believes that art should be accessible to as many people as possible and should leave the viewer changed in someway, however small. He has a strong interest in narrative structure and technology and has been trained in improvisation, and physical theater.
Lanciotti has shown work in Portland, Savannah, Maryland, Chicago, Scotland and Washington D.C. He was the recipient of a 4 Star review by the Scottsman at the Edinburg Fringe Festival as well as a winner in the 2002 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He was selected as one of the first students for Second City’s directorial class which culminated in a one month show at Second City’s Donny’s Skybox Theater. He currently resides in Portland, OR where he has just finished a run as co-owner of couch gallery. His last show had spectators dress up like a giant robot and other beasts and then destroy a foam-rubber replica of Portland.
Ric has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Evanston Art Center and Pacific Northwest College of Art. While in Chicago, Lanciotti also participated in various outreach educational programs for students from Elementary through High-school.
Horatio Hung-Yan Law
Assistant Professor in Intermedia, Photography
MFA 1993 Washington University (Printmaking)
Diploma 1985 Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts
BFA 1984 School of Visual Arts (Media Arts)
BA 1977 Johns Hopkins University (Natural Science)
Horatio Hung-Yan Law is an interdisciplinary artist. Law works with common cultural artifacts to explore inter-cultural communication and the complex relationship between individual and community. He was recently a visiting artist at the Austin Peay State University at Clarksville, Tennessee and was a visiting professor at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. His work has been reviewed in Artweek, Artlies, the Oregonian and Willamette Week. Law received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is an Assistant Professor at PNCA.
Horatio Hung-Yan Law was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents and moved to the US at the age of 16. With this multi-cultural background, he has developed an artistic practice whose subjects include the Chinese immigrant’s experience, reinterpretations of cultural icons, trans-cultural adoptions, the Iraq War and the current culture of consumption. His work often tackles weighty subjects with ephemeral and unexpected materials, creating quiet, conflicting, meditative and evocative works. In studio work, public art and community residencies, Law deploys common cultural artifacts to explore issues of identity, memory and the loss and gain of cross-cultural struggle in the evolving global community. Besides installation and studio work, he is also interested in public art and community residency. He is involved in making work that engages community and interacts with people from different backgrounds. He is attracted to public art’s potential to activate the complex and dynamic relationship between individuals and communities.
Ellen Lesperance
Assistant Professor in Foundation
MFA 1999 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Visual Arts)
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
BFA 1995 University of Washington (Painting)
* Matthew Letzelter
Assistant Professor in Foundation, Printmaking
MFA 2003 Pratt Institute (Printmaking)
BFA 1998 University of Florida, College of FIne Arts (Printmaking)
AA 1994 Santa Fe Community College (Biological Sciences)
Matthew Letzelter is a Portland, Oregon artist who primarily creates works on paper. He recently moved to Portland and is currently an Assistant Professor at PNCA in the Foundation Department and also works as an Artist-in-Residence in the Printmaking Department. He recently had a solo show at PNCA in the Special Exhibitions Gallery, as well as group shows at Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery in New London, New Hampshire, and Galerie Circulaire, Montreal, Quebec. Prior to moving to Portland, Letzelter was the Master Printer at Stinger Editions (Concordia University) and Visiting Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he taught at the graduate and undergraduate level in Print Media, while also focusing research on digital print mediums. Before moving to Canada, Letzelter worked for Derriere L’Etoile Studio in New York City as a professional fine art printer. During his time at Derriere L’Etoile, he collaborated on many large-scale projects including: Raymond Pettibon’s 72-page, limited edition lithographic book Plots on Loan; James Rosenquist’s lithograph Stars and Stripes at the Speed of Light for the US Embassy/State Department Art Program, as well as numerous printed editions for international galleries, museums and artists. While living in New York City, he also worked for Petersburg Press and Suitcase Press. Letzelter received his MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2003) and his BFA from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, (1998).
Victor Maldonado
Instructor in Intermedia, Painting, Professional Practices
MFA 2005 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Painting and Drawing)
BFA 2000 California College of Arts and Crafts (Painting and Drawing)
Study Abroad Program 1998 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rennes
Victor Maldonado explores the Mexican migrant experience in America. Working from his personal heritage and using his contemporary aesthetic, Maldonado creates images that delicately balance humor with pointed cultural commentary. His paintings, prints and videos mix the iconography of consumer advertising, agriculture and industrial manufacturing to create visual symbols of our shared environments. Maldonado is represented by Froelick Gallery. His work was recently included in Building Tradition: Contemporary Art from Tacoma Art Museum at the Whatcom Museum (WA), and in Contemporary Baroque at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL). His work is in the permanent collections of Perkins Coie LLP and the Tacoma Art Museum. Currently, he works as Exhibitions Coordinator for Froelick Gallery, teaches Professional Practices at Pacific Northwest College of Art, writes as a freelance arts reporter for PDX Magazine and was the juror for Portland Modern #5. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bob Martin
Associate Professor in Liberal Arts, Thesis Research & Writing
ABD 1982 Purdue University
MA 1977 Portland State University
BA 1971 Kentucky Wesleyan College
Pete McCracken
Instructor in Communication Design
BFA 1995 Pacific Northwest College of Art
Pete McCracken is an artist, musician, art director/designer and educator living in Portland, Oregon. He owns and operates two complimentary businesses, Crack Press Art + Music, a letterpress/silkscreen studio publishing his own and other artist’s work and Plazmfonts Brand + Typeface Design, a design studio that specializes in creating type and graphics for advertising and brand awareness campaigns. His clients include Dr. Martens, Starbucks, Nike, Adidas, Target and several Portland advertising/design firms wieden+kennedy, Cinco Design, Ziba and the Great Society.
Currently, McCracken teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art and has lead efforts in creating endowed scholarships and also directed artist lectures and visits by Alfredo Jaar, Shawn Wolfe and Modern Dog. McCracken also balances his workload with projects for non-profit groups, including PICA, Bitch Magazine, and the Rebuilding Center.
Pete also sings in his band The West which performs in and around Portland and is planning a 2008 release of their first album. Pete’s work has been featured in books and magazines, including: Print, IDEA, Eye, Novuum, Fast Company, Communications Arts, U&lc and Creativity. His visionary art direction of 15 years of type and design for Plazm magazine, for which he was creative director and owner, has been featured in design books and is part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art permanent collection.
Kim McKenna
Instructor in Foundation
MAT 1999 Lewis & Clark College
Post Baccalaureate 1994 The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
BFA 1992 The Hartford Art School (Printmaking)
Kim McKenna explores the idea of image construction and her work attempts to reveal, in perhaps an oblique manner, the fakery of painting. Much like film or stage sets, her paintings ask viewers to temporarily become willing participants in the creation of contextual reality. Referencing domestic architecture, 20th century disasters, and iconic art historical images, the paintings hold in tension the competing notions of what is real versus what is artificial and reveal the disintegration of the barrier between the public and the private.
McKenna has exhibited regionally at Gallery 500, ArtCentric (Corvallis), Chemeketa Community College, PICA, NAAU, Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art, and Beppu Wiarda Gallery where she is currently represented. Her work has been
reviewed in the Mercury, Willamette Week, and the Oregonian. She has received juror’s awards from local art world luminaries Charles Froelick, Elizabeth
Leach, and Sara Meigs. She is the recipient of a Colville Foundation Grant.
McKenna, with her husband Mark Brandau, owns and operates Radius Community Arts Studios and teaches in the foundation department of PNCA. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School, studied post-baccalaureate at the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and received her MAT from Lewis
and Clark College.
Paul Missal
Professor in Illustration, Painting
MFA 1967 Yale University
BFA 1965 Cleveland Institute of Art
A painter and founding member of Blackfish Gallery, one of the nation’s oldest continuously running cooperative galleries, Missal has taught painting, drawing and design at PNCA since 1972 and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. Classes he contributed curriculum to include: The Costumed Figure (Drawing and Painting), Observational Painting, The Narrative in Art (a studio survey) and Techniques of the Old Masters. Outside of his teaching responsibilities, he maintains an active studio practice while showing in numerous regional one person shows. Missal also paints many official portrait commissions, including the official state portrait of Governor Bob Straub, four of the deans of OHSU, and Dr. Chenowith of the Devers Eye Clinic at Good Samaritan Hospital. Currently, he is working on a portrait of retiring OHSU President Peter O. Kohler. In addition, Missal has painted numerous murals locally, nationally and internationally, in private residences and for companies and hotels such as The Benson Hotel and the Imperial Hotel, Portland; the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong and Bangkok; and the Hilton Hotel, Hong Kong. A recent commission was a painting for the web site for Evolving Life Ministry, a global New Thought Church. Missal received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his MFA from Yale. He is a Professor in Drawing, Illustration and Painting at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Steven Mitchell
Instructor in Illustration
MA Multnomah Biblical Seminary
BA Art Center College of Design
Daniela Molnar
Instructor in Illustration
MA 2006 University of California at Santa Cruz (Science Illustration)
BA 2000 The Evergreen State College (Art and Environmental Studies)
Paul Montone
Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts
MA 2000 Portland State University (English)
BA 1993 University of Oregon (English)
Paul Montone, a native Oregonian, has spent the majority of his life pursuing music and writing. In 2003 after a year of working, writing and traveling in Japan he moved to Los Angeles to work in the music industry. There he co-managed the careers of The White Stripes, The Shins, The Raconteurs, and Autolux. Montone has recently returned to Portland to pursue teaching and fiction writing. In his spare time, he is a contributing writer to Your Flesh, an on-line periodical. He also co-operates Discourage Records, a small press, independent record label. He teaches at Portland State University, Portland Community College and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
* Bill Moore
Professor in Foundation, Sculpture
MFA 1971 University of Michigan
BS 1967 University of Michigan
William Moore received his BS in Design from the University of Michigan in 1967 and his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Michigan in 1971. In 1972, Moore moved to Oregon to teach at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art). Moore had his first solo show at the Wentz Gallery in 1974, followed by group shows at the University of Oregon and the Portland Art Museum. Later, he would have solo exhibits of his wood constructions at Contemporary Crafts Gallery in 1978, Blackfish Gallery in 1981 and 1985, Fairbanks Hall at Oregon State University in 1984 and Laura Russo Gallery twice during the 90’s.
Since the 1990’s Moore has found a national audience for his work with exhibitions in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Charlotte, NC and Los Angeles. His work in private collections is included in the Oakland Museum of Art, Detroit Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of American Craft in New York City. Moore’s work has been reviewed by the New York Times, and has also been part of top wood artists in America at SOFA Chicago.
For many years, Moore was the Chair of the Sculpture Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and remains the professor with the longest full time teaching tenure at the college. Moore continues to exhibit his work at various shows around the country. His work will be included in the exhibit of a private collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the fall of 2007.
Jenene Nagy
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2004 University of Oregon
Graduate Certificate 2004 University of Oregon (Non-Profit Management)
BFA 1998 University of Arizona (Cum Laude and Honors)
Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Blurring the boundaries of painting, sculpture and installation, Nagy’s work aims to simultaneously reference where we are and where we wish we could be. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues including: arthouse in Austin, Texas, The Brewery Project in Los Angeles, The Drawing Center in New York, Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and Dinnerware Artspace in Tucson, Arizona. Upcoming venues include the Art Gym at Marylhurst University and the Archer Gallery at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Lisa Radon of Ultra has called Nagy, “a force to be reckoned with on all fronts.” Nagy’s work has also been reviewed by Jeff Jahn of PORT and John Motley of the Portland Mercury. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is also the Director and Co-Curator of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, a venue for experimental work.
Seth Nehil
Instructor in Foundation, Liberal Arts
MFA 2005 Bard College (Music/Sound)
BFA 1998 University of Texas at Austin (Painting/Transmedia)
Seth Nehil is a sound and visual artist working across mediums. He has composed works for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts, dance, theater and multimedia performance. Recordings published on international labels include: Uva, Umbra and Amnemonic Site, and collaborations with jgrzinich, Olivia Block and Brendan Murray. He has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan. Seth Nehil is also co-editor and designer of FO A RM magazine, an internationally-distributed journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art. Current projects include the spatialized sound-score for Linda Austin and Dancers’ Circus Me Around and the curation of Usufruct, a group show at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Seth Nehil is a finalist for the Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Contemporary Art Awards.
Molly Newgard
Assistant Professor in Art History, Liberal Arts
MA 1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism)
BA 1992 University of California, Davis (French, Art History)
Molly Newgard is an art historian, with a focus on modern and contemporary art. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at PNCA and Portland State University, teaching a range of art history classes. She has also taught at the Art Institute of Portland. Since 1994, Newgard has worked in education at the Portland Art Museum, serving as docent educator, program coordinator for modern and contemporary programs and interim director of education. Newgard programmed the highly regarded “Critical Voices” lecture series at the museum, which brought the national voices of Michael Kimmelman, Hal Foster, Dan Cameron and Rosalind Krauss to Portland audiences. Newgard received her BA in French and Art History at UC Davis and her MA in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anne Marie Oliver
Assistant Professor in Intermedia, Contemporary Art Theory, MFA Contemporary Theory Seminar
Wallenberg Scholar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1987-1988 (Political Theory)
The School of Criticism & Theory, Northwestern University 1985 (Critical Theory)
M.A.R. 1984 Yale University (Religion & the Arts), cum laude
B.A. 1981 Emory University, Emory-at-Oxford and Emory Colleges (Religion & Literature)
Anne Marie Oliver is a writer, photographer and documentarist whose work explores the intersection of art, religion and politics. She teaches the Art & Religion and Art & Politics seminars in the Intermedia Department at PNCA and the Contemporary Art Theory course in the MFA in Visual Studies Program. She is also a Research Scholar at the Orfalea Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following studies at Emory, Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she taught at MIT, Georgia Tech and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a Visiting Scholar and consultant at Harvard University. She has lectured at institutions across the United States, including: Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, The University of Chicago, UCLA, The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, The LA Public Library, The Annenberg School for Communication at USC, and The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; and has written on theater, music, computer games, graffiti and underground media for academic publications as well as for Salon, The New Republic and Le Monde diplomatique. Her co-authored book, The Road to Martyrs’ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber (Oxford University Press, 2005) was a Quill Award nominee, with documentary work supported by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation.
She has appeared on radio and television shows in the U.S. and abroad, including CNN, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, the BBC, MSNBC, Air America and Fresh Air with Terry Gross as well as in print media. Her latest projects are “The Fixer,” a documentary on how the news is made and who makes it; “Deeper South,” a multimedia exploration of the Southern uncanny and “Rehearsals for a Happy Death,” a video installation that explores mutually self-canceling visions of past, present and future and their possible mutations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her interests include word-and-image art, the history of the relation of words and images, artists’ books, concrete poetry, photography, documentary, film, portraiture in any medium, landscape, natural installation, environmental art and architecture.
* Barry Pelzner
Associate Professor in Drawing, Foundation, Painting
MAT 1970 Reed College (Teaching)
BFA 1977 PNCA (Painting, Drawing)
BA 1968 Reed College (Literature)
Barry Pelzner has taught Drawing, Painting and Anatomy at PNCA for more than 20 years. His work is exhibited extensively in the region and is in many corporate and public collections, including a 50-foot wall relief at the Department of Human Resources Building on the Capitol Mall in Salem, Oregon. He is represented in Portland by Froelick Gallery. Pelzner received his BFA from PNCA, a BA in Literature from Reed College and his MAT from Reed College. He is an Associate Professor at PNCA.
Ryan Pierce
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2007 California College of the Arts (Drawing and Painting)
BFA 2003 Oregon College of Art and Craft (Drawing)
* Lennie Pitkin
Painting Department Chair
Director of Study Abroad
Professor in Advanced Studios
BFA 1971 Pacific Northwest College of Art (Painting)
Orleonok Pitkin has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and in site-works and commissions regionally, nationally and abroad, with an interdisciplinary approach to media. His current work explores contemporary extinction theory, memory, and loss through reductive imagery, text, and sound. Represented by Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, solo exhibitions include: Koplin and Oranges, Sardines Galleries, Los Angeles; Hodges/Banks and White Galleries, Seattle; Gallery of New Mexico, Santa Fe; and Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland. Selected group exhibitions include: Northwest Masters, Seattle; Contemporary Installation, Pullman, Washington and San Francisco, California; Six Sculpteurs Americains Contemporains, Riec-sur-Belon, France; Northwest Visions, Rome, Italy; Constructed Paintings, Seattle, Washington; New American Graphics, Madison, Wisconsin; Impressions of Brittany, Boston, Massachusetts; and International Art Fairs: Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. Selected collections include: Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Contemporary Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, Peter Norton Collection, Los Angeles. Pitkin’s work has appeared in various publications including: Art in America, The Oregonian, Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and exhibition catalogs. Pitkin received his BFA from PNCA and is a Professor in the Painting, Printmaking and Intermedia Departments.
* Paul Platosh
Communication Design Department Chair
Associate Professor in Communication Design
MA Liberal Studies 2005 Reed College (Concentration in Studio Art)
BA 1995 Carnegie Mellon University (Graphic Communications Management)
BA 1995 Carnegie Mellon University (Creative Writing)
Paul Platosh is the Chair of the Communication Design Department at PNCA. He has been teaching at the college level since 1999. Platosh started his career on the East Coast in the book publishing industry doing covers and layouts, as well as other forms of print design. He migrated as a staff designer and freelancer working primarily in print, finally ending up at Thompson Publishing. Currently, in addition to teaching he does freelance digital design. Puddletown Press, Platosh’s own business, focuses on antique letterpress printing. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and his Master’s degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he concentrated his thesis work on sustainable package design.
Mallory Pratt
Instructor in Natural Science
M Ed 1990 University of Massachusetts, Boston (Secondary Education)
BS 1985 Tufts University (Biology)
Mallory Pratt is a science teacher who has worked at both the high school and college level for 13 years. She has a wide range of science interests from evolution and genetics to restoration ecology/biology. Past projects with students include riparian restoration in the Johnson Creek Watershed, student-led public Watershed Education fairs and data gathering/analysis of urban air pollution in the Portland airshed at PSU.
* Mary Preis
Liberal Arts Department Chair
Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts
MA 2000 University of Oregon (Art History)
BA 1995 University of Delaware (Art History, Magna Cum Laude)
Mary Preis grew up in Maryland, yet often summered at the family farm in Illinois and visited Europe. Just as she is equally comfortable in the city and country, so is she with most of the arts. Music, dance, and theater led her to high school at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she ultimately received her degree in creative writing and visual art (textiles and printmaking). Preis then majored in Art History at the University of Delaware, with a minor in Printmaking (magna cum laude, phi beta kappa, and twice awarded Art Hstory Student of the Year among others for her fine art). While in college, she also studied in London, England; Athens, Greece; and Florence, Italy. Preis continued with a Masters in Art History at the University of Oregon where she was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship for two years and the Donnolly Travel Grant for her thesis research. Her focus is in Ancient Art and Archaeology, particularly Bronze Age Aegean cultures, yet she has also studied in Frankfort, Germany and worked at the Roman archaeological site of Tel Dor in Israel.
Preis began teaching Art History at PNCA in 2000, and while still making art and having enjoyed a variety of other activities at PNCA (Career Services Director, Foundation Chair, Liberal Arts Chair), she holds teaching as her greatest interest and privilege. She received the first Sally and John Lawrence Award in 2004 and The Sara Roby Award for Outstanding Achievement in Furthering Higher Education in 2007. Preis is an Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts (Art History).
Thomas Prochaska
Assistant Professor in Printmaking
MFA 1970 Pratt Institute of Art (Painting, Printmaking)
BA 1968 University of Wisconsin (Art Education, Painting)
After completing graduate school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, a short teaching assignment at the University of Georgia, time living and working in Switzerland as an edition printer and serving as the Chair of Wesleyan College’s Art Department for three years, Tom Prochaska moved to Oregon in 1978. Since then, Prochaska has co-founded two cooperative print studios in Portland: Inkling Studio (1980) and Atelier Mars (1990) and through these studios has worked as a collaborative and fine art printer. His present gallery affiliations are Froelick Gallery (Portland, Oregon) and Triangle Gallery (San Francisco, California). In 1996, Prochaska received the last Western States NEA grant in painting. His prints and paintings are in the collections of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia), the Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the New York Public Library. Prochaska has served as Chair of Printmaking, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Printmaking and Drawing at PNCA.
tprochaska [at] pnca [dot] edu
* Nandini Ranganathan
Associate Professor, Liberal Arts
BA 1994 Mathematics, Wellesley College (Honors in Mathematics)
MS 1996 University of Michigan (Mathematics)
PhD 2000 University of Michigan (Mathematics)
Jason Resch
Instructor in Communication Design
MBA 2004 Marylhurst Univeristy
BS 1998 University of Wisconsin-Stout (Marketing & Education) (Summa Cum Laude)
Jason Resch is a Senior Account Manager for internationally award-winning, multi-disciplinary design firm: Twenty Four Seven. His specialties include research, branding, marketing, and community outreach. His projects range from managing the design/build process of world-class retail stores, shop-in-shops, and retail extensions to research projects that cut across strategy, 2D and 3D. Resch teaches Marketing and Branding classes, and also leads the evolution of the Center4Design classes at PNCA. His background includes an MBA from Marylhurst University and a BA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin.
Margaret Richardson
Instructor in Design History
Teaching Certificate 1976 Garnett College, University of London (Further and Higher Education)
BA 1962 Mundelein College (English Literature)
Richardson has been writing about art and design since the early 1980s. A frequent contributor to Print Magazine, Richardson was also senior editor of How Magazine in its early year. In 1990, Richardson became editor of U&lc, subsequently becoming editor and publisher. U&lc during her editorship received many awards and her work has been documented in design periodicals and books including Steven Heller and Theresa Fernandes’ Magazines Inside and Out. Richardson lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches the History of Modern Design Class at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
* David Ritchie
Professor in Liberal Arts, Thesis Research & Writing
Ph.D. 1986 University of California, San Diego (Modern European History)
MA 1981 University of California, San Diego (Modern European History)
BA 1978 University of Sussex (English in the School of European Studies)
Before coming to PNCA, David Ritchie was awarded an honors degree in Literature from the University of Sussex, spending a year abroad at the University of Grenoble, France. He then passed the Common Professional Exam at the College of Law in London, before joining the History Ph.D. program at the University of California, San Diego, where his thesis, “One History of Shellshock,” was supervised by Professor H. Stuart Hughes. In 1987, after publishing more than a hundred articles as a freelance writer and editor, Professor Ritchie joined the faculty at PNCA. For many years he taught the Foundation Social Science class, “Art and Ideas in the Twentieth Century.” He now teaches the thesis research and writing class as well as upper division research seminars.
Barry Sanders
Professor in Liberal Arts
BS 1960 University of California, Los Angeles
AM 1963 University of Southern California
PhD 1966 University of Southern California
Crystal Schenk
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 2007 Portland State University
BFA 1999 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
* Sally Schoolmaster
Photography Department Chair
Assistant Professor in Foundation, Photography
MFA 1990 Ohio University (Photography)
BS 1986 University of Oregon (Journalism)
Sally Schoolmaster is a freelance architectural photographer. Her work has been published internationally in books and journals. Publications include: Architecture, Casabella, Archis, the New York Times Magazine, Wallpaper, Inc. Magazine and Architectural Record. Most recently her work can be seen in the book Architecture in the United States, Taschen Press, 2006. Schoolmaster received her BS from University of Oregon and her MFA from Ohio University. She is the Chair of the Photography Department at PNCA.
Stephen Slappe
Instructor in Foundation, Intermedia
MFA 2001 University of South Carolina (Painting & 3D Studies)
BFA 1997 University of North Florida (Painting)
Stephen Slappe was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1973. He is a multidisciplinary artist working in Portland, Oregon. Slappe received his BFA from the University of North Florida in 1997 and his MFA from the University of South Carolina in 2001. Using video, installation, drawing and printmaking, Slappe sifts through the epistemological wake of technology and popular culture. Humor, absurdity, and anxiety can be found in his work regardless of the medium. Slappe’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the South Carolina State Museum, The Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, The Sarai Media Lab in Delhi, Consolidated Works in Seattle, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival in Portland, Artists’ Television in San Francisco, and Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta. He received a 2007 Artistic Focus Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland, Oregon.
Slappe is also an active curator and organizer of video exhibitions, including Retinal Reverb for the 2007 PDX Film Festival. Other shows curated or co-curated include: Out of Sync, a video exhibition held in conjunction with the 2006 PDX Film Festival and Current, a site-specific outdoor screening of experimental, water-themed videos on the banks of Portland’s Willamette River in 2005. Slappe is an Instructor in Foundation at PNCA, and is represented by Tilt Gallery and Project Space in Portland, Oregon.
* Mary Slowik
Associate Professor in Liberal Arts
Ph.D. 1975 University of Iowa (English)
MA 1971 University of Iowa (English)
BA 1968 Mary Grove College (English)
Mary Slowik holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa with areas of specialty in American Literature, American Poetry of the 1960’s and 70’s and Modern British Literature. Her dissertation addressed the problem of form in the poetry of W. S. Merwin. Her post-doctoral work has focused on theoretical and formal issues in multi-cultural literature with articles published on Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Silko, the anthropological narratives of Frank Basso and Greg Sarris, and Asian American immigration poetry. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The North Dakota Quarterly and MELUS. Her work has also appeared in Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction and in Gargoyle 50. Her most current interest is rhetorical form in visual and literary moral tales. An essay on the paintings of Leon Golub and the prints of Sue Coe was published in the August 2007 issue of Narrative. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught Native American Literature and Advanced Writing at Washington State University at Vancouver and currently teaches English Composition and Literature Seminars at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
* Arvie Smith
Associate Professor in Drawing, Foundation, Painting
MFA 1992 Maryland Institute College of Art (Painting)
BFA 1985 PNCA (Painting, Printmaking)
Arvie Smith spent his childhood in rural Texas and in South Central and Watts, Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1984 and his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting under Grace Hartigan in 1992. During a sojourn to Italy, Smith studied at Il Bisonte and SACI in Florence in 1983. His extensive travels through West Africa included researching the slave castles of the Gold Coast. He is represented by Beppu Wiarda Gallery in Portland. His work is on display as part of the exhibition At Freedom’s Door, Challenging Slavery in Maryland at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore where he recently completed a two-year artist residency. Smith is an Associate Professor in Foundation and Painting.
Jerry Sumpter
Instructor in Art History
D.E.A. (Ph.D. ABD) 2006 Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (Philosophy of Art)
MFA 2002 University of Nebraska (Painting/Drawing)
BFA 1998 University of Nebraska (Painting)
Roy Tomlinson
Instructor in Foundation
MFA 1991 University of California, Berkeley
BFA 1979 San Francisco Art Institute
Janet Vorvick
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
MS 1995 Portland State University (Computer Science)
BA 1982 St. Olaf College
Janet Vorvick has taught math at the college level for 15 years. She is especially interested in symbolic logic. At each class meeting, Vorvick includes a lesson that relates math to art. Her own artistic endeavors include sewing clothing and creating decorated cookies.
* Morgan Walker
Associate Professor in Art History, Painting
MFA 1995 University of Oregon (Printmaking)
BFA 1993 PNCA (Printmaking)
JD 1982 Tulane University School of Law (Law)
BA 1979 Washington and Lee University (Philosophy)
Morgan Walker was born and spent his early life in rural Louisiana. His mother left school with one year remaining on a scholarship to Sophie Newcomb College to marry his father, a rodeo cowboy. His maternal grandfather, a lifelong Shriner, was obsessed with carnival freak shows. The paternal grandfather for whom he was named was a small-town businessman and farmer with a distinctive wooden leg. His grandmother was a well-known breeder of horses, cattle, and Spider monkeys. Morgan’s great-grandparents include a distiller of undocumented spirits, several Confederate soldiers, and a professional fortune-teller who roamed Louisiana and East Texas in a horse-drawn wagon.
Blood will tell. Emerging virtually unscathed from early training in philosophy and law Walker became, along with his uncle Lestarjet Martin, one of two British Fulbright Scholars produced by the family-he in fine art and Lestarjet in architecture. Originally arriving in Oregon after traversing the continent by bicycle, he settled here to be left alone to underachieve in peace, but has instead found himself, through no fault of his own, a professional painter. Walker has a BA in Philosophy from Washington Lee University, a JD from Tulane University of Law, a BFA from PNCA and a MFA from the University of Oregon. He is an Associate Professor in Drawing, Liberal Arts and Painting.
Christine Weber
Instructor in Art History
MA 2005 University of Washington (Art History)
BA 1998 Western Oregon University (Interdisciplinary Studies: Art History)
* Christy Wyckoff
Printmaking Department Chair
Professor in Printmaking
MFA 1971 University of Washington (Printmaking)
BA 1968 University of Oregon (Graphic Design)
Christy Wyckoff is a visual artist whose work explores the territory where photography, printmaking and drawing intersect. He has had solo exhibitions at the Alysia Duckler Gallery and Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Gravura Brasileira (SP, Brazil), and Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba (Brazil). Wyckoff has participated in museum exhibitions including: The Plates: International Contemporary Print Art at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music; One of a Kind: Monotypes from the Permanent Collection at the Portland Art Museum; Waters Edge: Landscapes by Contemporary Northwest Artists at the Maryhill Museum of Art; What’s Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Oregon and Washington at the Alternative Museum (NYC); and In Touch: Nature, Ritual and Sensuous Art from the Northwest at the Portland Center for Visual Arts.
Wyckoff’s work is in various collections including the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Collection of the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum at the University of Oregon, the Minnesota Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba, the New York Public Library, and the Tacoma Museum of Art. Wyckoff has recently returned from a residency at the University of Sao Paulo. He was previously awarded a visiting fellowship at the Nagoya City University and a residency at the Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba. Wyckoff received his BFA from University of Oregon and his MFA from University of Washington. He is a Professor in Foundation and Printmaking at PNCA.
Linda Wysong
Associate Professor in Art History, Professional Practices
MA 1974 University of Maryland (Art History)
BA 1972 University of Maryland (Art History)
Standing at the intersection of community, urban design and the environment, Linda Wysong creates opportunities to “re-see” the everyday world. Her practice is not centered in object making but utilizes place, space and experience. The work addresses the cycle of building and demolition, waste, water, communications, transportation and land use, examining each of these systems in relationship to human history and the natural world.
Wysong’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally, in New York (Exit Art), San Francisco (Southern Exposure), Washington DC (National Building Museum), Rotterdam (Kunst en Complex), and throughout the Pacific Northwest – Seattle, Portland, Corvallis, Salem, and Eugene. Educated at the University of Maryland, she has been living and working in Portland for over 20 years. Regional venues include Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Portland Museum of Art, the Northwest Artists Workshop and the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA).
Participating in the civic dialogue, Wysong has contributed to numerous design and planning teams. She also has public art installations in the Northgate district of Seattle, and Interstate MAX and the Springwater Trail in Portland. She is currently working on the Holman Building Plaza and the Old Town Station on the Portland Mall.
Wysong received her BA and MA in Art History from the University of Maryland. Wysong has been at PNCA since 1990 and has taught Sculpture, Art Theory, Professional Practices, and Art Since 1945.
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