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International and Off Campus Studies: U.S. and Abroad
Your education — and your life as an artist — will expand well beyond the PNCA campus as you investigate the world through art while earning college credit towards your degree. You might study in Germany for a semester, work with a mentor artist in New York City, or travel to Asia with a group of your fellow students and faculty to learn from designers and artists in other cultures. From France to Australia, from Dakar to Tokyo, PNCA offers a wide range of study abroad options for both Short and Semester Long Programs. The AICAD Mobility Program (U.S. and Canada) and New York Studio Program give PNCA students additional opportunity to pursue classes at other affiliated colleges of art and design while fulfilling PNCA requirements.
PNCA grants and travel loans may be used to supplement your financial aid grants and loans for study abroad affiliates and exchange partners. PNCA Global Studios Team will help match the right off campus program to your educational and artistic goals or assist in developing an individual experience through internship or service learning.
All Short Term and Semester Long Programs are credit bearing and require application to both PNCA and the host institution.
Short Term Programs
- International Instructor-led Program
- International Summer Programs
- International Internships
- Service Learning
Cultural immersion and studio projects with related studies at PNCA are available for students who wish to study in the International Instructor-led Programs. This program reaches beyond the traditional fall/spring academic calendar, generally preceding or immediately following the semester. Summer programs through PNCA include both Affiliated and Independent Non-Affiliated programs in Fine Art, Design, Liberal Arts or Art History. International Internships and Service Learning provide yet another opportunity to study abroad while gaining supervised practical experience in the creative professional field.
Semester Long Programs
- International Semester Abroad (Affiliate, Exchange Partners or Non-Affiliated)
- AICAD Mobility Program (U.S. and Canada)
- New York Studio Program
International Semester Abroad includes a one-semester residence and a minimum of 12 credits with an international host institution (Affiliate, Exchange Partners or Non-Affiliated). The AICAD Mobility Program allows students to spend one semester in their junior year at a sister art school within the US or Canada subject to the discretion of the Host institution. Participating schools are members of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design. The New York Studio Program engages one student from PNCA, who applies and is selected by a PNCA faculty committee each year to spend one semester of their junior year in NYC engaged in independent studio work or an internship.
PNCA has formal agreements with the following institutions for International Exchange (Affiliated and Exchange) with comparable curricula and cultural immersion.
Affiliated:
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France
Exchange Partner
- Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, Belgium
- Fachhochshule Schwaebisch, Hall, Germany
- Hochsule beider Basal fur Gestanltung und Kunst, (HGK), Switzerland
- Zurich University of the Arts Zurich, (HGKZ), Switzerland
- Victorian College of the Arts, a faculty (department) of the University of Melbourne, Australia (alternate link)
PNCA Students, visit Global Studios Program in Homeroom for more information.
Global Studios Program Team
Orleonok (Lennie) Pitkin
Director International Studies
lennie [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8884
Pearl Fisher
Academic Advisor
pearl [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8974
Erica Loloff
Assistant Academic Advisor
eloloff [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8909
Heidi Locke
Director of Financial Aid
hlocke [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8976
Andrew McDonald
Director of Career Advising Programs
amcdonald [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8921
* A valid passport, is required for all Global Studios Programs
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Global Studios Bloggers
BFA students Jason Traeger and Kirsten Brady are blogging the Global Studios: Brazil program this winter break. They’re part of a large PNCA contingent of students and faculty that are immersing themselves in the culture and installing an exhibition at A Gentil Carioca Gallery in Rio de Janiero.
Teresa DiNapoli is living in Parikia, a town on the island of Paros in Greece. She's focused on drawing, art history, literature and painting, with some printmaking and writing on the side.
Read Teresa's’s blog →
Printmaking faculty Christy Wyckoff is on a semester-long residency in the printmaking department of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Read Christy’s blog →
Michael Showell was one of nine students in Japan during summer 2006 in our Studio: Tokyo program, studying with Kurosaki, Nike, and Weiden & Kennedy. He sent one photo every day to document his experience. Read Michael's Blog →
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