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Master's Degree Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon

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Join us for PNCA's MFA Open Studios at the Glass Building! Meet the artists, explore working studios, and experience work created by PNCA MFA students.

October 24, 2025
5-8PM
OFF OF MAIN CAMPUS at the Glass Building 2139 N Kerby Ave. Portland, OR by @pncacriticalstudies

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Thanks to everyone who joined us during the lunch hour for a special book talk with author Jessica Lawless, sponsored by the Critical Studies program!

Students, faculty, and guests gathered to hear Jessica discuss her new memoir, Cultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent (PM Press) - a powerful look at loss, economic survival, and three decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberal capitalism.

The discussion took an intimate look at the somatic impacts of remembering and forgetting, tracing through the hope and hypocrisy of leftist activism, the academic art world, and the US labor movement.

Thank you to Jessica Lawless for sharing her work and insights with our community, and to everyone who came through to listen, connect, and join the conversation over lunch! by @pncacriticalstudies

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Thank you @sashastiles for sharing A Living Poem with us! taken in PNCA MA in Critical Studies by @pncacriticalstudies

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Reminder to register for @sashastiles workshop: WHEN LANGUAGE COMES ALIVE: A LIVING POEM, part of the 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura and the Algorithm on Saturday, October 3rd from 1-3pm.

Participants will contribute fragments of language and watch them evolve, recombine, and take on unexpected forms, exploring what happens when human and algorithmic imaginations meet inside the machine of poetry.

Registration through our eventbrite link in bio! Free & open to all. In person only, limited space! by @pncacriticalstudies

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On Friday October 2nd, the Symposium brings together theorists, curators, and interdisciplinary artists for critical conversations exploring the conditions under which computational tools operate, shift authority, and interact with established human frameworks of belief and social/political practice and the ways that algorithmic systems alter our understanding of human agency, sacred iconography, and cultural value.
Followed by the keynote lecture from Sasha Stiles at 6pm.

For more information and details about each panel visit the link in our bio or https://pnca.willamette.edu/culture/symposium. by @pncacriticalstudies

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The Symposium will feature visiting artist Sasha Stiles, a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and language artist whose work explores what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. This lecture is presented with support from the Dorothy Lemelson Foundation.

@sashastiles

Her interdisciplinary practice reimagines poetry as an ancient technology and a living computational medium, advancing poetic intelligence — the synthesis of emotion and algorithm-- as a philosophy for the generative age.

Please join us for her keynote lecture on Friday, October 2, 2026 from 6-7:30pm at PNCA. This lecture will be in person and online (live streamed via the PNCA YouTube Channel. Link will be available a few hours before the lecture begins.)

Additionally, please join us for a workshop led by Sasha Stiles on Saturday, October 3rd from 1-3pm. WHEN LANGUAGE COMES ALIVE: A LIVING POEM WITH SASHA STILES.

Space limited. Register online by @pncacriticalstudies

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Fall 2027 applications are open for the MA in Critical Studies at PNCA — small seminars, dual degree options, and faculty who take your research projects seriously.

This program is for you if you’re an artist who wants theoretical frameworks for your practice, a writer who wants to publish criticism, an arts worker angling toward curatorial or leadership work, or a future PhD student building a writing sample.

Our graduates go on to curate, edit, write, teach, run programs and nonprofits, direct communications, and enter doctoral study.

Apply — link in bio. 🩵
#CriticalStudies #PNCA #CulturalStudies #GradSchool taken in PNCA MA in Critical Studies by @pncacriticalstudies

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Thank you to MJ Corey @kardashian_kolloquium for joining us at PNCA last Friday!

Hosted by @pncacriticalstudies, our community had the opportunity to hear from MJ Corey, a Brooklyn-based writer and psychotherapist best known for Kardashian Kolloquium @kardashian_kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram, where she applies media theory and postmodern frameworks to the Kardashian family and contemporary culture.

MJ’s culture writing has been featured in Refinery29, PAPER Magazine, Vogue, The New Yorker, and many other outlets.

It was a great opportunity for our students and community to explore the intersections of media, pop culture, theory, and criticism and to see how critical studies can provide a lens for examining the culture that surrounds us every day.

A huge thank you to MJ Corey for spending time with our community, and to @pncacriticalstudies for bringing another engaging conversation to PNCA! taken in Pacific Northwest College Of Art by @pncacriticalstudies

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On September 4, at 6PM join just for a talk with MJ Corey hosted by @pncacriticalstudies .

MJ Corey is a Brooklyn-based writer and psychotherapist best known as Kardashian Kolloquium @kardashian_kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram, where she applies media theory and postmodern frameworks to the Kardashian family.

Her culture writing has been featured in Refinery29, Paper Magazine, Vogue, and The New Yorker, among many other outlets.

Join us for a free public talk September 4, at 6pm

PNCA Mediatheque
511 NW Broadway by @pncacriticalstudies

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A new chapter begins at the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies!

We officially kicked off our MFA & MA Orientation, and we’re so excited to welcome our newest cohort of graduate artists, designers, writers, and thinkers to PNCA.

To our newest MFA and MA students: welcome to the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies! We can’t wait to see the ideas you explore, the work you create, and the incredible things you accomplish during your time here.

Here’s to an inspiring year ahead! taken in Portland, Oregon by @pncacriticalstudies

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We are thrilled to open a call for papers for PNCA’s 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm. (Oct 1-3, 2026)

What happens to art, authorship, and presence when AI enters the creative process?

We invite proposals from artists, writers, and scholars interested in questions like:
Can AI-generated art possess aura?
What becomes of authorship, originality, and artistic presence today?
How is aura produced, performed, or gamified online?
What new forms of creativity emerge through human–machine collaboration?

FORMAT:
We are accepting proposals for individual papers (15–20 minutes). Research, creative practice, and community-based work are all welcome. Graduate & advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit. You don’t need all the answers—just a strong question to explore.

Submission should include an abstract (300 words max), bio (100 words max), and any tech or accessibility needs. Send to pncasymposium-group@willamette.edu

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026

#CallForPapers #PNCASymposium #ArtAndAI #AlgorithmicCulture #MediaTheory taken in PNCA MA in Critical Studies by @pncacriticalstudies

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In the studio with Mallary Wilson!

Congrats to all of our Critical Studies students on finishing their thesis presentations this week and good luck to all of our Visual Studies & Print Media students who will be presenting their thesis projects next week. 👏 taken in PNCA at Willamette University by @pncacriticalstudies

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