COMMUNITY

THE GRADUATE STUDIES COMMUNITY IS MADE UP OF AN EVER- EXPANDING NETWORK OF ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CRAFTSPEOPLE, AND SCHOLARS ENGAGED INSIDE THE CLASSROOM, AND ACROSS THE CITY AND BROADER ARTS LANDSCAPE.

ALONGSIDE TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, WHICH OFFER VALUABLE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES, STUDENTS ARE REGULARLY PARTICIPATING IN STUDIO VISITS WITH VISITING ARTISTS, COMMUNITY STUDIO EVENTS, GROUP EXHIBITIONS, ON-CAMPUS CLUBS, AND PUBLIC EVENTS.

FACULTY

Our faculty members who teach across the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies programs bring experience in diverse forms of cultural production, from traditional art-making to highly conceptual practices. They are curators, writers, critics, activists, performance makers, social practice artists, and scholars engaged with the broadest range of forms and contemporary practice.

MENTORS

The mentor-student relationship is personal and unique and is at the heart of the MFA programs in the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies. Mentors serve as advocate, critic, and colleague for the MFA candidate. Mentors are paired with each candidate based on the candidate’s field of inquiry and are drawn from an expansive professional network that includes professionals in the Portland art community, our international colleagues, and PNCA faculty members.

FEATURED ALUMNI

LAURA ALLCORN (AC+D)

Work is featured in Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Science Gallery in Dublin; CCCB in Barcelona; ArtScience Museum in Singapore; Creative Time Summit X on Truth in NYC; PRIMER19: Futures For All conference in NYC; The International Society For Humor Studies Conference 19 in Austin; Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome; Design Week Portland; Risk/Reward Pavement Festival in Portland; Bridgetown Comedy Festival; and Portland Fashion Week. It’s been featured in Wired UK, The Guardian, GOOD, Dwell, and Design Bureau Magazine. Notable interaction design project clients, Thomas Cole Historic Site: The Parlors; Design

Week Portland: Lovejoy Fountain Activation; AIGA: 100 Years of Design; and Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Triumph of the Winter Queen.

ELLENA BASADA (CS)

Ellena Basada is a writer and researcher based in Portland and Berlin. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Pomona College, where she graduated cum laude, and an MA in Critical Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she was the recipient of a Hallie Ford Research Scholarship and served as Founding Editor of the art-criticism journal Art Discourse. A 2019-2020 Fulbright Fellow, she is the organizer of Affect Zoom Salon and Ad.Doc Archive—online platforms meant to build globally accessible intellectual communities.

Her work—a hybrid of research, creative writing, and criticism—can be found in VICE, LA Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Heavy Traffic Lit Mag, and Soft Surface Poetry, among others. ellena-basada.online

SEAN CARNEY (VS)

Sean Joseph Patrick Carney is an artist and writer. He is the host of Humor and the Abject, a weekly podcast about contemporary art and comedy. Carney has been awarded a Warhol Art Writing Grant, founded Social Malpractice Publishing, and was Director of Education at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University in New York. As 1/3 of GWD, Investigators, he performs collaborative research projects into paranormal phenomena. His writings appear frequently in Art in America, VICE, and other publications. sjpc.work

BUKOLA KOIKI (AC+D)

Nominated for the Textile Society of America's Brandford/Elliott Award, a Finalist for the American Craft Council’s Emerging Voices Award. Her work has been featured in American Craft magazine, Surface Design Journal, online on Art21 Magazine, Art Practical, Art:21 Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts, c3:initiative + Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residency & Exhibition and Art Practical Journal websites and has been interviewed on NPR. She was awarded the AICAD Teaching Fellowship/Visiting Assistant Professorship at Maine College of Art and recently completed the Fountainhead Teaching Fellowship/ Adjunct Professorship in the Craft/ Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

ANGÉLICA MARIA MILLÁN LOZANO (VS)

Angélica Maria Millán Lozano isan artist from Bogotá, Colombia,currently based in Brooklyn,New York. She creates abstractand figurative compositions ondistressed fabrics that question thesocial injustices that affect Latinasin the home. Millán is also a cofounderat cvllejerx, a POC focusedfashion, poetry, and performancecollaboration. Millán has presentedwork at Disjecta, Williamson |Knight, Nationale in Portland, OR;Gas Gallery in L.A., CA; and BridgeProductions in Seattle, WA.antagoniista.com

DIEGO MORALES-PORTILLO (VS)

Originally from Guatemala, Diego Morales-Portillo is a multidisciplinary artist who makes work about the absurdity of the act of making as a way to explain the failures of postmodernism through his perspective as a Central American immigrant. Co-founder and Co-director of Chingada Gallery in Portland, Diego has presented work in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Korea, Spain, and the US in exhibitions such as 2017 Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and Juannio, an auction of Latin American Art in 2013, 2016, and 2017 in Guatemala. His work is in public collections such as Imago Mundi of Luciano Benneton in Italy. dmoralesportillo.com

DANIELA REPAS (VS)

Daniela Repas is a Bosnian-born visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work depicts storytelling through multiple mediums, from drawing and animation to installation and film. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, participating as an artist, a curator, and as one of the founding members of the DripDrop collective. She is a recipient of the prestigious Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship and an alumna of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she earned an MFA in Visual Studies. Her debut as a film director of the award-winning short film Mnemonics steered her work to the intersection of film and art. In 2019 she received the Princess Grace Award for film and an IEFTA selected emerging filmmaker. She continues to create work inspired by her Bosnian origin, relentless exploration of the human condition, and art as a vessel for primary means of communication. danielarepas.com