With more than a century of active experience, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is one of America’s most innovative and fastest growing centers of arts education. At PNCA, leading-edge work emerges from studio process, a commitment to craft, and the practice of design and fine art thinking and making. Today, the College enrolls over 600 students in 15 undergraduate and graduate programs, and another 1,500 students annually through its continuing education programs. PNCA is actively involved in Portland’s cultural life through exhibitions and a vibrant public program of lectures by internationally recognized visiting artists, designers and creative thinkers. The College’s operating partnership with Museum of Contemporary Craft means adds depth and vibrancy to PNCA’s current curatorial and educational vision. Portland Monthly, in its January 2012 issue called PNCA “a creative class crown jewel,” and The Wall Street Journal has named Portland the nation’s next “art capital.”
