Priority application deadline: February 1, 2016
PNCA
511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) announces the two-year MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research program combining the study of critical theory with the practice of creative research, so students learn not only to critique but also to intervene, reimagine, and remake. The program claims critical theory as a creative project of analysis and exposure radically interested in accountability and the material effects of ideas. The program is designed to help students develop modes of thinking, writing, and making that cross disciplinary boundaries.
We take critical theory to include all theories that expose, critique, and transform oppressive ideologies. Coursework includes seminars in Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, LatCrit Theory, Queer Theory, and other emancipatory projects. The MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research pays particular attention to images, examining overlaps and tensions between critical theory and visual studies and investigating the role critical theory and art can play in transforming institutions and ideologies. The program explores how human beings engage language and images to make and unmake worlds.
For more information, contact Tracey Cockrell, Academic Dean, [email protected] or visit pnca.edu
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA
For over 100 years, PNCA has served as a creative center for artists and designers with an educational philosophy that emphasizes individualized curricula, independent inquiry, and cross-disciplinary exchange. The graduate programs of PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies are rooted in meaningful faculty-student relationships and close community, enhanced with mentors drawn from greater Portland, and expanded further still with visiting artists, curators, and scholars.