Call for Applications
Application deadline February 1, 2012
www.pdx.edu/art/graduate-studies
The Department of Art at Portland State University, Oregon’s largest and only urban university, invites applications to the Studio Practice concentration of its Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Art Practice degree. Built around a core of research-intensive creative investigation, the two-year, full-residency program is dedicated to interdisciplinary experimentation and the exploration of ideas through the experience of making. Students are supported in a range of production disciplines, from the traditional to the emerging, as they as they consider the multiple ways art can live in and beyond the studio.
A wide variety of resources promoting an environment conducive to challenging and rigorous study includes close ties with resident faculty; dialogue with visiting artists and scholars; seminars in current issues and contemporary art history; exhibition and travel opportunities; collaboration with students and faculty in other disciplines and a comprehensive teaching practicum. The Department has multiple galleries, state-of-the-art computer graphics and multimedia facilities, a foundry, a welding studio, a printmaking studio with etching and lithography presses, a darkroom and wood and metal workshops. PSU’s 50-acre urban campus serves as a laboratory for sustainable practices.
Located in the heart of one of the nation’s most livable cities, PSU’s Department of Art is a vital part of a thriving, nationally recognized arts community. Our studios are close to the city’s premier galleries and alternative spaces on both sides of the Willamette River. The Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, the Northwest Film Center, the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), YU Contemporary and an eclectic array of performing arts venues help broaden the PSU experience.
2011–2012 MFA Faculty
Kate Bingaman-Burt, Pat Boas, Horia Boboia, Brenden Clenaghen, Kristan Kennedy, Julie Perini, Patrick Rock, Sean Regan
2011–2012 Visiting Artists include Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Yvonne Rainer (co-sponsored with Pacific Northwest College of Art), Euan Macdonald, Jennifer West, Wendy White, Paul Pfeiffer (co-sponsored with PSU’s Department of Architecture)
Past Visiting Artists
Léonie Guyer, Joseph Park, Kenneth Goldsmith, Laurel Nakadate, James Yood, Hasan Elahi, George Kuchar, Sam Durant, Barry Sanders, Stephanie Syjuco, Hank Willis Thomas, Mark Dion, Frances Stark, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Daniel Bozhkov, Lucky Dragons, Andrea Zittel, Buster Simpson, Andrea Bowers, Anissa Mack, Y0UNG-HAE CHANG (HEAVY INDUSTRIES), Edgar Heap of Birds
Online applications are due February 1, 2012
Applicants to the Studio Practice concentration are invited from a variety of backgrounds, preferably but not exclusively with BA or BFA degrees in the fine arts. To learn more about admissions requirements, visit www.pdx.edu/art/mfa-admissions-requirements or email [email protected].
Department of Art | Portland State University
P.O. Box 751 | Portland, Oregon 97207-0751
Telephone: 503.725.3515 | 800.547.8887 ext. 3515 | FAX: 503.725.4541
www.pdx.edu/art
Email: [email protected]
