Global Studios

International and Off Campus Studies: U.S. and Abroad

Your education — and your life as an artist — will expand well beyond the PNCA campus as you investigate the world through art while earning college credit towards your degree. You might study in Germany for a semester, work with a mentor artist in New York City, or travel to Asia with a group of your fellow students and faculty to learn from designers and artists in other cultures. From France to Australia, from Dakar to Tokyo, PNCA offers a wide range of study abroad options for both Short and Semester Long Programs. The AICAD Mobility Program (U.S. and Canada) and New York Studio Program give PNCA students additional opportunity to pursue classes at other affiliated colleges of art and design while fulfilling PNCA requirements.

PNCA grants and travel loans may be used to supplement your financial aid grants and loans for study abroad affiliates and exchange partners. PNCA Global Studios Team will help match the right off campus program to your educational and artistic goals or assist in developing an individual experience through internship or service learning.

All Short Term and Semester Long Programs are credit bearing and require application to both PNCA and the host institution.

Short Term Programs

• International Instructor-led Programs
• International Summer Programs
• International Internships
• Service Learning

International Instructor-led Programs are available for students who wish to be immersed in cultural and studio projects with related studies at PNCA. This program reaches beyond the traditional fall/spring academic calendar, generally preceding or immediately following a given semester.

International Summer Programs through PNCA include both Affiliated and Independent Non-Affiliated programs in Fine Art, Design, Liberal Arts or Art History.

International Internships provide yet another opportunity for PNCA students to study abroad while gaining supervised practical experience in the creative professional field.

Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy for PNCA students that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.

Semester Long Programs

• International Semester Exchange
• Non-Affiliated Programs
• International Internships
• Service Learning
• AICAD Mobility Program (U.S. and Canada)
• New York Studio Program

International Semester Exchange includes a one-semester residence for PNCA students and a minimum of 12 credits with an international host institution (Affiliate, Exchange Partners or Non-Affiliated).

International Internships (short term/semester long) see information above under Short Term Programs
Service Learning (short term/semester long) see information above under Short Term Programs

AICAD Mobility Program allows PNCA students to spend one semester in their junior year at a sister art school within the US or Canada subject to the discretion of the Host institution. Participating schools are members of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design.

New York Studio Program engages one student from PNCA, who applies and is selected by a PNCA faculty committee each year to spend one semester of their junior year in NYC engaged in independent studio work or an internship.

PNCA has formal agreements with the following institutions for International Exchange (Affiliated and Exchange) with comparable curricula and cultural immersion.

Affiliated

Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France

Exchange Partner

• Hochsule beider Basal fur Gestanltung und Kunst, (HGK), Switzerland
• Fachhochshule Schwaebisch, Hall, Germany
• Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, Belgium
• Zurich University of the Arts Zurich, (HGKZ), Switzerland
• Victorian College of the Arts, a faculty of the University of Melbourne, Australia, (alternate link)
• Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia

PNCA Students, visit Global Studios Program in Homeroom for more information.

Global Studios Program Team

Orleonok (Lennie) Pitkin
Director International Studies
lennie [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8884

Pearl Fisher
Academic Advisor
pearl [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8974

Erica Loloff
Assistant Academic Advisor
eloloff [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8909

Heidi Locke
Director of Financial Aid
hlocke [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8976

Andrew McDonald
Director of Career Advising Programs
amcdonald [at] pnca [dot] edu, 503-821-8921

• A valid passport, is required for all Global Studios Programs

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