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Intermedia Major

Students can choose from subjects and from media according to their own interests, within a structure that allows them to explore ideas and build skills.
— Emily Ginsburg, Department Chair

pdf Intermedia Requirements

Intermedia encourages students to examine interdisciplinary art-making strategies with a conceptual foundation through independent inquiry, collaboration, research, and combined media. Together with innovative and supportive faculty, students engage in making and discussing contemporary forms of art while exploring the interconnection of ideas, processes, and cultural dialog. These aspects are further integrated into the curriculum through off-site projects, internships, and visits and lectures by nationally and internationally renowned artists and scholars. The program engages in an active program of field trips to challenging exhibitions and performances including Portland’s Time Based Arts festival.

Projects & Assignments

Transforming his relatives into a multimedia and merchandising experience, a student from a family of 15 children made figurines of siblings and parents, devised an interactive DVD of their stories, and created associated merchandise including T-shirts.
Another student investigated self-identity and gender by building a garment with exchangeable gender characteristics.
Exploring art as community, a student wrote hundreds of letters to PNCA students and staff; she then documented the responses. She staged events and performances making offerings to passersby, such as making waffles and giving them away during the First Thursday Artwalk. Finally, she created an environment featuring evidence and documentary materials of her interactions.
A student interested in the pervasiveness of violence in popular and consumer culture wallpapered, decorated, and tiled an entire bathroom in violent images from media and entertainment sources — even the toothbrush, rug, and shower curtain.

Intermedia Faculty

Daniel Duford
Instructor in Intermedia, Sculpture
BFA 1996 University of New Mexico (Studio Art)
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* Emily Ginsburg
Intermedia Department Chair, Associate Professor in Intermedia and Printmaking; On Sabbatical SP08
MFA 1991 Cranbrook Academy of Art (Printmaking)
BA 1986 Trinity College (Art History)
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* MK Guth
Chair, MFA in Visual Studies
Assistant Professor in MFA Graduate Critique Seminar
MFA 2002 New York University
BA 1987 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology/Psychology)
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* Anne Johnson
Professor in Intermedia, Contemporary Art Theory
MFA 1973 Portland State University (Painting)
BFA 1969 Portland State University (Painting)
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Linda Kliewer
Instructor in Intermedia, Photography and Senior/Thesis Chair, PICA TBA@PNCA Coordinator
BFA 1976 University of Virginia (Studio Art)
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Horatio Hung-Yan Law
Assistant Professor; On leave SP08
MFA 1993 Washington University (Printmaking)
Diploma 1985 Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts
BFA 1984 School of Visual Arts (Media Arts)
BA 1977 Johns Hopkins University (Natural Science)
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Victor Maldonado
Instructor in Intermedia and Professional Practices
MFA 2005 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Painting and Drawing)
BFA 2000 California College of Arts and Crafts (Painting and Drawing)
Study Abroad Program 1998 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rennes
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Anne Marie Oliver
Assistant Professor in BFA Intermedia; MFA Contemporary Theory
Wallenberg Scholar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1987-1988 (Political Theory)
The School of Criticism & Theory, Northwestern University 1985 (Critical Theory)
M.A.R. 1984 Yale University (Religion & the Arts), cum laude
B.A. 1981 Emory University, Emory-at-Oxford and Emory Colleges (Religion & Literature)
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* Lennie Pitkin
Painting Department Chair, Professor in Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Director of Study Abroad
BFA 1971 Pacific Northwest College of Art (Painting)
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Stephen Slappe
Instructor in Foundation and Intermedia
MFA 2001 University of South Carolina (Painting & 3D Studies)
BFA 1997 University of North Florida (Painting)
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