Brittany Rudolf’s stunning exhibition in the MFA AC+D 2019 Practicum Exhibition. Congratulations to the graduating class of 2019!!!

AC+D Fellow, Nathan Paul Rice, second year Jean Keum, and Alina hard at work while Steve supervises!! See their work exhibited on 6/28 for Last Thursday in conjunction with Portland Bureau of Transportation!

Jason Rens,  MFA AC+D Candidate 2019

I am a wanderer, seeking to make sense of things and figure out who I am if I am not what everyone needed me to be. Through a hybrid practice of furniture, sculpture, and performance, I hope to discover my own agency and independence.

Brittany Rudolf, MFA AC+D Candidate 2019 

First year candidate Lilia Hernandez diligently sewing a culturally infused artwork.

Second year candidate Katharine Forgan is a busy bee in her studio! Each personal space provided for AC+D's cohorts really becomes an extension of their personality.

Though his undergrad is in furniture design, AC+D's fellow Eliot Park has mastered the pottery wheel. Exploration is key to this program's philosophy!

Second year candidate Taylor Kibby pouring ceramic molds at AC+D's in-house ceramics studio. Eager to see the results!

MFA AC+D Faculty Namita Wiggers was recently featured in The Craft School Experience Podcast! 

Listen HERE.

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Namita Gupta Wiggers is a curator, writer, educator, and artist living in Portland, Oregon.   She began her career in museums, eventually serving as curator and then director of the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland.  Namita is a co-founder of Critical Craft Forum, which provides spaces for makers to discuss critical issues to the field of craft, including a recent symposium on Gender and Jewelry in New York City. - See more at: http://www.craftschools.us/podcast.html#sthash.mflZ3B39.dpuf

MFA AC+D Practicum show was a “top pick” for Portland art critic/writer/blogger Jeff Jahn on Port.

link HERE

PRACTICUM EXHIBITION /// opening this Friday! 6-9pm 421 NE 10th PDX (at The Bison Building)

Install in progress!! PRACTICUM EXHIBITION OPENING MAY 12 6-9pm student work in progress by Diane Derib (at The Bison Building)

Bukola Koiki, MFA AC+D ‘15 

An Aggregate of Power II

First Thursday Viewing with Artist Thursday, May 4th, 2017 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDX Contemporary Art925 NW Flanders, Portland, Oregon 97209

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, April 29th - Saturday, May 27th, 2017 PDX Window Project space is viewable 24/7 PDX Contemporary Art Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

| STATEMENT | The process of beading is a serial process; enacted one by one to create a unique totality. The word bead is derived from the Old English bede, meaning prayer. Thus, the act of beading is the act of gathering prayers, a magical aggregate of charged objects. To the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria, the bead is a potent cultural object that represents healing, unity, solidarity, desire, generation and regeneration, preciousness and auspiciousness. The body itself is believed to be a string, “threaded” with pierced forms. Encircling the head, neck, wrist, waist, or ankles, beads literally and symbolically seal in and protect the inner spiritual essence of people and things. By removing beads from the intimate physical space of the body and increasing their size many times over, I transfer their protective power to the public physical space they now occupy and to all who enter here. | FURTHER EXPLORATIONS |www.bukolakoiki.com@bukola_notbucolic

MFA AC+D + DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND

SHELF REFLECTION

SALE TODAY!

4-7pm

$50 and under

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421 NE 10th Ave

PDX

Almost ready for our #dwp sale!!! Handmade goods! $50 and under! 😱 Everything must go!!! 4-7pm @grit_grain setting up shop! (at The Bison Building)

Almost ready for our #dwp sale!!! Handmade goods! $50 and under! 😱 Everything must go!!! 4-7pm (at The Bison Building)

Shelf Reflection

Graduate students and affiliates of MFA Applied Craft + Design are pleased to invite you to Shelf Reflection, an Open House + Sale event in their collective studio space during Design Week Portland April 27th, 2017.

The multi-talented students in the AC+D program study modern and traditional craft alongside some of Portland’s top artist/designers/thinkers/makers. The projects and products developed in this unique program will be available to the public during this open house event. From innovative designwares, cutting-edge fashion apparel and jewelry, to sculpture, ceramics and hand-made books. This event represents the spirit of the program’s creative laboratory. All items for $50 or less.

We hope to see you then!

Sincerely,

MFA Applied Craft + Design (OCAC/ PNCA)

April 27th, 2017

4:00pm-7:00pm

421 NE 10th 97232.