April 6–10, 2014
Application deadline: March 29
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies
MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research (CT+CR) program
1241 NW Johnson St.
Portland OR 97209
The recipient of the 2014 CT+CR Spring Colloquium Fellowship will lead a three-hour seminar for the program’s fifteen students, its faculty, and guests during the Spring Colloquium, which will take place at the Caldera Arts Center in the high desert of Oregon, Sunday, April 6–Thursday, April 10. Applicants should submit a seminar proposal on a topic at the intersection of art, theory, and research (500–750 words), a curriculum vitae, and any relevant supporting materials in PDF format by Saturday, March 29, to [email protected]. The award recipient will be notified by Monday, March 31, and announced shortly thereafter on CT+CR’s webpage at pnca.edu/graduate/c/ctcr. The fellow will be awarded 1,000 USD and will have room and board covered in full for the length of the colloquium.
About the CT+CR Colloquia and artist residencies
With the generous support of Paul Livadary and the Marshall and Margherite McComb Foundation, the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research program holds its fall and spring colloquia and artist residencies each year at the Caldera Arts Center, located approximately three hours from Portland. Past guests of the program include writer Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet; artist Nina Katchadourian, former Viewing Program Curator at the Drawing Center, New York, and currently Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University; sculptor Geoffrey Mann, Programme Director of Glass at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; Los Angeles-based sculptor and installation artist Alison Saar; Los Angeles-based assemblage artist Betye Saar; and media artist Tom Leeser, Director of the Center for Integrated Media, CalArts.
The Frankfurt-based film critic Heike Kuehn is Visiting Scholar for the 2014 Spring Colloquium. Kuehn’s public lecture, co-sponsored by the Northwest Film Center, will take place on Monday, April 14, at 6:30pm in Swigert Commons, PNCA (1241 NW Johnson Street; Portland, Oregon 97209). Kuehn ran the esteemed film seminar Arnoldshainer Filmgespräche for many years, and has written for Die Zeit, Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau and Die Welt. She has served as a juror for film festivals around the world, including the Locarno International Film Festival, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, the Duisberg International Documentary Film Festival, the Lübeck International Film Festival of Scandinavian Films, the Montreal Film Festival, the NW Film & Video Festival, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (president), and the Crakovia Short Film Festival (president). Her novel Schlangentöchter, a magical-realist account of growing up as the daughter of the head of the Exotarium at the Frankfurt Zoo during the war, is currently being translated into English.
About the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research
The MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research, the first of its kind in the U.S., is an accelerated, 45-credit, seminar-based program (one year + summer intensive) that prepares students for opportunities at the intersection of art, theory, and research. Under the direction of founding Co-Chairs Anne-Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders, the program combines the study of critical theory as a mode of socio-political critique with creative research as a largely process-driven form of inquiry, pushing both theory and research in new directions within the context of a 21st-century art school. For more information, please contact the Chairs at [email protected] and [email protected].