We're in the thick of Design Week Portland and PNCA programs, alumni, and students, are participating, doing talks, exhibitions, performances and volunteering for this annual event. This evening, Tuesday, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program hosts a lecture by Susan S. Szenasy, publisher and editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine. On Thursday, the MFA in Collaborative Design hosts a lecture by Allan Chochinov, Chair and co-founder of the SVA MFA in Products of Design Program on The Order of Things: Unpacking the Perils and Promises of Design and the Media. PNCA's BridgeLab co-presents Creative Clubhouse #DWPDX, an event to bring together creative professionals and the resources they need to succeed, this Saturday at Holocene at from 2-7pm. On Thursday from 4-7pm PNCA's Design Arts program hosts an exhibition/open house at R/West, 1430 SE 3rd Avenue. And on Thursday at 7pm, alum Calvin Ross Carl '08 is on a panel entitled Two Kinds of Makers: An Intersection, a One Grand Gallery. Meanwhile, PNCA Animated Arts students produced a 4-channel video installation for Revolution in the Landscape: Re-experience Halprin's Fountains with the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. MFA in Visual Studies candidate, Micah Schmelzer, presented video work with Pure Surface at the Event dome at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
