Pacific Northwest College of Art and the LRCW program welcome faculty member Emilly Prado for her performance, Visualizing the Verbal.
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Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, multidisciplinary artist, and speaker whose work explores identity, community, and the power of storytelling across mediums. With ancestral roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico, she now calls Portland, Oregon home.
Emilly Prado is the author of Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), a Pacific Northwest Book Award winner praised by Ms. Magazine as “utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” and Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a youth nonfiction book on the intersections of culture, identity, and U.S. history. Her writing and photography have appeared in NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, and beyond.
As an educator and cultural organizer, Emilly has built spaces that center joy, resistance, and creativity, including co-founding the Latiné DJ collective Noche Libre and the BIPOC arts nonprofit Portland in Color. She teaches creative writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and offers workshops, keynotes, and custom talks on writing, creative career development, healing through storytelling, and more.
Rooted in the belief that creative expression is essential for liberation, Emilly’s work spans the page, the stage, and the dance floor—all in service of community and collective imagination.
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PNCA’s Low Residency Creative Writing program allows students to build their writing practices with immersive residencies in Portland each summer and winter. This summer's residency is June 20-20. Our faculty include: Alejandro de Acosta, Stephanie Adams-Santos, Sara Jaffe, LaTanya McQueen, Megan Milks, Poupeh Missaghi, Emilly Prado, and Dao Strom. Our guest artists are Ahnika Wood and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Faculty and guest artists give talks, generative workshops, and public readings---all are free, open to the public.
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FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Lemelson
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
