The century-old school is fighting to find its identity. Credit: KELLY O

The century-old school is fighting to find its identity.

The century-old school is fighting to find its identity. KELLY O

Both people who have led the charge for radical changes at Cornish College of the Arts may be leaving their jobs. Cornish’s provost, Moira Scott Payne, was in Portland this week interviewing for the presidency of Pacific Northwest College of Art. (She declined to comment about it.) If she gets the job, work will begin August 1, according to the PNCA website.

Scott Payne’s boss is definitely leaving. Nancy Uscher announced at the end of last year that she’s not interested in staying on as Cornish’s president beyond her original five-year contract. She’s out as of July.

I actually don’t know whether a double departure would bring more disarray or less to Cornish…

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...