Alumni
View photos from the Alumni Awards Celebration at The Broad and Otium
Alumni Awards
The Alumni Awards provide an opportunity for ArtCenter to publicly recognize the talent, service and influence of its alumni. The 2020 Alumni Awards will be presented later this year and all alumni are invited to participate in the process. Please use the online recommendation form to submit your nominations. Past award recipients are listed below. Nominations are due by Friday, June 5, 2020. If you have any questions, please contact us at alumni@artcenter.edu or 626 396-2305. Thank you.
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Doug Aitken BFA 1991
2019 Distinguished Midcareer Award
Sterling Ruby MFA 2015
2019 Outstanding Service Award
Gloria Kondrup MFA 1993
2019 Young Innovator Award
My Journey to Type Heaven
When you’re truly present, creativity and inspiration can come from so many different places.
Nikolai Cornell MFA 04
From ArtCenter to Adidas: Meet Computational Designer Jacques Perrault
The responsibility of creative people is to try and offer less traditional paths of problem solving to those who might benefit from it.
Gala Narezo BFA 01
How to Design a World
And the award goes to...
The ArtCenter Alumni Awards are an annual recognition bestowed by the College with input from internal stakeholders and our global alumni community. FullCircle board members—comprised of alumni, friends, artists
Past Award Winners (2007-2018)
Lifetime Achievement
Recognizing a lifetime of professional and/or creative achievement
- 2007 - Syd Mead BS 1959 (d)
- 2008 - Frank Nuovo BS 1986
- 2009 - Kenji Ekuan BS 1957 (d)
- 2010 - Doyald Young BFA 1955 (d)
- 2011 - Lou Danziger BFA 1948
- 2012 - Bruce Burdick BS 1961
- 2013 - Gordon Bruce BS 1972
- 2014 - Shiro Nakamura 1981
- 2015 - Drew Struzan BFA 1970
- 2016 - Michael Reese BS 1974
- 2017 - Kit Hinrichs BFA 1963
- 2018 - James Miho BFA 1955
Outstanding Service
Recognizing significant service to ArtCenter or realized humanitarian design impact
- 2007 - Ramone Muñoz MFA 1990, BFA 1977
- 2008 - Mikio Osaki BFA 1961
- 2009 - Michael Osborne BFA 1978
- 2010 - Stephanie Sigg MS 1998
- 2011 - Wendy MacNaughton BFA 1999
- 2012 - Gala Narezo BFA 2001
- 2013 - Stan Kong BS 1983
- 2014 - Patrick Kiruki BS 2005
- 2015 - Gary Meyer BFA 1959
- 2016 - Rob Ball BS 1983
- 2017 - Julian Ryder BFA 1972
- 2018 - Paul Bielenberg BFA 1998 and Jahee Lee BFA 1990; MFA 1992
Young Innovator
Recognizing a notable professional or creative innovation, bestowed on a recent alum of the past 10 years
- 2007 - Nikolai Cornell MFA 2004
- 2008 - Dustin Arnold BFA 2004
- 2009 - Eric Benjamin Nyquist BFA 2007
- 2010 - Geetika Agrawal MS 2005
- 2011 - Jonathan Jarvis MFA 2009
- 2012 - John Niero BS 2007
- 2013 - Spencer Nikosey BS 2008
- 2014 - Katie Dill BS 2007
- 2015 - Mari Nakano MFA 2010
- 2016 - Jessie Kawata BFA 2011
- 2017 - Jacques Perrault 2014
- 2018 - Kevin Bethune MS 2012