Faculty Bios

Yelen Aye

Graphic designer and illustrator. Pasadena City College Visual Arts Department.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Fashion Sketching
Fun With Fashion

Anne Marie Bergthold

CLASSES

Digital Media Workshop

Michael Bertino

CLASSES

Cartooning Technique
Drawing the Clothed Figure

Thomas Broersma

B.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Illustrator, Sculptor, Comic Guy, and Fine Artist. Published in TapCab Books, Pasadena Weekly, OC Weekly, FIND Art. Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Clients Include: Mattel, SpinMaster, Hasbro, Jakks Pacific. Course: Comic Illustration.

CLASSES

Comic Book Illustration
The Big Draw

Shawn Bruce

Product Design, Environmental Design, Illustration, Storyboards, Graphics, Photography & Events Space. Press: Los Angeles Magazine, Trend, Wallpaper, Interior Digest, Forbes, Absoluut Architectuur, Surface, Box, The Age, Frame, Metropolis, K+BB. Course: Kid Inventors.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Inventor's Workshop

Tri Desa

CLASSES

Design-A-Robot

Christopher Gehl

Chris Gehl, BFA, Art Center College of Design. Director, Writer, and Producer, living in Los Angeles. His work has been shown on PBS, MTV, and has been featured across North America and abroad.

CLASSES

Behind the Scenes

Monica Guzowski

Artist, Muralist, Set Designer, Scenic Artist. Companies: City of Clinton Showboat, The Red Barn Playhouse, Alpha Theatre Project, Body Politic Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Children's Theatre of Western Springs, Murals by Monica.

EDUCATION

B.A. Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin

CLASSES

Animal Sculpture

Ralph Herscu

Freelance filmmaker, editor, and art director. Participant in the 1st German Film Festival in Los Angeles, Flickers Film Festival.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design
M.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Behind the Scenes

Gail Holding-Howland

Fine art photographer. Landscape and private portrait commissions for collections in the U.S. and Europe.

EDUCATION

B.A. UC Berkeley
B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Photography
Photography Book Workshop

Michael Horowitz

Artist/Illustrator. Michael Horowitz has worked in the animation industry for over 25 years. Michael has been involved with character merchandise, including the position of Character Art Manager for The Walt Disney Company for the Asia Pacific region from 1996 to 1999. Currently, Michael is a freelance illustrator for various companies including Hallmark, Disney, Random House and Nickelodeon.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Otis-Parsons Art Institute

CLASSES

Imagination Workshop

Levon Jihanian

CLASSES

Drawing the Clothed Figure

Steve Kim

Fine artist. Illustrator. Curator for Fluffy Fluffy. Published in New American Paintings, Beautiful/Decay, Computer Arts and featured online in FecalFace, BOOOOOOOM, Supersonic Electronic. Exhibitions in Portland, San Francisco, Berkeley, and throughout Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions with: Marine Art Salon, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Spoke Art, ADC Contemporary.

EDUCATION

B.F.A.
M.F.A.

CLASSES

Painting

Howard Kouo

Little Red Plane, an animated short film. Based on a short story written by Howard Kouo.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Animation

Margaret Lee

Graphic designer and instructor. Senior Lecturer, Packaging Design, Otis College of Art and Design.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

T-Shirt Design

Jeffrey Leon

CLASSES

Designing Cars
Designing Toy Cars

Ronald Llanos

Illustrator, artist, teacher. Ronald enjoys teaching and making art just as much. Possibility is a key ingredient in his motivation to continue making art and passing knowledge and information to his students.Even when he is not actively making art, he is thinking about it or dreaming about it.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Creative Image Making
Illustration

Jeffrey McMillan

Jeff McMillan was born in October of 1977 in San Jose, CA. He attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2004. He now lives and works in Long Beach with his wonderful wife, Liv and a disobedient Siamese cat.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Comic Book Illustration
The Big Draw

Melanie Moore Bermudez

CLASSES

Collaborative Comics
Painting
Portrait Party
Still Life Scavenger Hunt
Wacky Tiny Creatures

Gary Musgrave

CLASSES

The Big Draw

Karlene Nguyen

CLASSES

Design-A-Robot

Atilio Pernisco

Atilio Pernisco has been a full time painter and illustrator for the past 15 years, working with such clients as the Walt Disney Company, Build-A-Bear Workshop and Trader Joes. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and lives in Los Angeles. Atilio spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina a place that has given him an unlimited reservoir of nostalgia. Along with his family, his memories of South America are the main source of inspiration behind his work.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Spring 1992
M.F.A. Spring 2012

CLASSES

Still Life Drawing

Wendy Polish

B.F.A., Art Center College of Design. Freelance Designer/Illustrator. Founder/Owner, Wonderfolk. Clients: Baby Yaya, L.A. Times, Lost & Found, Paramount Classics, Sony Pictures, Viridis Luxe.

CLASSES

DIY Printmaking + Textile

Joseph Powell Jr.

Illustrator and muralist. Celebrity portrait artist for KLSX 97.1 FM Frazer Smith Show.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design

CLASSES

Portraiture / Self-Portraiture
Supersize Me

Rachel Rogov

CLASSES

Painting

Andrew Sklar

CLASSES

Design a Theme Park Attraction

Steven Weissman

Cartoonist and illustrator.

EDUCATION

San Francisco State University
Academy of Art College

CLASSES

Cartooning Technique
Cartooning Technique Workshop