An Evening with Walter Murch Wednesday, August 13 in ArtCenter’s Ahmanson Theater Pasadena, Calif. WHAT: ArtCenter College of Design presents a rare public conversation and audience Q&A with one of film’s most celebrated creatives—Academy Award®-winning film editor, sound...
Conversation with Director Nisha Pahuja to Follow the Screening Friday, November 21, 2025 ArtCenter College of Design presents a special screening of To Kill a Tiger, the Academy Award®–nominated documentary from executive producers Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling and Rupi Kaur, and directed by N...
Alvin Oei’s The Healing Tree recognized with top honor in competition highlighting the role design can play to help solve complex social issuesArtCenter College of Design Environmental Design major Alvin Oei won the top prize in the prestigious Sappi North America’s Ideas that Matter soc...
Illustrator and Honoree Adam Dix to Deliver Commencement Address First-ever, Fully Online Graduate Degrees to be Presented to 17 Students On Saturday, April 19, ArtCenter College of Design will celebrate 139 graduates at a ceremony at the Pasadena Convention Center Grand Ballroom, including 17 ...
Introducing Night Loo, a portable, personal urinal for refugee women and girls Over 2.6 million refugees live in refugee camps that often lack adequate access to basic amenities such as food, water, and first aid. Women and girls living in refugee camps face another problem – the threat of se...
ArtCenter College of Design is pleased to announce alumnus Matthew Rolston as the 2023 ArtCenter Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and will honor him at the College’s Alumni Awards ceremony on September 27, 2025. Rolston is being recognized for his meaningful contributions to the College a...
PASADENA, CA –ArtCenter College of Design is pleased to announce that ChromaCorp, created by students from the College’s Game Design program, has won the highly competitive alt.ctrl.GDC Audience Award at the 27th Annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. The awards are part of the ...
ArtCenter College of Design is thrilled to announce that Chromacorp has won the Live Action Award at the IndieCade 2024 Festival, making it the third year students from the College’s Game Design program have been nominated at the festival, and the second consecutive time winning in this catego...
Award to be Presented at The ArtCenter Awards Ceremony on September 27, 2025 Special Conversation With the Artist to Be Held on October 4, 2025 PASADENA, CA – ArtCenter College of Design is pleased to announce that acclaimed artist, educator, writer, curator and alumna Diana Thater&...
ArtCenter Students Receive IDSA Regional Student Merit Awards Karen Hofmann, provost of ArtCenter College of Design, was presented with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Education Award during the organization’s annual International Design Conference in recognit...
Today, ArtCenter College of Design announced the appointment of award-winning animation production designer Guillaume Aretos as chair of its Entertainment Design department. “I’m very pleased that Guillaume Aretos will be joining ArtCenter. He is an exceptional individual who is well su...
Dear ArtCenter Students, We are writing to let you know of the exciting progress we are making on our plans for the Fall 2020 semester. In particular, we are happy to update you on a first phase of campus reopening that we anticipate for several courses and educational services. Although the time t...
on view at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery Courtyard Exhibition dates: June 24 through September 12, 2021 ArtCenter Exhibitions announces the installation of “Study for a Palindrome,” an outdoor sculpture by Los Angeles artist and ArtCenter faculty John David O’Brien, in ...
Long-envisioned Center Honors Faculty Member Leah Toby Hoffmitz Milken, Aims to Elevate Typographic Education, Expand Research and Teaching, and Serve as a Global Resource (NOTE TO EDITORS: High-resolution images and video are available for download from this online gallery.) (Pasadena, Calif.) De...
Diversity and Access Awards make it easier for ArtCenter students to gain valuable life experiences and develop global competencies “Every day was inspiring and now, having returned home, I feel ready to translate that inspiration into my academic and professional practice. This was my first ...
Pandemic Spotlights Inequities of Technology Design and Need to Create More Inclusive Learning Environments As the pandemic highlights our dependency on access to information through technology, the need to design for people with disabilities has become more important than ever. ArtCenter Col...
The following opinion piece was published by Pasadena Now on June 14, 2023. By Karen Hofmann, president, ArtCenter College of Design During its nearly hundred-year history, ArtCenter College of Design has continued to grow and evolve as one of the country’s preeminent schools of art and de...
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, Over the last few days, the situation in Ukraine has escalated beyond imagination. Russia’s military operation raises deep concern for many members of our community and compounds the anguish some of us have felt on several matters these last few years. Furthe...
Praised as a Case Study in Design Thinking, Invaluable Resource for Design Professionals and Students Designers, especially design students, rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products, images, experiences and environments for them. Therefore, fine distinctions between ...
New book Work Wise offers easy to remember straight talk geared to Millennials and Gen Z workforce You’ve completed your college classes and done well. You’re prepared, at least in an academic sense, to graduate. But what about the vital real world lessons, often ignored by academia, th...
First African American Undergraduate Department Chair in College’s History Award-winning photographer and educator Everard Williams has been named chair of the Photography and Imaging Department at ArtCenter College of Design, as announced today by Interim Provost Dr. Anne Burdick. Williams ...
Exhibition dates: September 11, 2024 – February 15, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, September 28, 2024, 5–8 p.m. On view at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. ArtCenter College of Design is proud to announce the exhibition jinseok choi: Befor...
As we approach mid-terms and enter the last half of the term, ArtCenter is moving toward extending campus access to pre-pandemic operating conditions to better accommodate the needs of our students while continuing to provide access to campus in a way that supports the safety and health of the ArtCe...
on view at Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery In 1956, 18-year-old Kwame Brathwaite picked up a camera and began capturing images from the dimly lit jazz clubs that he frequented in the Bronx. For over six decades, the photographer would devote his career to perceptively documenting life and cultur...