In 1937 a naked Le Corbusier, in a confrontational act, infamously painted eight brightly colored murals over the walls of Eileen Gray’s groundbreaking E-1027 house, the modernist villa the architect designed on the French Riviera. The intrusion into her design infuriated Gray, who considered ...
Illustrator John Parra (BFA 97 Illustration) on growing an artist.
A pioneer in online education, alumnus Bruce Heavin (BFA 93) is an artist, strategist and entrepreneur.
Blockbuster filmmaker Zack Snyder is an alumnus and member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Global designer Michael Warsaw is an alumnus and member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Stephen Nowlin is an artist and co-curator of the Getty PST Project 2024 and Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter.
Alyce Williamson, an emeritus trustee of ArtCenter, is a philanthropist and a well-known figure in the Pasadena community.
Karen Hofmann is the sixth president of ArtCenter College of Design, an international leader in art and design education.
Alum James Paick (BFA 04) created Scribble Studios, an entertainment design firm specializing in character, creature and concept design for video games, TV and film.
Photographer Evelena Ruether and painter William Kaminski co-founded Control Room, an independent artist-run space, after graduating from the Fine Art department.
Graphic Design alum Paul Hoppe works as an art director at Local Projects in New York City, where he specializes in interactive exhibition design for museums, educational institutions, and adventurous corporate clients.
The Surface Design Research Lab houses an archive of surface design projects, a library of leading American Modernist monographs, publications and examples of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, modern surface design publications and a database of surface design influencers, designers and organizatio...
Transportation Design alum Patrick Hanenberger used his skills to build an impressive career as a production designer for animated films such as "Guardians."
Storyboard: Bob Dirig It's the greatest job in the world Think of all the stuff you throw away each day. Almost all of it has no inherent value, right? Try telling that to an archivist. For instance, several years ago, the Library at ArtCenter College of Design received a substantial donation fr...
Jennifer May Executive Director, Designmatters Biography Jennifer May is the executive director of Designmatters, the social innovation department at ArtCenter College of Design, where she oversees a dynamic portfolio of cross-disciplinary partnerships, curricular and extracurricular projects and...
Lou Danziger Emeritus Faculty Lou Danziger (BFA 48 Advertising) is a pillar of West Coast design. He has worked as a designer, art director and consultant since 1949, bringing his talents to a diverse list of institutions, from Microsoft to the NEA to ARCO to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...
The Sinclaire Pavilion is an inviting, open-air space for students to get away from the normal hustle and bustle found inside the neighboring Ellwood building. Designed in 2001 by interdisciplinary architecture and design studio Hodgetts + Fung, the 3,000-square-foot pavilion includes informal gath...
Meet Mia Ferrera Wiesenthal, an Associate Professor and Industrial Design Consultant. Learn how she facilitates connections between students and industry professionals and her perspective on the importance of design in today's world.
Film alum and instructor Dan Bartolucci is an esteemed Autodesk Flame artist and VFX editor who has worked on "Captain America", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" and "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1."
ArtCenter has established this Intellectual Property Policy to promote a varied and rich educational experience by ensuring that ideas can be freely exchanged, but with an understanding that work product can have value.
An immersive installation exploring deep-sea ecology, extraction, and human-nature kinship through video, sculpture, and sound by Patty Chang and David Kelley. On View at ArtCenter College of Design from September 18, 2025 to January 24, 2026
ArtCenter Exhibitions announces the launch of Recent Pasts, a two-part project to be presented online and at ArtCenter DTLA. Recent Pasts considers the changes and perpetual re-calibration in arts education and institutions in the 21st century; and in the social, political, economic, and cultural c...
Storyboard: Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo Luc Limbourg ArtCenter Europe Forever In this edition of Storyboard, we meet the co-chairs of ArtCenter AlumNetwork Europe Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo and Luc Limbourg. This trifecta of connectors talks about bonds forged and an idea that sparked a c...
Storyboard: Jahee Kim Lee An Invisible Support System as a Way of Teaching I was born into an old-fashioned Korean family. My father was a pastor and my mother was a social worker. My mother wore traditional Korean clothing called and was determined to only wear grey and beige Hanbok, to honor th...
A multi-space installation work by Los Angeles artist Eli Smith, Today Is Your Birthday is an inquiry into the labor of both forgetting and remembering across generations. This series of scripted spaces, closed to the public and presented virtually, is a post-immigration story for a post-Trump real...