Service/Support Animal Policy Pets and other animals are restricted on ArtCenter’s Campus with the exception of service and support animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals who work with service and support animals shall not be excluded from ArtCenter&rsquo...
Degree:BS 90Advertising Got milk? Nearly as ubiquitous as milk itself, this advertising slogan sparked countless parodies and imitations as well as a variety of licensing deals. Its not surprising that an ArtCenter grad was one of the key creators behind the Got Milk? campaigndirector, writer and cr...
Storyboard: Julian Ryder Coming full circle Ive heard that in life people can have one of three things: they can have a job, they can have a career or they can have a calling. Im very fortunate to have had all three. The journey has been long. The calling came late. It all started in high school ...
Storyboard: Elizabeth Gray Bayne Chocolate Milk and Other Wonders of Being Human Though I loved movies growing up, I never thought that I would become a director. Instead, I spent most of my childhood reading about science, taking art classes and writing and illustrating my own stories. Like many...
Storyboard: Tracy Wong Scared out of my wits The catalog scared me. The student gallery scared me. The lingering nightmare of not getting in and spending my entire career working a high-speed copier at Kinkos scared me. Being surrounded by the most gifted art and design students in the world that...
Storyboard: Jack Telnack A Ford Man When I was a kid, Dad used to take me to the Ford Rotunda in our hometown of Dearborn, Michigan. Being an autoholic from an early age, I remember when I first saw the 1941 Lincoln Continental on display. I was five at the time. The car was designed by Bob Gregor...
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Storyboard: Ron Galella When the world was my studio When was the last time you saw your favorite celebrity having a raw, honest human moment in front of a camera? Im not talking about somebody picking their nose or taking their dog for a walk. When was the last time you saw a famous person and th...
Christina Yang I owe it all to my dad, the old-school ArtCenter grad When I was a kid, my dad worked in animation. He would bring home samples of art from his workplace and I couldnt get enough of what he was showing me. Among the things he shared with me were character animation tests, samples of...
Storyboard: Zach Leazer How a life in the Air Force prepared me for a life making movies The first time I ever directed anything, I was still serving in the United States Air Force. I know thats a weird concept, but just hear me out for a second. I was an airplane mechanic doing my first tour of ...
Storyboard: Tom Cordner The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection It may seem strange for an ArtCenter grad to admit that they havent always been a great student. In my case, though, it would be true. As a kid growing up in Baltimore, I found it damn near impossible to sit still and focus in a classro...
Storyboard: Frank Lanza Making sense of the gifts Ive been given There werent many distractions when I was a kid. There was no television, no internet. At the most, my friends and I would listen to serials on the radio. Of course, we had plenty of time on our hands. Invariably, I would end up ask...
Storyboard: Kit Hinrichs Narrative Design: A 50-Year Perspective In trying to impress upon young designers how radically design has changed since I was a student at ArtCenter, I often use the analogy: First, there was cave painting, and then, I entered the field. A few years after I began my care...
Storyboard: Gary Meyer Frightening Blankness, Failure and the Larger Tapestry of History Nothing is more daunting to a designer than a blank canvas. Why does this image fill creatives with such dread? Because it represents the beginning. Whats more is that the blank canvas represents questions: q...
Alcohol And Illegal Drugs Policy ArtCenter is committed to providing its students, faculty and staff with an environment that promotes safe andresponsible social interaction, and is required by law to provide you with our written policies on these issues. ArtCenters concern over the illicit use an...
Photographer Evelena Ruether and painter William Kaminski co-founded Control Room, an independent artist-run space, after graduating from the Fine Art department.
Art Center president (and theater director) offers expert advice to creatives upping their presentation skills Its a chilly Wednesday morning in late November, and its showtime for a dozen students in Petrula Vrontikis Creative Presentations and Critiques class. Gathered in semi-darkness in the nea...
Storyboard: Sean Adams Design as Public Service Unlike many of my contemporaries, being creative was never part of my plan. Both sets of my grandparents came from a long line of politicians. They used to say, A life without service is not a life. It was expected by both of my parents that I would...
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...
Lily Lin: Recipe for Creating a Leader Lily Lin, ArtCenters Summer 2020 Student Leadership Award winner, who described her high school self as a shy, back-of-the-class person governed by fear and uncertainty, pushed herself to move from Canada to California to attend ArtCenter. I knew I no longer w...
Lisa M. Sanchez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Vice President, Human Resources Biography Lisa M. Sanchez began her human resources career in 1995. As an HR practitioner, with nonprofit, public and private sector experience, she has executive leadership, knowledge and expertise in benefits, compensation, classif...
Sam Holtzman Director of Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning Biography Sam Holtzman has a PhD in educational leadership, policy, and evaluation from the University of Virginia and has lived and taught around the world. Originally from Palo Alto, he grew up moving around, and continued afte...
Meet photography alum and army veteran Brian Paumier (BFA 98 Photography)
Storyboard: Scott Yu Leaving the world brighter than you found it As far back as I can remember I always wanted to draw cars. Years later, that very same compulsion would turn into a full-on devotion to sustainable design thinking. I came from a typical immigrant family. My father was a dentist w...
Storyboard: Jo Ann Shimizu Stabile A reverie on becoming me I was born and raised in Tokyo. My work has brought me all over the globe, though I currently reside in Oakland, California. I suppose what you may be asking yourself is how I ended up at ArtCenter. When I was still in Tokyo, my dad wou...