Judy Skalsky Memorial Rooftop Garden provides a natural oasis for contemplation and a great location for art openings and intimate gatherings.
Storyboard: Vanessa Stump Finding the Yummy Nowadays, artful food pics are almost as commonplace as selfies. Whether its a famous chef you follow on Instagram, or just a friend who happens to collect photographic evidence of various tasty dinners, theres no escaping the fact that food photography ...
Storyboard: Jessica Muljadi The benefits of culture shock and keeping your finger on the pulse For me, growing up was like a never-ending series of culture shocks. My upbringing was not unique in the slightest, but I did do a lot of bouncing around between different habitats as a kid it often fe...
From the classroom to the cafeteria to our community garden, ArtCenter's sustainability initiatives underscore the importance of careful and continual stewardship of our natural, capital and human resources.
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...
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. ...
Janice Feldman is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Laura Cooper Emeritus Chair Laura Cooper has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BA from the University of California, San Diego. Cooper has been exhibiting since 1986. Trained as a painter, as her interest in plants and environments grew, her work expanded to include installat...
Merle Mullin Philanthropist and Director, Mullin Automotive Museum Merle Mullin enjoys showing, driving and racing Vintage cars along with her husband Peter. She is a co-founder/co-organizer of a biennial vintage car rally for women only. Its All About the Girls! is an exciting, much publicized ev...
Storyboard: Kristen Ding On the right (interactive multimedia) track Its crazy to consider that coming into college I had little idea what graphic design was, given what an integral role design has played in shaping my creative journey. My passion has turned into designing digital products such as...
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...
The Denhart Family Sustainability Scholarship Prize supports the College's developing curriculum in comprehensive design and fosters in students, faculty and staff recognition of environmental responsibility and a commitment to social good.
Explore examples of positions held by our recent graduates and examples of who they are working for.
Storyboard: Joann Jung Do dreamers ever get to where they need to be? I came to America from Korea when I was sixteen years old. The world was a much different place to me then. My mother was a painter. She was a fearless woman and the risk taker in the family. She believed that to be creative me...
Degree: BS 15 Interaction Design Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Inae Song was drawn to the multidisciplinary Interaction Design program at ArtCenter as a field of possibility, a place to envision the future of design even beyond existing technologies and, she says, to apply without constrain...
The Earth From Space: Josh Willis CuratorJay Belloli interviews Josh Willis, Oceanographer, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: Josh, how did you become interested in studying oceanography?Josh Willis: Well I failed out of physics. I was planning to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Califor...
Storyboard: Marina Chang Orrin Shively Marriage of East Meets West in California Orrin Shively: I grew up in Europe and Marina grew up in Asia. Our union truly was the East meeting the West out in California. Marina Chang: Before I ended up at ArtCenter, I was at UCLA for four years, where I maj...
Program:GraphicDesign The College launched the Student/Space video series in fall 2013 to capture the essence of what it means to be an ArtCenter student by illuminating the art of making, from conception to completion. The idea was to capture the agony and ecstasy of creativity itself. So each term...
Program:ProductDesign alainamickes.com In the end, a leader is only as great as her team, and it has been an honor to be a part of the best team in the world. A self-described thinker, maker and former French baker, Summer 2016 Student Leadership Award-winner Alaina Mickes came to ArtCenter with pr...
Rob ClaytonIllustration, 1988 Christian ClaytonIllustration, 1991 claytonbrothers.com The Clayton brothers are Rob and Christian Clayton, who have been collaborating since 1996 on paintings and installations which entwine their styles and palettes. Rob, born in 1963, and Christian, born in 1967, b...
Program:ArtCenter at Night IndustrialDesign I get to fly airplanes and blow things up, says Jesse Ellico, an aerospace engineer for Orbital ATK, when asked to describe his job. s a little boys dream. The first thing Ellico tells students enrolled in his seven-week Introduction to Industrial Design ...
Degree:BFAIllustration thehettemagroup.com Phil Hettema, the president and creative director of The Hettema Group (THG), creates stories you can touch. Since 2002 THG has been interweaving compelling narratives with technology to create experiences with emotional resonance. Through close collaborati...
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...
Degree:BS 12 Environmental Design designbyini.com Ini Archibong was studying at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California when his life pivoted. His passion for business was being overtaken by his passion for art, which he had studied at Polytechnic School, a preparat...
Degree:BFA 87Illustration markryden.com Mark Ryden was named the godfather of Pop Surrealism by Interview in 2010. He first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in this new genre of painting with a host of followers in his wake. He has created a singular style that blurs the traditional ...