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...
ArtCenter alum Bruce Geyman (BS 65 Product Design) is the National Museum Curator for U.S. Geological Survey.
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: Mike Hailey Warsaw Drive and focus across generations For this special Storyboard, we speak to designer, alum and trustee Mike Warsaw (BS 1990) and his daughter Hailey, a current student in her third term at ArtCenter. Mike: Going through high school, I loved to draw and make things....
Wendy Adest Emeritus Faculty My path to the arts began with words. I earned my B.A. in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing from U.C. Berkeley, followed by an M.A. from Mills College. But visual art called to me as a second passion, leading me to ArtCenter College of Design, where I graduat...
Storyboard: Pablo Meyer Learning How to Be a Three-Dimensional Thinker I grew up in Mexico in the 1960s. As a child, life was busy. Family activities took up a great deal of my time, and I attended a Montessori Schoolin which children were encouraged to develop their own creative skills at their o...
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 ...
Film and Photography Sound Stages Two fully equipped 4,600-square-foot stages provide ample space to shoot any type of project—from elaborate photo shoots to special effects-enhanced film scenes to entire automotive commercials. A 24-foot strobe box, and multiple lighting modifiers, including...
Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. With a current enrollment of approximately 2,237 students (61% female and 39% male, representing more than 60 countries), the College has a student/faculty ratio of 11 to ...
Storyboard: Mark Fennimore Following in my dad's footsteps by not following in my dad's footsteps When I was a kid, my dad worked for NASA. He started in the Apollo program and after the first man landed on the moon, he transitioned to Skylab and then the Shuttle Program. He was a very pragmatic, ...
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...
Katie Sprague Finding true north Throughout the course of my life, Ive found myself continually returning to one simple question: Why have I devoted my life to this crazy thing called Brand Strategy? Why did I decide to go back for a second round of college in my 30s? Why, indeed. Even as a k...
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...
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A former petroleum executive and holder of two consecutive land speed records, Charlie Nearburg is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
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...
The Earth From Space: JT Reager CuratorJay Belloli interviewsJT Reager, Research Scientist, Surface Hydrology Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How you become interested in studying hydrology and the earth's water cycle?JT Reager: I was trained as an engineer, and I d...
Blockbuster filmmaker Zack Snyder is an alumnus and member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Understand ArtCenter's grading policies, including GPA calculations, term and cumulative GPA impact on academic progress, scholarships, and honors. Learn how grades are assigned and calculated for academic success.
Meet photography alum and army veteran Brian Paumier (BFA 98 Photography)
Storyboard: Nathan Cooke Cheese, idealism and the ripple effect The other night, I experienced a weird epiphany while watching an episode of one of my favorite shows, s Table. In the episode, an earthquake strikes a small village in Northern Italy. The audience is told that a warehouse full of del...
Storyboard: George H. Ladyman, Jr. Handing over the box A lot of ArtCenter graduates recall being blown away by the gallery work when they first take a tour of the school. My experience was no different. I found the quality of the work on display to be intimidating. To put it plainly, I was terrif...
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...
Storyboard: Tom Knechtel Life as a Theater Though Ive been a painter for most of my life, Ive long considered my body of work to be something akin to a theater company. Let me explain. When I was nine years old, my favorite thing in the world was to make stuffed animals. I made them for my friend...