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    Get to Know ArtCenter

    ArtCenter comprises a diverse community of singularly creative individuals drawn together by the desire to leverage the power of imagination to create change in ways big and small.

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    John Wu Artist's Statement

    Artist's Statement Dads Hands Are Smaller John Ziqiang Wu Dads Hands Are Smaller is a story of my family, also a story of the gift of art. I had no intention of it becoming an art project. But, through the process of making the works, I became inspired to see art in new ways. I had a family emer...

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    Storyboard: Jacques Perrault

    Storyboard: Jacques Perrault Rebuke to Tradition I was born in rural Oregon and I grew up in a town just outside of Bend called Tumalo. As a kid, my old man was a contractor. He was a working-class guy who spent his whole life building houses. Construction and practical know-how was something tha...

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    Chris Hacker

    Storyboard: Chris Hacker Design Across Generations It took me a long time to realize that it was my destiny to become a teacher. As an adult designer, I realized one day there had been some basic things missing in my own education. I felt compelled to go back to the drawing board and help others ...

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    Tim Larson

    Storyboard: Tim Larson Take the roundabout and keep going My pathway to design was always a roundabout one. I grew up in a modest town just east of Portland. As a kid, Portland was the big city. The specter of Nike loomed large over Portlands creative community and its cultural omnipresence serve...

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    Albert Soto

    Storyboard: Albert Soto Shipyard to Shipshape: I Was Never Alone Before I ever heard about ArtCenter, I was studying mechanical engineering at community college. I spent three years there, but it felt like longer. I began taking ArtCenter at Night clases in the spring of 2012. It was an invigorat...

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    Domenique Sillett Buxton

    Storyboard: Domenique Sillett Buxton The Trailblazer I was at a crossroads. And it was only 4th term. Halfway through my time at ArtCenter, I began to feel the idea of becoming a traditional illustrator begin to unravel. I met with my Associate Chair of Illustration Jon Conrad for an informal por...

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    Mike & Hailey Warsaw

    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....

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    Inae Song

    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...

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    Storyboard: Diana Thater

    Storyboard: Diana Thater Debunking the theory of the artist as a lone wolf Recently, I took a trip to Kenya to see three of the last Northern White Rhinos in existence. Suffice to say, this wasnt a vacation for me. I was driven to Kenya by one of the questions that has stayed with me throughout my...

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    Storyboard: Frank Lanza

    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...

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    Storyboard: Devin Hawker

    Devin Hawker Looking behind the curtain When I was growing up, going to the movies was a big deal. It seems hard to believe there was a time before Netflix and Apple TV, but I remember traveling nearly an hour to the nearest movie theater as a kid and submitting to this kind of grand vision that w...

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    Storyboard: Peter Miller

    Storyboard: Peter Miller My strange relationship with structure I grew up enamored with science. I got my first surfboard when I was nine years old, and let it be known that marine biology became my favorite class in middle school. I was fascinated by the empirical nature of the sciences: the nuts...

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    Storyboard: Gale Morris

    Storyboard: Gale Morris Designing with hands that wont do what you want them to I grew up during of WWII. As kids, we built models of Jeeps, tanks and B-25s. Then I started making models of cars, which led to an organization known as the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild. My first attempt at age 12 br...

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    Storyboard: Vincent Zhang and Michelle Kim

    Storyboard: Vincent Zhang Michelle Kim Sharing a Brain and Embracing the Unknown Vincent Zhang and Michelle Kim, current ArtCenter students, are Co-Organizers of the upcoming TEDxACCD event November 4 Beauty of the Fall an exploration of failure. No pressure. Storyboard brought them together to...

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    Storyboard: Nolen Niu

    Storyboard: Nolen Niu A jones for furniture I like to tell people that I furniture when I first visited Europe. Of course, theres a considerable divergence between American and European design. American furniture places a great deal of emphasis on comfort and practicality, whereas Europeans are ...

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    Storyboard: Jahee Kim Lee

    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...

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    Storyboard: Celeste Guarneri

    Storyboard: Celeste Guarneri Sicilian Sensibility: Back-of-the-House at ArtCenter When I was a kid, my mom and dad owned and operated an Italian seafood restaurant. My old man was the head chef, and my mom was the head waitress and bookkeeper. In other words, I was a restaurant kid. My dad emigra...

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    Tim Delaney

    Storyboard: Tim Delaney Tomorrowland Comes True Picture this: the year is 1955. Im a tiny kid, sitting in my parents living room, watching on the television. Of all the segments, I am the most inspired by Which makes sense. is the part of the show about men in space, pioneering ways of technolo...

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    Lisa Stotska

    Storyboard: Lisa Stotska Nourishing your creative self and not letting life get in the way My mom was born in Chicago, an only child. My grandmothers name was Marjorie, but everyone affectionately called her . My grandfather, a lifelong smoker, ended up stricken with tuberculosis, prompting them t...

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    Silvia Fuentes

    Storyboard: Silvia Fuentes Amplifying the voices of the voiceless ArtCenter was where I became passionate about social issues. It was where I learned that advertising, my chosen field of study, could be used to amplify the voices of the voiceless. Toward the end of my senior year, I began to drift...

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    Recent Pasts

    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...

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    C.C. Ybarra

    Storyboard: C.C. Ybarra A passion for youth Ill be the first to tell you that I dont have an arts background. However, Ive always considered myself a lifelong student. My early experiences in the middle-class public school district I was raised in were both good and bad. I truly was exposed to th...

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    David Cawley

    Storyboard: David Cawley From the woodshop to the 3D lab: My journey as a maker My job as a creative is to keep up with technology as it changes. I always wanted to be ahead of the wave. The problems we face remain the same. Its our means of solving problems that have changed. Ive been a maker fo...

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    Errol Gerson

    Storyboard: Errol Gerson From South Africa with Love of Learning Picture this: Im sitting in a grad school classroom in 1971. My professor poses a question, Who would like to NOT complete the thesis for this class? My hand shot into the air like a rocket. My professor then requested that I pay hi...