Kitchen Kauldron, an original immersive game, was created by a team of game designers and concept artists in ArtCenter's Entertainment Design program. Read more about Game Design at ArtCenter.
Featured Course What's Your Story A blend of selfie culture with community archiving, this course is a multi-year effort by the Photography and Imaging Department to create a portrait of the people of Los Angeles across a breadth of communities. Designed as a city-wide project with volunteer parti...
Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympics. In this Designmatters course, students examine how resources and spaces are impacted when a city invites the Olympic Games into its community.
This beginning ceramics sculpture course introduces the methods and vocabulary essential to hand-building and glazing ceramics. Students explore endless sculptural opportunities through a variety of hand-building clay techniques from practices that have endured for centuries to modern patterns and ...
Embedded Interactions is a four-week intensive studio, where students design and build prototypes that utilize a mix of working systems, wizard-of-ozing, and video simulations.
Honoring our full-time undergraduate students achieving a term GPA of 3.80.
This course challenges students to conceive and propose a future vehicle design for a specific automotive brand and timeframe. Students will focus on creative- and critical-thinking methods that support storytelling, concept investigation and vehicle-design development. Through a series of weekly pr...
In this two-semester Graduate Transportation Systems and Design class, students conceptualize and design transportation systems of the future.
Our top-ranked department has produced a distinguished network of illustrators working as conceptual artists, print and magazine illustrators and education entrepreneurs,
ArtCenter's tightly-knit community of Fine Art alumni spans a wide variety of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, video and functional art.
Notable alumni from the Interaction Design program.
Our course of study encourages students to work closely with industry professionals to develop and shoot personal narrative, documentary and commercial work.
Notable Transportation Design Alumni from around the world.
Illumination integrates hands-on demonstrations, lectures and guest presentations, along with student-driven research and projects, to explore light and materials at a range of scales, including history, theory, psychology and lighting strategies for a variety of spaces.
Create stunning visuals and captivating storytelling with the Bachelor of Science in Entertainment Design at ArtCenter. You bring the passion and imagination; we’ll provide the technological tools, industry expertise, and Hollywood connections. Craft conceptual worlds, spirited animated charac...
ArtCenter's three-track curriculum in Film prepares you for success in directing, editing, or cinematography.
ArtCenter offers minors in Creative Writing, Business, and Material Science.
Spatial Experience Design at ArtCenter offers one of the only industry-focused environmental design programs taught by a faculty of industrial, spatial, lighting, materials and furniture designers and architects
ArtCenter's tightly-knit community of Spatial Experience Designers encompasses leaders the fields of spatial design, store design, interior design, vehicle interiors and furniture design, among many others.
In this transdisciplinary course, students work directly with clients to strengthen Black and minority-owned businesses and brands in Los Angeles.
Yves Behar Design Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO, Fuseproject Claude Zelwegger Director of Design, Google Niklas Gustaffson Director, Global Design and Innovation, PepsiCo Martin Lotti Chief Design Officer, Nike Jordan Brand Audrey Liu VP...
Craft visual narratives and tell world-opening stories as a filmmaker. ArtCenter’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Film equips you with state-of-the-art production equipment, facilities, and post-production tools to make compelling films starting in your first semester. Pursue the film major in...
Concept Designers are visual storytellers who create fantastic worlds, expressive characters and never-before-seen environments from their expansive imaginations. As artists, they create designs for entertainment properties in a variety of industries, including video games, film/tv animation, live-a...
Imagery tells our stories and grounds our most complex ideas. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Imaging degree equips photographers to turn visions into narratives and inspirations into realities. You’ll develop technical prowess, establish deep knowledge of photography concepts, ga...
Summer Teen Classes – Frequently Asked Questions Thank you for your interest in ArtCenter Extension’s summer classes for teens! We've compiled answers to the most common questions to help you prepare for your experience. If your question isn't addressed here, feel free to contact us at ...