Academic Affairs Contact List Office of the Provost Anne BurdickProvost provost@artcenter.edu India DunningtonSenior Coordinator, Office of the Provost india.dunnington@artcenter.edu626 396-2408 Academic Operations Jay SandersAssociate Provost jay.sanders@artcenter.edu626 396-23...
Informed Consent The annual Graduate Employment Survey is an important activity that helps the College to examine professional and academic career outcomes and improve its understanding of post-graduation activities, to enhance educational and student life programming for current and future student...
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.
In the figure drawing course Inventive Costume, Associate Professor Will Weston teaches Illustration students the basics of clothed figure drawing while introducing the history, techniques and purpose of costume design. Observing live costumed art models, students not only learn how to draw draper...
This foundational course is part of ArtCenters newly launched Game Design Track, a specialization allowing students to learn skills vital to launching a career inthe rapidly growing video game industry. Students will learn to analyze and appreciate gamesas they would a piece of literature or art. Fr...
How would you describe this class to prospective students? This class is an immersive study abroad class in Berlin using contemporary photography as the basis for investigation, production and research. It is a project-based class that requires diligent photographic inquiry into a specific aspect ...
Students get a taste of living fashion history by sketching live, costumed models in this Product Design course offered as an elective in the Wearables and Soft Goods track. Focusing mainly on fashions from the 20th century, students sketch all types of clothing, accessories and decorative embellish...
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 ...
Honoring our full-time undergraduate students achieving a term GPA of 3.80.
ArtCenter's extension programs offer inspiring courses for artists and designers at any level. Dive into our rich tradition of creative education.
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...
ArtCenter College of Design offers a Game Design track as part of the BS in Entertainment Design degree program with a focus on video game development.
Spatialdesign considers itself a global platform for design. We create for people of the world and look at our process as holistic. For us to do that, we must understand the value that each and every person brings to the table. That starts in the classroom with our broad origin of students, a divers...
Illustration hosted the Designmatters On the Fence studio, where students were challenged to design and install a large scale mural on the topic of youth unemployment.
Celebrate ArtCenter graduates at our biannual Graduation and Grad Show. Explore student work, connect with recruiters, and experience the culmination of creative excellence.
Blue Note Therapeutics engaged ArtCenter to develop a Sponsored Project that equipped students to build a digital, FDA-approved device that allows oncologists to prescribe mental health care in a way that engages more patients.
Formerly the Bachelor's in Advertising program, ArtCenter College of Design's Creative Direction degree prepares students for Creative Director job roles.
ArtCenter's Graduate Interaction Design faculty of leading professional designers encourages students to apply technology creatively and invent new approaches to interaction and design.
Guided by faculty members who are noted professionals, Graphic Design students develop sophisticated typographic and image-making skills working across both emerging and traditional media.
In the fall of 2014, Designmatters and ArtCenter’s Product Design department collaborated with the Nike Foundation, Yale School of Management and fuseproject to address the challenge of empowering adolescent girls living in poverty around the world. Student teams on both coasts built on ...
Program Learning Outcomes Mission Statement Our Department is about: “Designing the total Spatial Experience” from the first moment of encounter to the last moment of interaction. We believe that the strength of a project’s message is based in the power of our design story and th...
For undergraduate students interested in a design degree but unsure what area to pursue, ArtCenter College of Design offers a First Year Immersion program.
In this comprehensive overview of contemporary food photography, students study the characteristics of food, concept development, as well as lighting and styling techniques. During a photo shoot, students have the opportunity to observe and assist a professional photographer, as well as a food and p...
In the Animation track of ArtCenter's BS in Entertainment Design students develop core skills in character animation, directing, storyboarding, modeling, layout, previs and lighting. Learn more.
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