Meet Designmatters Faculty and Brand Strategist Sherry Hoffman Whether Designmatters faculty member Sherry Hoffman is working on Vice's cutting edge offices or a cozy daycare facility as brand strategist for March Studio, her Santa Monica-based branded architecture firm celebrating its 20th anniver...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 23 Rebeca Mndez on dissolving boundaries between art and design and connecting with our animal nature Rebeca Mndez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering ...
Pieces of Resistance: Meet Artist Ellen November ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Ellen November (BFA 73 Illustration) fiber artist, curator of the upcoming exhibition Mapping Out: Im doing work around Gun Sense using an aerial view of Virginia City Municipal Center overlaid with a gu...
4x4 Gallery: Alumnae work in which a yarn installation anda still life feast meet mouth jewelry and llamas wearing sweatbands Pae White Last year, world-renowned mixed media artist and Graduate Art alumna Pae White (MFA 91) installed Spacemanship, a 45-foot-tall site-specific work for the expanded ...
Environmental Design alumna Ariel Johnson never tells the same story twice The staff at Ariel Fox Design are as diverse as the environments they create. My office has been called the United Nations of designers, says owner Ariel Johnson (BS 08 Environmental Design), who launched the Sherman Oaks-ba...
The educational innovators behind lynda.com and The Skool, and the booming business of online learning Were in the infancy of this industry, and theres a lot of room for a lot of different angles on how to attack the problem of teaching online. Lynda Weinman The pioneers Forbes magazine ...
NOT THE WHOLE STORY: ALUMNA MARIA RENDÓN AVOIDS THE LITERAL TO CREATE NEW REALITIES “I make paintings insinuating animal and human forms that appear and disappear in the landscape,” says Illustration alumna and former faculty Maria Rendón (BFA 92), whose paintings explore ...
Shooting for the Sky: Williamson Gallery Exhibition Focuses on Humanity's Shifting Understanding of the Heavens NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, SKY is not currently available for viewing. We hope, however, that you enjoy this essaywith accompanying imageryby the exhibitions curator. An i...
Student leader. Graphic Designer. Latino. Jesus Jacobo, graduating this term with honors and a degree in Graphic Design, is all of these things. Last year he co-founded Yo Soy ArtCenter, a network of Latino/a students across diverse disciplines who share a cultural heritage.
Amy Hill and Chris Riess Pioneers of team directing, their artful, award-winning commercials touch hearts and spark conversation. When Amy Hill came home to her cozy Santa Monica bungalow after a recent East Coast trip for an ongoing assignment documenting opiate addiction, the first thing she did...
Organized by graduate department Media Design Practices (MDP) faculty members Elizabeth Chin and Sean Donahue, the week-long November series Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness brings together writers, activists, artists and designers who explore ethnofuturisms, including Afrofuturism, Chicanix, A...
Illustration student Emilia Cruz pours herself into her paintings and her art on Netflix’s Gentefied In Illustration student Emilia Cruz’s oil painting Am I Too Dark?, a young girl sits on her bed. In one hand, she holds her long black hair, staring down at it. In the other hand, she g...
ArtCenter Trustee Emeritus Frederick M. Nicholas Passes Away at 105 Visionary leader helped lay the foundation for the College’s South Campus Frederick M. Nicholas, Administrator with Will Annexed, The Sam Francis Estate, 1998. Photograph by Anthony E. Nicholas. Fred left an indelible...
Discover how ArtCenter alum Jenny Ha brings form, function, and emotion together as senior manager of exterior design at Lucid Motors, shaping the Lucid Air and Gravity into standout EVs.
Explore the creative mind of Clive Piercy, the founder of Ph.D and Air Conditioned LA, with "Hello, LA: Clive Piercy, Inside the Mind of a Designer" on view through June 24, 2023, at ArtCenter. Discover his life and work in this stunning exhibition at the Williamson Gallery.
Photography alumna and visual anthropologist Penny Wolin's (BFA 76) latest book "Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry," sent the photographer on a cross-country journey to find out why so many practitioners in the field are Jewish.
Serving the client and the muse, two creative minds thrive in advertising while finding an extra measure of freedom in their own work.
FROM INSTAGRAM TO MARC JACOBS: PHOTOGRAPHY ALUMNA DARIA KOBAYASHI RITCH BRINGS HER PRECISE EYE TO FASHION Inside the studio of Photography and Imaging alumna Daria Kobayashi Ritch (BFA 2015), across the hall from her bedroom in her mom’s spacious house in Santa Monica, posters for Gucc...
Graduate Art MFA alum Edgar Ramirez's gritty, colorful paintings focus on industrialized spaces like those found in his home of Wilmington
YES GRL! INTERACTION DESIGN ALUMNA KELLY WELDON TAKES THE WORLD BY STORM When recent Interaction Design alumna Kelly Weldon (BS 2016)—the co-founder of in-the-works female friendship mobile application YesGrl—was growing up in California and Michigan, she loved animals and wanted to be ...
Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff levels up with Brand Design and Strategy MDes Graphic designer paves path as a design leader and community builder with master’s degree from new online Master of Design in Brand Design and Strategy program Since childhood, Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff wanted to g...
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
Meet ArtCenter Alum Jessie Zaud (BFA 90 Graphic Design) Creative Director & President, Zaudhaus.
Graduate Art Chair Diana Thater's empathy for animals is on full display in LACMA's "Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination," an exhibition of video and film installations that dissects the knotty dynamic between humankind and wildlife.
RESONANCE AND WONDER JULIE JOYCE AND CHRISTINA VALENTINE LEAD EXHIBITIONS WITH SHOWS LIKE CANTOS OF THE SIBYLLINE SISTERHOOD At the entrance to the new exhibition Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, currently on display at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on ArtCenter’s Hillside...