Mentorship Program pairs students with mentors: Jerron Hess and Karen Kuo This story is part of a series on mentors and mentees in ArtCenter’s Career and Professional Development (CPD) Mentorship Program. In the program, students have the opportunity to be mentored by ArtCenter’s alumni...
The Reel Thing: Meet Film Producer Maja Zimmermann ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Maja Zimmermann (BA 99 Film) film producer: For the past four and a half years, Ive been working on Killing Jesus. It recently premiered at the Toronto film festival and now were traveling the world wit...
Animation to Gaming: See ArtCenter alumni artists at first annual LightBox Expo With the flick of a wrist (plus developed skills and a lot of effort), artists create colorful characters and worlds that suck in audiences all over the world. Lucky for us, more than 250 of these top artists—inc...
Alumna Alison Elizabeth Taylor Captures the Disappearing Landscape When Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor (BFA 01 Illustration) returns home to visit family in and around her hometown of Las Vegas, she sees both more and less than she remembers: The open desert shed played in as a kid s...
Graphic Design alumna and UX designer Petra Wennberg (BFA 94), co-founder of Pasadena-based Interactivism, designs brands and digital products based on research, data and intuition.
Californians Abroad: Testlab Berlin Expands Students Creative Horizons The California Dream is alive and well in the global cultural capital of Berlin. Not only because 22 ArtCenter students were immersed in two Study Away studios this past summer, but because itself is a coveted idea, an enduring...
Reunion magic, unlocked. When our extended creative family comes together — alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends — it’s always a celebration of stories, studio tours and spontaneous bursts of inspiration. From welcome gatherings and art markets to the ArtCenter Awards and ...
BOLD webinars led by alumni and experts who thrived during the turbulence of the financial crisis of 2008 and other periods of economic and cultural change.
Alum Don Burgess, whose film credits include Forrest Gump and Spider-Man, wins American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award
Turn Up the Volume Sound Design for Media teaches how to craft sound If you could sculpt and shape the soundtrack of your life, what would it sound like? A hip-hop anthem, a rock song, an R&B melody or pounding electronic dance beats? What about all the blips, noises and sonic textures in betw...
Power in Partnership: Industry Collaboration Prepares Students for Success The day Max Knecht pulled a squid, a walrus, a deer and a bunny out of a bright green vintage suitcase is the day he landed his first big deal as a designer. “It was a formal meeting in [Knock Knock company founder and...
Building a more inclusive house: ArtCenter series explores design futures beyond the Bauhaus Founded as an art school in 1919, Germany’s Bauhaus—meaning “house of construction” or “building house”—is often characterized as emphasizing minimalism, sleek line...
PSYCHIC LIBERATION: FINE ART’S SOUND LAB MAKES WAVES OF NOISE On a recent Friday night in July, Fine Art student Mehregan Meysami stands behind two tables heaped with music equipment—a turntable, mixer, black audio cables, effects pedals and more—on the spacious second floor of th...
Kristina Ortega: Intel from the Inside Intel made waves in the technology sector this week by announcing its new strategy to transform itself “from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices.” One major component of Intel’s ...
Every Moment From Every Second Alumnus and Adidas innovation head AL VAN NOY spoke quietly, lived fully and made sure good ideas, and good people, rose to the top “A good designer must be attuned to people’s needs and how those needs change over time,” wrote Product Design a...
Students from a variety of the College's departments, including Transportation Design, Interaction Design and Media Design Practices, explore how the car experience will change by 2025 in a Jaguar Landrover sponsored project.
Mentorship Program pairs students with mentors: Giah Kim and Nicci Yin This story is part of a series on mentors and mentees in ArtCenter’s Career and Professional Development (CPD) Mentorship Program. In the program, students have the opportunity to be mentored by ArtCenter’s alumni an...
Read the April 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include spring graduation, IdentificarX, Sexual Assault Awareness Month and more.
Kristina Halcromb is a freelance artist, figure model and teaches art in various mediums. She works on personal projects for her brand, image and artistic style.
ARTCENTER’S GLOBAL COMMUNITY HUBS FOSTER CONNECTION WHILE STUDENTS LEARN REMOTELY It’s a blue-skied fall day, and ArtCenter students are busy at work inside a bright and airy studio space with long white tables at Beijing-based EXR International Art Cultural Exchange Co, Ltd., founded b...
Unexpected Landings Careers don’t always follow a linear path. Just ask Coola founder Chris Birchby and celebrated chef Justin Pichetrungsi, two alums who wound up in places very different from where they’d envisioned themselves. Sometimes—oftentimes—life throws you a curve...
The annual gathering on teaching and learning in art and design included inspiring sessions by ArtCenter faculty, staff, students and alumni
It seems like the experts all agree that a future of autonomous cars is inevitable, but what kind of services will automakers have to provide to convince the public to hand over the keys of their cars to Apple, Google or Uber?
Read the September 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include Rashaad Newsome: Hands Performance, DreamWorks Animation, Student Spotlight and more.
Read the June 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include Keith Haring's A Public Thing, IdentificarX, Pride celebrations and more.