Full Circle: Meet Director Libero Antonio Di Zinno ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Libero Antonio Di Zinno (BFA 89 Photography), director: Ive blessed to be on the inside of a brilliant project, Endangered Activism. I got pulled in by Shannon Galpin, my esteemed partner in Mountain2Mo...
2021 Alumni Awards Bruce Heavin, Outstanding Service Award "Giving to ArtCenter is the gift that keeps on giving," says Bruce Heavin (BFA 93 Illustration). "Generosity is not just about money. You could be generous with your time, your empathy." Heavin and his wife Lynda Weinm...
Explore how military veterans are making a difference at ArtCenter and beyond. From groundbreaking design innovations to public service through creativity, discover inspiring stories of resilience, leadership, and impact in art and design.
Venue Parking Parking Transportation The show opens early for sponsors, patrons and special guests with parking available directly at ArtCenters Hillside Campus. Anyone arriving without a special parking pass will be redirected to our off-campus location. ArtCenter will provide free parking and...
Change Lab Podcast Featuring Mari Nakano, Social Impact Designer with the New York City Mayors Office Mari Nakano (MFA 10 Media Design Practices) is a social impact designer and ArtCenter alum deploying design problem solving to improve the lives of at-risk populations around the world. She was rec...
ArtCenter expands a scholarship honoring WWII veteran Ross Dimond Player, offering greater support for undergraduate students while preserving a legacy of service and sacrifice.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 16 Jesse Genet on Using Extreme Learning Experiences to Build Businesses and a Meaningful Life Recently named one of Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business, Jesse Genet has accrued a list of achievements as audacious as it is impressive. She started her first com...
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography: Two Years, Two Paths, One Destiny I was supposed to be a lawyer. A product of perhaps the best quality of public education, I excelled in school and finished my last semester of high school working as the executive intern for the mayor of New York City. I...
André Kim: Environmental Design Alum Glides From Cycling to Starbucks At an upscale Starbucks Reserve coffee bar just south of Los Angeles music venue the Greek Theatre, with zig-zagging wooden countertops and the caffeinated clickety-clack of customers on laptops, Environmental Design alumn...
Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...
Environmental Design alum Seth Baker brings his love of design and nature to the Huntington To say that the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is a Southern California oasis—with gardens, galleries and a research library spread across 207 acres—is an understatemen...
Earths Mightiest Artists Meet the ArtCenter alumni at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Over the past 11 years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)the seemingly unstoppable series of 23 (and counting!) interconnected superhero films that began with 2008s Iron Manhave learned not ...
Bright and colorful illustrations by ArtCenter alum John Parra (BFA 97 Illustration) celebrate dishes that have shaped and influenced American food culture. The six plates hail from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
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...
A. Puicón-Pérez boosts career with online MDes IxD master’s degree Undergraduate alum elevates their work as a community technologist with master’s degree from ArtCenter’s new one-year Master of Design in Interaction Design program More than 20 years ago, A. Puic&oa...
ALUM RAFAEL LÓPEZ ILLUSTRATES HOPE IN CHILDREN’S BOOK SEQUEL THE YEAR WE LEARNED TO FLY “Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours,” says the grandmother of Angelina and her brother in the 2022 bestselling children’s book The Year We Learned to Fly, a sequel ...
After having worked for companies like TBWA/Chiat/Day, in 2019 alumna Lacey Waterman started her own business, Strand Studio, a strategic brand studio.
Alum Rafael López celebrates diversity in children’s book The Day You Begin In The Day You Begin, written by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by award-winning artist and Illustration alumnus Rafael López (BFA 85), a girl named Angelina with caramel s...
To honor the memory of longtime faculty member Leah Toby Hoffmitz Milken and her transcendent typography, ArtCenter has established the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography to advance the research, teaching and understanding of letterform design and typography.
2021+ 2022 Alumni Awards ArtCenter's Alummi Awards Ceremony "It's been about five years since we've had this ceremony, so this is an important evening to bring our community together, to unite us," said ArtCenter president Karen Hofmann in her opening remarks at ArtCenter’s Alumni Awards cer...
EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE ARTCENTER LIBRARY IS A SAFE SPACE OF LEARNING FOR ALL When Mario Ascencio, ArtCenter Library’s college librarian and managing director, was a teenager working at his local public library in southeast Los Angeles, one day a woman came in, speaking to him in Spanish an...
ACCOMPLISHED AND INSPIRATIONAL ALUMNI AND FACULTY HONORED AT THE ARTCENTER AWARDS, THE COLLEGE’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS EVENING Alumni Award Recipients Included Luis Fitch, Rafael López, Bijan Machen, Robert Matsumoto, Thomas Mueller, Nidhi Singh Rathore, Matthew Rolston and Diana Thater. T...
Social innovation designers pioneering new career paths Social innovation designers are changing the way the world works, dedicated to improving everyday life through global health and sustainable development, public policy and social entrepreneurship. Without the career paths afforded by more...
Illustrator Medar de la Cruz spoke about his work and ArtCenter experience as part of IdentificarX exhibition programming celebrating Latina/e/o/x ArtCenter alumni.
Film alumnus and cinematographer Larry Fong (BFA 89) has shot groundbreaking music videos and more than $1.6 billion worth of Hollywood blockbusters directed by filmmakers he befriended at ArtCenter. On break between giant gorilla reboot Kong: Skull Island (opening March 10) and pre-production for S...