An artist who gravitated to the College when she discovered car design, Transportation Design alumna Christine Park's career has taken her from being a student intern at GM to her current role as a lead exterior designer for Cadillac.
Setting A Scene: Meet Set Designer Assaf Horowitz ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Assaf Horowitz (BS 14 Entertainment Design) lead set designer, Blue Sky Studios: An animation feature that will be out in 2020, but I cant say more than that. AC: Describe a moment in your childhood wher...
Bob Gurr (BS 52 Transportation Design) has received the 2022 ArtCenter Alumni Award for Lifetime Achievement. The last original Disneyland Imagineer was instrumental in creating 100 magical Disney theme park attractions, worldwide, shaping the theme park experience and bringing joy to people of all ...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 20 Dr. James Hollis on Hearing (and Answering) the Call to Create Dr. James Hollis is a celebrated Jungian analyst and prolific author whose work examines the internal and external forces driving the need to lead a meaningful and creative life. Hollis has published fifte...
By unanimous vote, the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee selected a design by undergraduate Environmental Design student Catherine Menard for a memorial to be built in the city's Memorial Park.
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...
American Godsproduction designer Patti Podesta on bone orchards, doors of heaven, andteaching at ArtCenter She styled the Ambassador Hotel setting where Robert F. Kennedy was shot for bio-pic Bobby, designed CIA offices for Emmy-winning Homeland and most recently built a full-sized Viking ship in T...
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...
4x4 Gallery: Alumni who make art into ritual, ritual into art Lisa Park Her own brainwaves serve as creative muse and medium for Lisa Park (BFA 09 Fine Art). Splitting her time between Seoul and New York City, the artist works with biofeedback technology to create performance art pieces involvin...
Meet EntertainmentDesign Student Phillip Burrows Phillip set himself apart from his household full of athletes when he started drawing as a kid. He then followed his artistic inclinations into Miami's prestigious Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) and into ArtCenter's Entertainment Design p...
Sole resistance: alumnus Aarish Netarwala broke the mold with his grit concept for adidas A strategic designer at BCG Digital Ventures in Los Angeles, alumnus Aarish Netarwala (MS 17 Industrial Design) spent the summer of his final year at ArtCenter in an Adidas Sponsored Project, where he and his ...
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 ...
CREATIVE RESILIENCE ALUMNI WHO HAVE SHOWCASED VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH DURING THE PANDEMIC ArtCenter alumni have adapted to change during the COVID-19 pandemic in a wide variety of ways. Some turned inward, while others turned outward. They slowed down or sped up. Meet three alumni who embraced ...
ArtCenter students shine with recent awards and global recognitions, highlighting their exceptional talent and achievements in creativity and innovation.
Product Design students help create face shields for frontline medical workers.
Do What Scares You: Meet Illustrator Nol Ill ArtCenter: Tell us about what inspired your current creative project?Nol ILL (BFA 05 Illustration): When I was asked if Id like to illustrate a childrens book about Halloween, my initial thought was, Yes! Some of my fondest childhood memories were attend...
Space Exploration: Meet Designer Sean Chen AC: What are you working on right now?Sean Chen (BS 15 Environmental Design) architectural designer, Gensler: Mixed-use projects, including waterfront park design in Wuhan, China. AC: How do you define success?SC: Being able to find balance between work a...
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...
BLUEPRINT FOR INNER BEAUTY: MEET ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER ELISSA GEE ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Elissa Gee (MS 16 Environmental Design), Designer, Skidmore, Owings Merrill LLP: I'm helping with an office tower for San Francisco, a university building and an office lobby renovatio...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 29 Saki Mafundikwa and Sadie Red Wing on Decolonizing Design Sadie Red Wing and Saki Mafundikwa grew up a world and two generations apart. Sadie was born into the Lakota tribe and also considers herself a citizen of the Spirt Lake Nation of Fort Totten, South Dakotatwo l...
Layered Urbanism: A New Approach to Campus Connections To help achieve ArtCenter’s goal of creating an exceptional connected campus experience for its students, the College’s master plan outlines a number of innovative and much-needed features for its South Campus location. These includ...
CREATIVE RESILIENCE: ALUM ANA LYDIA MONACO SUPPORTS SELF-LOVE WITH HER FILM SHOT DURING THE PANDEMIC ArtCenter alumni have adapted to change during the COVID-19 pandemic in a wide variety of ways. Some turned inward, while others turned outward. They slowed down or sped up. This story is part of a ...
Down To A Fine Art: Meet Artist, Educator Quinton McCurine ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Quinton McCurine (MFA 11 Studio Art) artist and educator: I am currently working on a series of science-fiction books set to be released in China in Mandarin next year. AC: Whats the one tool yo...
Change Lab Episode 33 Dennis Gassner on the behind his Oscar-winning production design Dennis Gassner was born in Canada; but storytelling is his mother tongue. Its the language and the context -- though which the ArtCenter alum and legendary production designer processes the ideas of a script; ...
Everything Under the Sun Nicholas Alan Cope (BFA 07) Nicholas Alan Cope sees Los Angeles as a city of contrasts, with “dueling public narratives of glamour and cynicism” legible in its stark, modern architecture. In his new book of black and white photographs, Whitewash, he&...