Renowned photographer and ArtCenter alumnus Lee Friedlander received the College's Lifetime Achievement Award on December 19, 2020, as part of the 14th Annual Alumni Awards. Friedlander had previously been awarded an honorary doctorate in 2005.
Alum Don Burgess, whose film credits include Forrest Gump and Spider-Man, wins American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award
Internships Give ArtCenter Students a Leg Up on the Job Market Near bohemian boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and zippy electric scooters on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice, minutes from the Pacific Ocean, Graphic Design student Ricardo Imperial gives a tour of...
Co-founder of Xiaomi Corporation, De Liu (MS 15 Industrial Design) has received the 2022 ArtCenter Alumni Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement. Liu has deployed the strategic thinking he cultivated during his time in the Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) program at ArtCenter to usher a ...
Hiroshi Sugimoto (BFA 74 Photography) is an internationally renowned artist, photographer and architect whose esoteric practice has explored and redefined human concepts of perception, space, time and light.
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 ...
Graduate Graphic Design alum Alex Seth’s work is a meditation on place and time When it comes to his vivid and heady work, recent alumnus and Canada native Alex Seth (MFA 18 Graphic Design)—a transmedia graphic designer in ArtCenter’s Marketing and Communications Department—...
Summer 2024 Student Leadership Award winner Ciara Hart championed the power of community.
Azeez Alli-Balogun (MS 18 Industrial Design) has received the 2022 ArtCenter Alumni Award for Young Innovator. As Head of Design at the XQ Institute, Alli-Balogun leads product design of a transformative educational architecture to make high school education more equitable.
Spring 2024 Student Leadership Award winner Nini Chen promoted a culture of inclusivity.
Fall 2024 Student Leadership Award winner Lucy Lue encouraged other students.
Fall 2022 Student Leadership Award winner Alejandro Sandoval empowered others at ArtCenter through listening, learning and bringing people together.
Summer 2023 Student Leadership Award winner Lucas Thin fostered inclusivity and collaboration among other students.
Meet Product Design student Jordyn Aamot who won the Wanted Design 2020 Conscious Design Award for her Enliven furniture collection.
As a leader at ArtCenter, Spring 2022 Student Leadership Award winner Cheng Chi supported the success of other students with knowledge, empathy and insight.
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...
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...
Spring 2023 Student Leadership Award winner Keerthana Menon created an inclusive and collaborative environment at ArtCenter for other graduate students.
Summer 2022 Student Leadership Award winner Melissa Fernandez embodied leadership at ArtCenter with their commitment to activism, community and addressing inequities.
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 2 / Illustration Alum Martin Grasser San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
Artificial Knowing: Media Design alumnaefight discrimination, onealgorithm at a time In an airy, white loft space, in a fantastical art deco factory building in downtown Los Angeles, Media Design Practices (MDP) alumnae Christine Meinders (MFA 2017) and Selwa Sweidan (MFA 2016) are working to gathe...
Meet upper-term illustration student Noah Minuskin, who moonlights as a master tattoo artist in L.A.'s downtown Arts District.
Why did Illustration alumnus and co-director of the Academy Award-nominated "The Dam Keeper" Robert Kondo leave the familiarity and security of working Pixar to start up animation studio Tonko House?
HQ:LA – Creatives calling L.A. home / Part 2 / The Tastemaker: Yo Santosa For creative professionals, the allure of Los Angeles goes far beyond ‘You can’t beat the weather.’ In this series, we invite you to meet three thriving entrepreneurs who have made the City of Angels t...
Meet Oscar Nominated Film Editor and ArtCenter Mentor Billy Weber Film department mentor and Academy Award-nominated editor Billy Weber has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Terrence Malick, Tony Scott and Martin Brest. In this intimate caree portrait, Weber opens ...