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 ...
Diana Thater is a pioneering video installation artist who has created a widely exhibited body of work exploring the tensions between mankind and the animal kingdom. Her immersive multimedia pieces focus on issues of conservation, natural and manmade ecosystems and socially-engineered environments.
ACX KIDS CLASS INVENTORS WORKSHOP TEACHES STUDENTS PROBLEM SOLVING Think of three ways to brush your teeth without using your hands, sketch those ideas, and then turn them into products. Thats a prompt alumnus Nas Oh (BFA 11 Illustration), a production designer for movies, music videos and commerc...
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...
Featured Vehicles 1931 Ford "A" Roadster David Martin 1937 Talbot Lago Type 150 CS Teardrop Coupe Peter Mullin Automotive Museum Foundation 1956 Maserati A6G/2000 Prototype Paul Merrigan 1958 Fiat Mirafiori Factory Shuttle Car Stuart Parr 1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero Phillip Sarofim 1990/2006...
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 involving...
This edition of the 4x4 Gallery features recent work by alumni whose contributions as design innovators span half a century. Yves Bhar Since forming San Francisco-based Fuseproject in 1999, Swiss-born multidisciplinary designer Yves Bhar (BFA 91 Product Design) has produced triumphs in efficiency...
Its An Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World: Meet Art Director Debbie Pan ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Debbie Pan(BFA 16 Advertising),Junior Art Director, Droga5: Personally, Ive been getting back into 35MM film, shooting more photos of people and places around New York. Ive also been working on ...
Campus Life. Elevated. Situated on 175 wooded acres in the hills above the Rose Bowl, ArtCenters Hillside Campus has never lacked any amount of outdoor green space. Life at the Colleges South Campus, located in an urban setting at the southern gateway to Pasadena, is a different story. In imaginin...
He Shoots, He Scores: Meet Photojournalist Damon Casarez ArtCenter: How do you define success? Damon Casarez (BA 12 Photography and Imaging) Photographer: As being on the right path to achieve goals that youve set for yourself. There are always ups and downs being a freelance artist. But I know wh...
A New Coat: Meet Besame Cosmetics Founder Gabriela Hernandez ArtCenter: Whats the most unique thing youve created? Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 99 Photography) President, Besame Cosmetics: All of our products are historically based. We research makeup and formulas manufactured from different eras and br...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 1: Lynda Weinman on Taking Arts Education Online In the debut episode of ArtCenter’s Change Lab podcast, President Lorne Buchman interviews Lynda Weinman, who partnered with her husband, ArtCenter alum Bruce Heavin, to found Lynda.com in 1995. What began as a m...
Down to a Science: Charles Mauro's expertise in neuroscience-based design research dates back to his ArtCenter education In the not too distant future, neuroscience and design patent law will completely transform the world of design, says alumnus Charles Mauro (BS 71 Product Design), president and ...
Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio jumped at the chance to create a mural to improve the cafeteria of the LIFE Family Shelter in Lower Manhattan, inviting the shelter's clients to workshop their ideas and shape the design of the piece.
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...
This 4x4 gallery features work by ArtCenter alumni in which vivid fashion is inspiration, an abandoned house oozes the blues, music and lights blend into a higher plane of existence and drawings set the stage for paintings both modernist and abstract.
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...
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography alumnus Hiroshi Sugimoto united his creative passions in photography and architecture by designing his own museum, a future home for his artwork, being built in Odawara, Japan.
ARTCENTER’S CHANGE LAB PODCAST HOSTED BY PRESIDENT EMERITUS LORNE BUCHMAN EXPLORES THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CREATIVITY How do artists and designers look at the world starting in childhood? What did they do creatively? How did they feel? Where did those experiences take them in their career...
Outsider Art Esther Pearl Watson (BFA 95) “This is going to be the best summer ever…I know my hot guy is sitting on a couch or mat and wondering if some fine lady is dreaming about him,” muses Tammy Pierce, the unlucky underdog of Unlovable, a graphic novel series by Illustratio...
[YOUR AD HERE]: ARTCENTER AT NIGHT’S INTRO TO ADVERTISING PREPARES STUDENTS FOR MUCH MORE “Just do it.” “Think different.” “Because you’re worth it.” You know those famous marketing taglines. How about creating one of your own? ArtCenter at Night's I...
NASA's Jessie Kawata: Sending Design Across the Universe Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena recently unveiled their findings that liquid methane rains down on the surface of Titan, filling the seas and lakes of Saturn’s frigid moon. "It's a marvelous feat ...
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 ...
Dan Brodnitz on democratizing education at LinkedIn Learning