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...
‘HEALING OUR INNER CHILD’: STUDENTS UNVEIL A BRIGHT, BOLD MURAL AT ARTCENTER’S SOUTH CAMPUS Featuring the words “our” and “home” painted in large vertical type, the new mural in the lobby of ArtCenter’s 1111 building (South Campus) is a bold declarati...
Race shows off design ingenuity, triumph over failure and other skills crucial to success in a global, creative economy WHEN: Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. WHAT: The annual Formula-E race ritual ("E" for "elastic") provides corporate and student teams with valuable experience...
Storyboard: Nino Yuniardi Its all about contrast When I was in 9th grade, I discovered the artwork of Salvador Dal and Tino Sidin. I was compelled by the mystery of Dal's shapes and the hallucinatory mood he summoned. I was awestruck by his work and dumbfounded as to how he brought these otherworl...
Community Partnerships From recruitment activities initiated by our Admissions office to outreach efforts led by our Public Programs team, ArtCenter partners with a number of community arts organizations located throughout Greater Los Angeles to build a pipeline for students to pursue an art and de...
Storyboard: Gloria Kondrup My Journey to Type Heaven I was supposed to be a lawyer. During my last semester of high school, I acted as special executive intern for the Mayor of New York. I was a student in the citys accelerated public education programs, and after high school I was supposed to go...
ALUMNA AND ARTIST MARTHA RICHCHANNELS HER RIGHTEOUS ANGER FOR GOOD My mind wanders yet holds on to things, reads Philadelphia-based artist and Illustration alumna and former faculty Martha Richs (BFA 00 Illustration) artist statement. It picks out what it wants randomly and saves it for later. My m...
Storyboard: Mari Nakano Two streams I was raised in a fairly traditional Asian-American family. As far as a career, I believed I had two options: become a doctor or a lawyer. A creative career was out of the question. I mean, where was the stability in that? Part of being a true creative means br...
Storyboard: Lisa Stotska Nourishing your creative self and not letting life get in the way My mom was born in Chicago, an only child. My grandmothers name was Marjorie, but everyone affectionately called her . My grandfather, a lifelong smoker, ended up stricken with tuberculosis, prompting them t...
Storyboard: Jo Ann Shimizu Stabile A reverie on becoming me I was born and raised in Tokyo. My work has brought me all over the globe, though I currently reside in Oakland, California. I suppose what you may be asking yourself is how I ended up at ArtCenter. When I was still in Tokyo, my dad wou...
Storyboard: Matt Haligman The unpredictability of the creative life Heres a scenario for you: Imagine youre the smartest person in the room. Then, one day, imagine that this changes... dramatically. Youre no longer the smartest person in the room. Not even close. In fact, the proverbial is now f...
Storyboard: Tom Suiter Playing in perfect harmony Ive said the following at countless academic presentations and in just as many conversations with friends and colleagues: Nothing Ive accomplished in my decades-spanning career would have been possible without the time I spent at ArtCenter. As a ...
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...
Bonnie holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an MA + MFA in Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University. She has taught multiple subjects through art at inner-city schools for over ten years in Downtown Los Angeles. Motivated by her students to learn, Bonnie went back to school to earn...
Ken Aguado is an Emmy-winning producer, screenwriter, playwright and author. His most recent films are the acclaimed theatrical filmAn Interview with God, which he wrote and produced, and the award-winning PBS documentary Miracle on 42nd Street. His previous producer credits include Standing Up, The...
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
“Nature’s Whip,” a new sculpture created by the fine artist known as Shark Toof is available for public viewing in the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall as part of OUTSIDEIN: The Ascendance of Street Art in Visual Culture, an expansive indoor and outdoor exhibition through May 1st, 2...
Since graduating from ArtCenter, Mariana Prieto (BS 12 Product Design) has worked at the forefront of social change, from addressing challenges facing underserved communities to designing solutions for wild animals.
Hospitality entrepreneur Clarence Daniels is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees
on view at the Peter and Merle Mullin GalleryExhibition dates: September 23 through February 27, 2022 In 1937 a naked Le Corbusier infamously painted eight ‘racy’ murals over the walls of Eileen Gray’s groundbreaking E-1027 house, the modernist villa that she designed on...
Read the April 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include spring graduation, IdentificarX, Sexual Assault Awareness Month and more.
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...
HQ:NY — Environmental Design Alum Hines Fischer Long known as “the city that never sleeps,” New York City can feel chaotic with its cacophony of skyscrapers, subways and noise. But within creative corners of the Big Apple, from a photo studio in Brooklyn to a design firm in Manhat...
Affordable Student Housing, Enhanced Mobility and Elevated Park-like Quad Spanning Metro Tracks in Proposal (Pasadena, Calif.) November 13, 2015 —ArtCenter College of Design has made public its new master plan, charting a 10-year vision for the future of the College’s physical campuses...
The Final Creative Works Will Be Displayed Throughout the Hotel and Via the Property’s Social Media Pages This summer, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE —in partnership with ArtCenter College of Design—is commissioning four student filmmakers to showcase the vibrant and diverse ...