For artist Neil Shigley, documenting San Diego's homeless population in large-scale block-printed portraits is a labor of love.
A multi-space installation work by Los Angeles artist Eli Smith, Today Is Your Birthday is an inquiry into the labor of both forgetting and remembering across generations. This series of scripted spaces, closed to the public and presented virtually, is a post-immigration story for a post-Trump real...
"90/300: A Measure of Representation" celebrates the achievements of ArtCenter's Black alumni while critically reflecting on the college's history of advancing fewer than 300 African-descended graduates in 90 years.
Research collective to explore how scholars, artists, filmmakers and visual storytellers understand the ways Black girls are valued across film and media ArtCenter College of Design has established The Global Institute for Black Girls in Film & Media (The Institute), a research collective d...
Redesigning the Movies: How ArtCenter is Uniquely Educating the Next Generation of Filmmakers Jack Foley (photo by Alex Aristei) At ArtCenter I would become an artist. At any other school, I would become a guy who makes movies. During a break on the set of Man of Steel, the up...
Concepts Are Not Enough: Alumna Lynn Aldrich Finds Beauty In The Physical Nature of Things Lynn Aldrich (MFA 86 Art) doesnt seem to be able to make up her mind. She wants objectshard, cheap, common objectsand ideas as well. And the ideas can get bigphilosophical, celestial, even: She wants her ar...
Photography alumna Barbara DuMetz is a one woman force In the summer of 1967, Photography and Imaging alumna and pioneering commercial photographer Barbara DuMetz, then 20, took her new Kodak Instamatic—a gift from her dentist father—and walked through her Detroit neighborhood, photogra...
Elle Hearns leading movements and moving mountains for Black trans women.
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
Williamson Gallery exhibition features photographs by Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, an exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opens Friday...
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—...
As part of the IdentificarX exhibition, four creatives came to campus for the Alumni Panel Discussion, Saturday, June 29, to share their journeys into their respective fields, the impact of an ArtCenter education, and the challenges of working in the arts.
Praised as a Case Study in Design Thinking, Invaluable Resource for Design Professionals and Students Designers, especially design students, rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products, images, experiences and environments for them. Therefore, fine distinctions between ...
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...
The Force Is Still Strong With Him Ralph McQuarrie (BFA 56) As the concept artist for the original Star Wars trilogy, Illustration alumnus Ralph McQuarrie (BFA 56) was instrumental in the creation of those films’ fantastical characters and settings. In fact, the late McQuarrie’s p...