Twenty one actions you can take to help the environment. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, The Earth from Space, which brings together well-known historic photographs of our planet as well as videos.
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...
Safe Agua is an interdisciplinary program by Designmatters that endeavors to bring design thinking to the area of "water poverty" in the developing world.
Alumna Alison Elizabeth Taylor Captures the Disappearing Landscape When Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor (BFA 01 Illustration) returns home to visit family in and around her hometown of Las Vegas, she sees both more and less than she remembers: The open desert shed played in as a kid s...
The Earth From Space: JT Reager CuratorJay Belloli interviewsJT Reager, Research Scientist, Surface Hydrology Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How you become interested in studying hydrology and the earth's water cycle?JT Reager: I was trained as an engineer, and I d...
The Earth From Space: Josh Willis CuratorJay Belloli interviews Josh Willis, Oceanographer, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: Josh, how did you become interested in studying oceanography?Josh Willis: Well I failed out of physics. I was planning to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Califor...
Abigail Dergarzarian: Creating a culture of collaboration Acknowledging the social isolation that comes from the intense ArtCenter student experience, Fall 2020 Student Leadership Award Winner Abigail Dergarzarian was searching for community when she started an AIGA (American Institute of Graphic D...
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...
The Earth From Space: Derek Posselt CuratorJay Belloli interviewsDerek Posselt,Atmospheric Physics and Weather Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How did you become interested in atmospheric science?Derek Posselt: Ive always been interested in science from a very young...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 22 Mariana Prieto on Social Innovation for Wildlife Mariana Prieto is a social innovator in the purest sense of the term. From the moment she collected her degree in Product Design from ArtCenter seven years ago, shes been working at the forefront of social change. Shes ...
Kicking againstthe digital takeover: Noah Minuskin's hand-drawnJohn Wick poster When Los Angeles-based artist and Illustration alumnus Noah Minuskin (BFA 15) isn't busy inking scenes of spiritual agony on his clients' limbs or torsos, the internationally recognized artist lends his considerable tal...
Craig Attebery is a native southern Californian. He Graduated from ArtCenter in 1980, receiving a BFA with Honors. He then completed his MFA studies at Otis/Parsons Art Institute in 1984. Craig is the author of The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing: From One- to Six-Point. He has worked as a fre...
Program:ArtCenter at Night Right across the Arroyo, were making plans for a real close encounter, says Dave Doody, whose Art Center At Night seminar, Basics of Interplanetary Flight, is currently recruiting participants for a class thats literally out of this world. My team has been piloting the gan...
Climbing The Ladder: Meet Catalyst CCO Josh Wright AC: What inspired you to co-found Catalyst? Josh Wright (BS Product Design 03) Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Catalyst: The seed was planted when I was at ArtCenter. The College trains you to think about design, not just from the aesthetic ...
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...
A Fine Art Fairytale: Meet Artist, Costume Designer John Coulter ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? John Coulter (BFA 93 Illustration) Disney fine artist costume designer: Im costuming a Phantom of the Opera musical to be performed in Italy this summer. And at the same time, Im always w...
Certain cancers may disproportionately impact the LGBTQIA+ community, including those associated with HPV (human papillomavirus). The Research Center for Health Equity at Cedars-Sinai (RCHE) challenged ArtCenter students to develop messaging to help eradicate HPV and HPV-related cancers for the next...
Merle Mullin Philanthropist and Director, Mullin Automotive Museum Merle Mullin enjoys showing, driving and racing Vintage cars along with her husband Peter. She is a co-founder/co-organizer of a biennial vintage car rally for women only. Its All About the Girls! is an exciting, much publicized ev...
The Reel Thing: Meet Film Producer Maja Zimmermann ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Maja Zimmermann (BA 99 Film) film producer: For the past four and a half years, Ive been working on Killing Jesus. It recently premiered at the Toronto film festival and now were traveling the world wit...
Storyboard: Marina Chang Orrin Shively Marriage of East Meets West in California Orrin Shively: I grew up in Europe and Marina grew up in Asia. Our union truly was the East meeting the West out in California. Marina Chang: Before I ended up at ArtCenter, I was at UCLA for four years, where I maj...
A good story well told: Faculty, former astronaut to receive honorary doctorate If Dos Equis were truly interested in casting a real-life individual as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for its popular advertising campaign, they'd be hard-pressed to find anybody more qualifiedon this planet (...
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...
NOT THE WHOLE STORY: ALUMNA MARIA RENDÓN AVOIDS THE LITERAL TO CREATE NEW REALITIES “I make paintings insinuating animal and human forms that appear and disappear in the landscape,” says Illustration alumna and former faculty Maria Rendón (BFA 92), whose paintings explore ...
Introducing Night Loo, a portable, personal urinal for refugee women and girls Over 2.6 million refugees live in refugee camps that often lack adequate access to basic amenities such as food, water, and first aid. Women and girls living in refugee camps face another problem – the threat of se...
Embedded Interactions is a four-week intensive studio, where students design and build prototypes that utilize a mix of working systems, wizard-of-ozing, and video simulations.