Fine Art alum Green Yoon’s digital and physical sculptures form a creative pathway Fine Art alum Green Yoon’s sprawling physical sculptures—created mainly out of bamboo skewers and tree branches—and his futuristic digital sculptures form a creative pathway imbued with myster...
Building a more inclusive house: ArtCenter series explores design futures beyond the Bauhaus Founded as an art school in 1919, Germany’s Bauhaus—meaning “house of construction” or “building house”—is often characterized as emphasizing minimalism, sleek line...
Designing for Green Justice: Centering Indigenous Land Access, Stewardship, White Sage Campaign In this Designmatters studio, students have the opportunity to connect with this land and its First Peoples, the Tongva community. Together, we work with Indigenous land rights advocates and Tr...
A Visual Conversation: Meet Art Director Samantha Kallis ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Samantha Kallis (BA Illustration 10) Art Director of Development at Disney Television Animation: I cant give specifics, but broadly I work on Disney projects before they go into production. My job...
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?
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.
Tommy Honton is a Los Angeles-based designer who creates immersive experiences blending storytelling, game mechanics, and innovation across escape rooms, theme parks, theater, museums, and video games. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Honton graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double ma...
This foundational course is part of ArtCenters newly launched Game Design Track, a specialization allowing students to learn skills vital to launching a career inthe rapidly growing video game industry. Students will learn to analyze and appreciate gamesas they would a piece of literature or art. Fr...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 14: Jackie Amezquita on Crossing Borders and Making Change We are trying something new: We have decided to add an episode every year to the Change Lab podcast that will feature one of our graduating students. Its a way for our listeners to learn, directly, about some of t...
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...
Pieces of Resistance: Meet Artist Ellen November ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Ellen November (BFA 73 Illustration) fiber artist, curator of the upcoming exhibition Mapping Out: Im doing work around Gun Sense using an aerial view of Virginia City Municipal Center overlaid with a gu...
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...
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...
Storyboard: Betsy Everitt Glimpsing Through the Keyhole As a child, I was constantly making things. I loved to sew, cook and draw. Growing up, creation was a constant presence in our house. My dad was a designer who attended ArtCenter back when it was still located on 3rd Street. He was one of th...
Storyboard: Celeste Guarneri Sicilian Sensibility: Back-of-the-House at ArtCenter When I was a kid, my mom and dad owned and operated an Italian seafood restaurant. My old man was the head chef, and my mom was the head waitress and bookkeeper. In other words, I was a restaurant kid. My dad emigra...
Katie Sprague Finding true north Throughout the course of my life, Ive found myself continually returning to one simple question: Why have I devoted my life to this crazy thing called Brand Strategy? Why did I decide to go back for a second round of college in my 30s? Why, indeed. Even as a k...
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...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 1 / Product Design Alumna Katie Dill 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...
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...
Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Active Pursuit of Empathy Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of...
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...
The Joy Of Sets: Meet Film Alum Zak Marx ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Zak Marx (BFA 16 Film), Director: Im currently wrapping a commercial campaign I directed for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Working for a month in the Caribbean is something I strongly recommend. AC: How do you defin...
Illustration student Emilia Cruz pours herself into her paintings and her art on Netflix’s Gentefied In Illustration student Emilia Cruz’s oil painting Am I Too Dark?, a young girl sits on her bed. In one hand, she holds her long black hair, staring down at it. In the other hand, she g...