The alum, recipient of ArtCenter’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award, was in conversation on campus, timed to an ArtCenter micro-exhibition of his legendary work “It’s preexisting—the beauty.

ArtCenter College of Design presents the work of graduating undergraduate and graduate students at its Spring 2026 Grad Show. Highly anticipated and recognized as one of the West Coast’s largest art ...

Every technology interaction you experience in a day—from using mobile apps to playing games to wearing smart accessories to engaging with other digital environments—has been designed to maximize user ...

At ArtCenter, we’re not anticipating the future. We’re creating it. ArtCenter students go beyond aesthetics and technical expertise to think critically, intelligently and humanely about their practice ...

Celebrate the creative achievements of our graduating film students at the Grad Show Film Showcase. This screening features a diverse lineup of short films that span genres and styles, offering a ...

Make a gift today to support ArtCenter’s students and future. For nearly a century, ArtCenter has prepared creative thinkers, makers and innovators to shape culture and transform industries, made ...

A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. That, according to Dictionary.com, is the definition of an entrepreneur. As ...

Lynn Aldrich (MFA 86 Art) doesn’t seem to be able to make up her mind. She wants objects—hard, cheap, common objects—and ideas as well. And the ideas can get big—philosophical, celestial, even: She ...

The annual gathering on teaching and learning in art and design included inspiring sessions by ArtCenter faculty, staff, students and alumni, and keynote speaker Safiya Noble How can educators prepare ...

It was February 2021, and alumnus Jonathan D. Chang (BFA 08 Illustration) felt frustrated that the recent death of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai grandfather who had been shoved to the ground ...

You can’t see it; you can’t smell it. It doesn't weigh an ounce. Music is just a sound wave, an arrangement of vibrations that merely, invisibly, shakes the air. So why then, when we think of music, ...

Illustration Department Associate Chair Aaron Smith (BFA 88) has long been transfixed by the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and by the bearded men—stoically posed and meticulously attired—in vintage ...