Meet Dr. Penny Florence, New Chair of HDS
Next month, Art Center will welcome Dr. Penny Florence to her new post as Chair of the Humanities and Design Sciences Department. Florence comes to Art Center from The Slade School of Fine Art,...
View ArticleBig Picture Lecture Series: Penny Florence
Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Penny Florence, who will present the lecture, “Art is Intensely Political: Why You Should Be Interested in Digital Poetry and the Sexed...
View ArticleThe Zen Master’s Search for the Wild West
On Monday, Occidental College professor Dale Wright was on campus as part of the Big Picture lecture series to talk about Buddhism, Buddhist wisdom and creativity. The most entertaining part of the...
View ArticleGreat Teacher Award Recipients Announced
Earlier this year, the Art Center Student Government, together with Student Affairs and the Provost’s Office, together reinstated an annual Great Teacher Award. The relaunched and revised awards will...
View ArticleCollege Art Association Names Jacki Apple Distinguished Teacher of the Year
Jacki Apple, an Art Center College of Design faculty member of over 28 years, as well as a practicing visual, performance and media artist, critic and writer since the early 70s, has been awarded the...
View ArticleSummer 2012 Graduation Events
The creative energy around campus is kicking into high gear as the College prepares for its series of Summer graduation events. Thursday, August 16 If you’re lucky enough to be on the invite list for...
View ArticleForm follows fungus at the Williamson Gallery’s Intimate Science exhibit
Philip Ross’s “Mycotecture” series, part of the Williamson Gallery’s “Intimate Science” exhibition. Bricks. You know, those hard rectangular cubes made of heavy solid stuff like cement, stone,...
View ArticleAugust 2014 Alumni Notes
Jennifer Steinkamp’s Murmuration Summer 2014 has yielded a bounty of freshly produced works, events and ideas by Art Center alumni. And look for future editions of this dispatch to be equally flush,...
View ArticleCritical Faculties: Meet Art Center’s 2014 Faculty Enrichment Grant recipients
“January, Julia F. Parker, Yosemite Visitors Center”Photo by Jonas Kulikauskas. Providing a top notch education in art and design requires an intricate ecosystem comprised of state of the art...
View ArticleScience and Art collide in the REALSPACE exhibition at Art Center’s...
Dan Goods and David Delgado; Refraction, 2014; Theater light, water, custom electronics; Courtesy of the artists. The painter Willem de Kooning once said that the idea of space “is given to the artist...
View ArticleThe Toyota Lecture Series presents Anne Elizabeth Moore on labor, gender and...
Anne Elizabeth Moore Art Center’s 2014 Toyota Lecture Series kicks off on Tuesday, September 30, with a talk by Anne Elizabeth Moore entitled: Our Fashion Year: Labor, Gender and culture with The...
View ArticleUses of mapping (and failure) in design: The Toyota Lecture Series hosts...
Peter Hall The second installment of Art Center’s Toyota Lecture Series delivers a distinctly a wide-angle perspective on the present and future state of design, tracking its evolving and expanding...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Art Center alumni notes
Spike TV’s Framework, a furniture design reality show, features Product Design alum, Nolan Niu as a judge From Oxygen’s Street Art Throwdown to Spike TV’s Framework to the 2015 Academy Awards to...
View ArticleHarriet Rubin on speaking beauty to power and rebranding the meaning of...
Princessa: Machiavelli for Women by Harriet Rubin Last week, the Humanities and Sciences department played host to Harriet Rubin, Art Center’s first Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. Rubin founded...
View ArticleLeap Before You Look: Inside the revealing new exhibition on Black Mountain...
Photo: Hazel Larsen Archer, Merce Cunningham Dancing, c. 1952-53, gelatin silver print, 8 ¾ x 5 7/8 inches. Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center. “Most...
View ArticleA Holiday haul of ArtCenter alumni notes delivered to your digital doorstep
Frances Stark, Portrait of the Artist as a Full-on Bird, 2004, Collage on casein on canvas board. 20×24 in. RSC Contemporary, London. Photo by Marcus Leith. With the arrival of the holiday season comes...
View ArticleArtCenter Alumni Notes: November 2015 through January 2016
Diana Thater, A Cast of Falcons, 2008. Four video projectors, display computer, and two spotlights. Installation Photograph, Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
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