Advertising student Andrew Kapamajian says that the incredible creativity of his classmates was one of the most surprising things about coming to Art Center.
“You come to Art Center thinking you have the most unique ideas, then you go to class and find at least three or four others there with the same idea,” he says. “It’s frustrating, but it pushes you to think harder.”
Read more about Andrew and his Art Center experience at in this great interview.
Next week Art Center students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends will come together for Art Center Takes Action: A Day of Service in Pasadena, a volunteer initiative launched in celebration of Art Center’s 80th anniversary. The event will be held Saturday, June 12.
Among the local organizations that Art Center volunteers will assist include AIDS Service Center, Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena, Pasadena Senior Center, Rose Bowl Stadium and Villa-Parke Community Center.
The day of service will kick off at 8 am on Saturday, June 12. Participants will begin the day at Pasadena’s Memorial Park for breakfast with College President Buchman, representatives from participating organizations and patrons of the Pasadena Senior Center. From there, teams of Art Center volunteers will be dispatched to locations around the city to take on such tasks as picking up garbage, serving food and moving boxes.
We’ll bring you more information on the event and the participating organizations next week.
It’s not too late to join us. To sign up or for more information, contact Betsy Edmunds in the Center for the Student Experience at cse@artcenter.edu or stop by the CSE.
Art Center’s Williamson Gallery is continuing its series of explorations into the intersecting domains of art, science, technology and design with side-by-side exhibitions exploring the interplay between the technologies used to fabricate objects and the thought-processes used to conceive them. The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects open Thursday, June 3, will be on display through August 15.
The relationship between technology and its influence over the process of conceptualizing objects, inventions and innovations is referenced overtly in The Curious World of Patent Models, an exhibit of more than 50 scale models representing ideas submitted for United States Patent protection between 1800 and 1880. A concurrent exhibit, The Future of Objects, displays new digital-age fabrication and prototyping techniques in which complex forms are created by 3D printers. As the exhibit reveals, technologies related to those used daily in households and offices to print 2D information on flat pieces of paper are now being used to create freestanding 3D objects using a variety of solid materials.
“As we celebrate Art Center’s 80th anniversary, it’s fitting to showcase advanced computer modeling and 3D printing techniques that will very soon become such a big part of the planet’s visual culture,” says Gallery Director Stephen Nowlin. “Exhibiting 19th-century fabrication alongside 21st-century technology opens an entirely new conversation about what is coming in the future, and where it came from.”
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects On Exhibit
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery
Hillside Campus
June 4—August 15
Opening Reception: June 3, 7- 9 pm