Author Archives: Jered Gold

Southern California Portfolio Day a Great Success

National Portfolio Day is an event that gives aspiring art and design students the opportunity to meet with representatives from colleges accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Representatives review portfolios, discuss their school’s programs and answer questions about careers in art.

Southern California Portfolio Day was held Sunday at Art Center’s Hillside Campus. Southwestern Academy students were in attendance, and made a great video documenting the day—check it out! The day was a great success—thanks to all who participated. Check out the video after the jump.

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Site-Specific Installation by Grad Art Faculty Member Opens in Westwood

Later Layer, a site-specific installation designed by artist and Graduate Fine Art associate professor Walead Beshty and architects Johnston Marklee, opens today at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles. The installation features Beshty’s photograms in the Depart Foundation collection and architectural models of Johnston Marklee’s work in Italy. Presented as two connected projects, the models and photograms are displayed in a field of modular nesting boxes designed collaboratively by the artist and the architects.

The IIC is located at 1023 Hilgard Avenue in Westwood. The exhibit runs through Feb. 28.

Meet Mitos Corpus

After noticing a lack of interaction between different term students in her department, advertising major Mitos Corpus got to work helping organize a brainstorming and homework session for advertising students.

“What began as a place to do homework has become a place where advertising students can work together and critique each other’s work,” Mitos says.

Read more about Mitos and her experiences studying at Art Center in this great interview.

Visioning Process Webcast Tonight

Tonight we are kicking off Art Center’s visioning process spearheaded by President Lorne Buchman. We encourage all members of the Art Center community to join the dialogue.

The discussion begins tonight, Jan. 13, in the Ahmanson Auditorium from 7:30 to 9:30 pm (PST). We have invited a panel of distinguished guests to help us gain a new perspective on art and design education:

  • Andrew Blauvelt – Design director and curator, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
  • Katherine Hayles – Director of graduate studies in literature at Duke University
  • Steven Oliver – Member of the board of directors for United States Artists and former chairman of the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • David Rice – President of DesignCom, Inc. and chairman and founder of The Organization of Black Designers

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A Liberal Arts Approach to B-School

Business schools are finally realizing that the development of students’ critical and creative thinking skills is just as important as learning about finance. In the past decade, business executives have realized the value of managers who can think more nimbly across multiple frameworks, cultures and disciplines in a fast-changing, global market.

A very interesting article in the New York Times examines this idea as well as the prominent business schools who have re-evaluated and, in some cases, redesigned their M.B.A. programs around this notion.

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Teen Designers Showcase Their Designs

Art Center’s Saturday High fashion design class was recently featured in two local newspapers.

Pasadena Weekly writes: “Deep in the belly of the Art Center College of Design’s South Campus Building in downtown Pasadena, flashbulbs popped, lights blazed and music thumped. There was even a deejay, complete with fashionably aloof demeanor and single-ear headphones. Models worked their way down the walkway, stomping in insanely high heels and yards of glittering fabric, pausing at the end of the ramp to vamp and peer out fiercely from under large tousled hairdos.

It was hip, it was professional, it was a showcase for … high school kids?”

Read more about this innovative and fun Saturday High class:

High-fashion high school

Teen’s designs showcased

For more information on the Art Center’s Saturday High Program, visit artcenter.edu/sat.

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Clean Water

Fast Company has a great article about the Safe Agua Chile project, a collaboration between Designmatters and NGO Un Techo Para Mi Pais. The project, which we’ve highlighted in this blog, challenged 12 Art Center students and three faculty members to work directly with impoverished communities in Santiago, Chile, developing new tools and methods of storing, utilizing, transporting and conserving water.

Check out the great article at Fast Company, as well as the project’s official blog. Desigmnatters Director Mariana Amatullo also writes about the project in the latest post on the Designmatters blog. Great and inspiring work, everyone!