Category Archives: Events

Big Picture Lecture Series: Sonali Kolhatkar

Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Sonali Kolhatkar.

Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a daily drive-time program on KPFK 90.7 FM, and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She is coauthor of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Sonali Kolhatkar
Monday, March 15, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium

3×3*: Starting and Running a Graphic Design Business

Each term, Art Center’s Graphic Design Department brings together three LA-based design professionals to discuss a particular topic. This term’s panel will be alum designers Yolanda Santosa (FerroConcrete), Chris Dooley (National Television) and Tatiana Redin Wyden (Creable).

Find out their thoughts on running a design business, maintain a personal-work life balance, and what they look for when hiring designers at this free public event.

3×3*: Starting and Running a Graphic Design Business
Wednesday, March 10, 7:30-9 pm
LA Times Media Center, Hillside Campus

Big Picture Lecture Series: Jenny Price

Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Jenny Price.

Price is a writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger and research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, Price has written for GOOD, Sunset, Audubon, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

Big Picture Lecture Series:
Jenny Price
Monday, March 8, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium

DreamWorlds Opens Tonight

Don’t miss tonight’s opening of DreamWorlds in the Williamson Gallery. The exhibit, a behind-the-scenes look at the artistry and imagination of animated filmmaking at DreamWorks Animation, opens tonight with a multimedia presentation, panel discussion and reception. The presentation and panel will be held at Ahmanson Auditorium at 7 pm, followed by a reception in the Williamson Gallery at 8 pm.

Drawing from popular DreamWorks Animation films such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens, Bee Movie, Prince of Egypt and the soon-to-be-released How To Train Your Dragon (scheduled for theatrical release March 26), the more than 300 objects in the exhibition include original and digital designs and paintings, movie posters, character maquettes, miniature sets, an artist’s workstation re-creation and other creative stages of the complex filmmaking process.

Film Department Chair Ross LaManna will moderate tonight’s panel discussion, which will revolve around the connection between art, illustration, story and animation. Panelists include:

  • Gail Currey: PDI/DreamWorks Animation Studio Head
  • Kathy Altieri: Art Center Illustration alumna; DreamWorks Animation production designer for How to Train Your Dragon; first artist hired by DreamWorks
  • Kendal Cronkhite: Art Center Illustration alumna; DreamWorks Animation production designer whose credits include the Madagascar films
  • Sam Michlap: Former guest instructor at Art Center; DreamWorks Animation production designer and visual development artist; co-curator of DreamWorlds

DreamWorlds runs through May 9. The Williamson Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Friday evenings to 9 p.m.

(Image is from the Williamson Gallery’s Facebook page)

South Campus Gallery Salon Saturday

Need some new art? Looking for something fun to do Saturday night? You’re in luck. Saturday night is the South Campus Gallery Salon, featuring the work of photography alum Orly Olivier. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Art Center student scholarship fund. The salon will be hosted by Archetype Press and Art Center professors Leah Toby Hoffmitz and Gloria Kondrup. Don’t miss it!

South Campus Gallery Salon: “Please Don’t Feed the Models”
Saturday, March 6, 6-9 pm
South Campus Gallery

Citroëns Invade Hillside Campus

Did you happen to notice a caravan of Citroëns making their way through Pasadena to Hillside Campus last Saturday? It was the SoCal Citroën Club, who enjoyed a campus tour led by Transportation Design Chair Stewart Reed.

From Clunkbucket: “There were more Citroëns than drivers on a Saturday morning. The task at hand was a good one. Settle into the plush appointments behind the steering wheel of a 1969 and-one-half Citroën iD21F Safari Wagon and drive.”

Read more about the outing and see great photos of the event at Clunkbucket.

Images for Human Rights: Student Voices Panel and Reception

Images for Human Rights: Student Voices, a provocative exhibition exploring perspectives of Art Center students on the issues of freedom and human rights, is on display at the Skirball Cultural Center through Sunday. The exhibition features more than a dozen large-scale, illustrated posters created by Art Center students as part of a Designmatters project. A panel discussion featuring students, curators and special guests will be held tomorrow, March 3, from 3 to 8 pm at the Skirball. For more information, call 626.396.2310.

Read our previous post about the project here.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Steve Quartz

Don’t miss today’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Steve Quartz.

Quartz is an associate professor of humanities and social sciences at Caltech and directs the Brain, Mind and Society PhD program. His research centers on how new methods in brain science can be integrated into the humanities and social sciences.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Steve Quartz
Monday, March 1, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium

Visual Acoustics Screening Sunday

Grassroots think tank One Community, in association with the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University, will present a screening of the film Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman at Hillside Campus Sunday. The documentary will be followed by a moderated discussion—Does Architecture Create Great Communities or Do Communities Create Great Architecture?—featuring architectural historian Barbara Lamprecht and artist Michael Stern.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, the film explores the monumental career of architectural photographer Shulman, who died last year at the age of 99. Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, capturing the essence of urban design and nature in his photographs.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at onecommunitythinktank.com or onecommunitythinktank@gmail.com.

Screening: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Sunday February 28, 4 pm
Hillside Campus
Ahmanson Auditorium

(Pictured: Case Study House No. 22, Julius Shulman)