Envisioning the Next 80 Years

The Pasadena Star-News ran a nice piece on Art Center and our upcoming 80th anniversary over the weekend. Art Center President Lorne Buchman and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Bob Davidson discussed their vision and plans for Art Center’s future in the article, which ran Saturday.

Janette Williams writes: “President Lorne M. Buchman, who will be inaugurated April 22, and Robert C. Davidson Jr., the first African-American chairman of the college’s board of trustees, agree: There will be a renewed focus on students, faculty, curriculum and scholarships, and on building diversity at every level as the college looks toward the next 80 years.”

Read more: Everything old new again as Art Center College marks its 80th anniversary

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Open Market Sunday

Don’t miss Sunday’s Pasadena Art & Design Open Market at One Colorado. This bi-annual outdoor art market is devoted to selling work by emerging and established artists from Art Center and Pasadena City College. This great event features work by Art Center students, faculty and staff, and is sponsored by Center for the Student Experience, One Colorado and Pasadena City College. Don’t miss it!

Open Market
Sunday, April 11, 10 am-5 pm
One Colorado, Old Town Pasadena

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Cinematographer John Toll on Campus Today

Film Department instructor Allen Daviau will host a screening of The Thin Red Line, followed by a Q&A with cinematographer John Toll. Toll’s credits include Almost Famous, Gone Baby Gone, The Last Samurai, Tropic Thunder, It’s Complicated and many others. Toll one of just three cinematographers to win consecutive Oscars for Best Cinematography, for Legends of the Fall (1994) and Braveheart (1995).

The event starts promptly at 1 pm and is open to all Art Center students, faculty, alumni and staff.

John Toll
Thursday, April 8, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium

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Jeunes Talents 2010 Opens in WeHo

A group show featuring photographs of contemporary French life by American art school students premieres at Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood this week before moving to galleries in New Orleans and New York.

Jeunes Talents 2010, French Impressions: New Photographic Perspectives was conceived in the spirit of photographer Robert Frank. Eight American art students, including Art Center Photography and Imaging student David Holden Smith, were sent to France to capture the essence of French life and culture with fresh sensibilities, unsullied eyes and new perspectives. The cities of Aix-en-Provence, Arles (where Smith stayed), Marseille and Toulon were among the cities hosting photographers for 10 days.

Art Center is proud to have participated in the exchange program since its inception. To view the results of previous editions of Jeunes Talents visit franceguide.com/jeunestalents or the Jeunes Talents page on Facebook.

Jeunes Talents 2010, French Impressions: New Photographic Perspectives
April 7-21
Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood

(Featured image by David Holden Smith)

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Hooligans Have Designs On Winning World Cup

As part of the Center for the Student Experience’s Celebration of Cultures this week, Art Center’s Hooligans Soccer Club will host its annual World Cup Soccer tournament this afternoon—are you in? All Art Center students, faculty and staff are welcome to play. Not a soccer player? Supporters are welcome to cheer on friends and colleagues. Join us in the Sculpture Garden at Hillside Campus at 3 pm!

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Meet Kayla Varley

We met Photography and Imaging student Kayla Varley through Facebook—she was our 500th fan! Kayla is finishing up her first term at the College.

“I felt a special energy here from the minute I stepped on campus,” says Kayla. “I knew that I would be able succeed here.”

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

And if you haven’t already, be sure to check us out on Facebook.

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Collegiate Field Tournament: Will the Creatives Win?

Who said creatives can’t be athletes, too?

The Rose Bowl will be a colorful and competitive place on Saturday as teams from area colleges compete for the first Pasadena Collegiate Field Tournament Cup. Art Center, CalTech, Pasadena City College (PCC), Fuller Seminary, Le Cordon Bleu and Pacific Oaks College will battle it out for the coveted title. You certainly will want to be there to witness Art Center crush the competition!

Everyone is invited for a day of fun, games and collegiality. Creative challenges such as monster croquet (think giant croquet balls and balloon arches), Frisbee toss, blindfolded flag race and cheeseburger challenge will round out a day that will be as much about bonding among Pasadena’s world-renowned schools as it is about competition.

Festivities will last from 11 am to 2 pm, and are free and open to everyone. Go Orange Dots!

Pasadena Collegiate Field Tournament Cup
Saturday, April 3, 11 am–2 pm
Rose Bowl

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Making the Bus Sexy

The words “bus” and “sexy” are rarely used together, but according to Art Center’s Director of Advanced Mobility Research Geoff Wardle, the bus actually can be … well, sexy.

People need to feel “that they have the same level of control over their journey by using the bus as they would if they … took their car right to the outside of their workplace,” says Wardle. “That is where designers need to focus their attention … (They should) consider the whole experience, not just the bus.”

Wardle was recently interviewed as part of Big Think, a global forum connecting people and ideas. Check out his thoughts on the bus and other transportation and sustainability issues  here.

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