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/Painter and mixed media artist Delbar Shahbaz embraces vibrant colors in symphonic palettes as an emblem of freedom and a gesture of courage—like nature emerging from a winter of revolution into a spring of power and liberty.

Fine Art faculty Delbar Shahbaz featured in Meet an Artist Monday

/colorful Illustration by Anil Rinat

Advertising alum Mike Cessario's brand Liquid Death included in world's most innovative companies of 2023

/Estella Tse sits with plants in a garden nursery.

Illustration alum and creative director Estella Tse is creating connection-worthy stories with VR/AR

/Helene Rother, General Motors

Transportation alum Michelle Christensen ranked in top 20 female designers who changed automotive industry

/Installation view of Anthony Lee Pittman: Sons Like Me (photo Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)

Anthony Lee Pittman, founder of Compton Art & History Museum, was inspired by visiting ArtCenter growing up

/ artists Frank Ingerson (1879–1968) and George Dennison (1873–1966) are two of the most fascinating and admirable people you may have never heard of—until now.

New book documents the life of artists Frank Ingerson and George Dennison in the early 1900s, which influenced the founding of ArtCenter

/Laura Cooper is perhaps best known for her handmade ceramics, but her elemental ethos expands beyond her work in clay into a sculptural idiom pairing it with stone, branches, roots, flowers, stainless steel, silk, textiles, water, paper, glue, and collected spider webs.

Fine Art chair Laura Cooper featured in Meet an Artist Monday

/D’Wayne Edwards is the founder of Pensole Lewis College, the first academy in the U.S. dedicated to footwear design, and the first historically Black college in the country focused on design.

Honorary degree awardee D'Wayne Edwards is paving the way for Black designers

/Robbie Nock at Creative Tech Week

Associate VP of Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice Robbie Nock on future of autonomous vehicles

/Thinking of getting your bachelor’s degree in art? Before you choose your school, learn about the best art colleges by graduate earnings.

ArtCenter ranked #1 for Best Undergraduate Art Schools by Salary Potential

/Darin Johnstone Architects (DJA) responsible for building the Mullin Transportation Design Center, among many other building projects on campus.

Los Angeles Business Journal

Darin Johnstone Architects (DJA) responsible for building many of ArtCenter's buildings

/Victor Estrada erupted onto the art world landscape with his confounding work in the 1992 Los Angeles MOCA exhibition, “Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s,” along with other luminaries such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Megan Williams and Mike Kelley.

Artillery Magazine

Alum Victor Estrada exhibition "Purple Mexican" was reviewed

/Celebrating the histories and cultures of Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, ArtCenter College of Design’s Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) has produced an exemplary introduction to the rarely examined heritage of Hispanic women of typography.

HMCT book Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografia interviewed

/ The Ukrainian Museum is pleased to present the first large-scale exhibition of work by artist Yelena Yemchuk, and the debut of a haunting new short film shot in the Carpathian Mountains of her native Ukraine.

Photo Alum Yelena Yemchuk is showing work in The Ukrainian Museum

/Ed Loh and Jonny Lieberman talk design and more with design legend and present Meyers Manx CEO Freeman Thomas, one of their most fascinating guests to date.

Transportation Design alum Freeman Thomas interviewed by Ed Loh and Jonny Lieberman