Jennifer is a Los Angeles native of Polish-American heritage and an ArtCenter Graphic Design graduate. Her sensibility and aesthetics have been influenced through lifelong travel, her unique cultural perspective, and from a family deeply immersed in the fields of art and design. At VANS, she oversee...
Hi, I'm Liz! I graduated summer of 2022 with a BS in Interaction Design and a double minor in Research and Design Matters. I currently work at an Agency as a Jr UX Designer and Researcher as my day job in sunny South Pasadena.
Bora is an award-winning design leader focused on building socially responsible brands and user-centric service products with 10+ years of design experience. One of her passions is to help achieve social equity and shared well-being through design-driven processes. This exploration led her to reach...
Andrew Park is a figurative-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Illustration, in the Design Track from ArtCenter College of Design in 2018. Park has been teaching several classes such as figure drawing, head painting, and costume drawing. Also, Park is a painting ...
Professor Shrirang Jambhekar is a highly skilled user experience design practitioner and innovator with a passion for creating great user experiences. Jambhekar's UX, service and product design work spans mobile, automotive, home, financial and enterprise spaces. Jambhekar also has experience in ent...
Juan Garrido is an Illustrator and Background painter based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Art Center in 2010 and has been working in TV Animation ever since. He is currently background supervisor on the Mickey Shorts Series at Disney Television Animation. With ten years experience in the industr...
A born and bred Angeleno, Doris draws inspiration from the diversity that the city offers. A self-proclaimed perfectionist with a keen eye and attention to detail, she thrives on all the creative and technical challenges involved in seeing a project through from beginning to end. After graduating fr...
Gary Goldsmith is the former chair of the undergraduate Advertising Department at ArtCenter and co-founder of Underhead, a network of global talent in every discipline, including advertising, digital and social media, package design and film. With over three decades of experience as a top creative ...
Born in Los Angeles, Richard Mahon studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was an award winning Illustrator from 1977 until 1998 before transitioning to Visual Effects for film and TV. He has worked on approximately 85 movies and TV shows as an Art Director, Matte Painti...
Matt is a contemporary artist, cartoonist, and teacher whose ongoing graphic narrative Dark Pants follows a mysterious pair of pants through Los Angeles as they impact the lives of whomever wears them. MacFarland has also compiled his 15+ years of teaching experience into a self-published comic, The...
Richard Pearce is a director and cinematographer whose credits include "Country" for which Jessica Lange received an Academy Award nomination; "No Mercy" starring Richard Gere and Kim Bassinger; "The Long Walk Home" starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek; "Leap of Faith" with Steve Martin, Debora...
Eric Ryan has been Head of Illustration, an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist with over 21 years experience in the film, television and video game industry. He attended the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, and subsequently made a career change in 2...
Andrew Kutchera's design experience ranges from identity and typography to print publications, user experience, and visual strategy. Kutchera previously served as senior lecturer of design at University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design, where he had been a faculty member for n...
A native of Southern California, Howard Heard graduated from UCLA with a BA in Motion Pictures / TV Production and has been a film editor for more than thirty years, working on forty-five features, including Risky Business and My Favorite Year, more than fifty hours of prime time episodic television...
Amy Reid Hirst is an artist and designer living and working in San Francisco. Originally from London, Reid Hirst holds a BA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work covers a wide range of mediums includi...
Bonnie holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an MA + MFA in Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University. She has taught multiple subjects through art at inner-city schools for over ten years in Downtown Los Angeles. Motivated by her students to learn, Bonnie went back to school to earn...
Jay Torres is a freelance multimedia illustrator and artist working in Los Angeles. His work has earned several awards and national recognition from 3x3 magazine, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators (LA & NY), and Creative Quarterly. In 2022, Jay received Best in Show and was included in ...
Mark Hannah is an award-winning cross disciplinary artist and designer in the areas of transportation, furniture, consumer goods, entertainment and education. Hannah graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 1998 with a BS in Transporation Design. In 2021, he recieved his MFA in Fine Art from Ar...
Joshue is a visual artist and designer of Salvadorian descent, born and raised in South East Los Angeles. He earned a BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from ArtCenter College of Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Otis College of Art and Design. As an HMCT staff member, he w...
I've ammased over 20 years of music production experience including working with Grammy award winners both on tour and behind the scenes working on music video production. My job for the past 18 years has been with AVID Technology where I currently manage the multimedia department. My responsibiliti...
Drawing from multiple problem-solving disciplines, Wendee Lee emphasizes student growth in all areas of their lives. After working as a rocket engineer in aerospace, Lee shifted her focus to study, then teach, Product Design at ArtCenter. Over time, she incorporated holistic student learning and dev...
When John Chambers is asked, "What do you do for living?" his quick answer is "I teach technology to artists." When eyebrows go up and more details are needed, Chambers will begin explaining his early days of teaching Apple Computer's McPaint, McWrite and McDraw (1984). Chambers developed the origin...
Rita Blaik is a multidisciplinary scientist and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her life's goal is to find new and innovative ways of communicating science to people through interactive discussions, art and other media. Her research specialization is in nanotechnology and biotechnology for ...
Errol Gerson has been teaching Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Business Management at Art Center for the past 45 years. In that time he has taught over 6100 students and has personally mentored well over 3000 students. Gerson received a BS in Accounting from USC in 1970, and after receiving his MBA...
Tony DeRosa began his career as an animator in 1981. Mr. DeRosa completed his animation education at the world-renowned California Institute of the Arts and was immediately hired by Disney Studios to train under legendary animator Eric Larson. After assisting on numerous projects he completed his f...