Student Gallery
An exhibition curated by Kim Abeles featuring installation, ceramics, glass, video, photography, sound, and painting:
Featuring works by Ken Marchionno, Khoder Cherri and other Art Center faculty.
Seeing Through Style: The Past, Present and Future of Fashion Imagery. A Conversation with Photographer Matthew Rolston
The talk is not about photography per se, but about imagery of all kinds relating to style; from Winged Victory to AI.
Thursday, October 19, from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
Santa Monica College, Room HSS 165, Main Campus
Join us our next artist lecture with Director and Photographer Bethany Vargas
In-person at the Ahmanson Auditorium (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom
Thursday, July 13th, 2023 | 7PM PT/10PM ET
Bethany Vargas is a photographer + director based in Los Angeles. Her creative journey reflects a place where fashion and fiction meet, paying special attention to materials, light, and texture. Being able to effectively navigate both film and stills, Bethany creates thoughtful and dynamic content in a multitude of mediums.
Greg Hoffman, founder of the brand advisory group Modern Arena and former Chief Marketing Officer of Nike, details the importance of creativity in a consumer driven world. This lecture and presentation provides a behind-the-scenes look at brand innovation, “because the world never stops turning and the consumer’s expectations never stop expanding.”
Netflix original documentary screening of "IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?" followed by Q + A with the Cinematographer Justin Ervin.
Join us for our next guest lecture, [Zoned in and Out of Focus: Fashion Photography with Mark de Paola]
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 | 7PM PT/10PM ET
Mark de Paola is a New York City-based fine art and fashion photographer with over 30 years of experience shooting campaign and fine art commissions for the likes of Vogue Spain, Vogue Mexico, Gucci, Oscar de la Renta, Prabal Gurung, David Koma, Roksanda, and Saint Laurent.
De Paola has directed several hundred television spots in the fashion/beauty sector including those for Giorgio RED Perfume (Bergdorf Goodman windows and MoMA NY), Ducati, Leica Camera, Sony, Neutrogena, and Ford Motorsports.
De Paola's fine art work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Getty in Los Angeles, the San Diego Center of Photographic Arts, and the TOP Museum in Tokyo. His photography monographs Recent Work I (2018), Recent Work II (2019), and Five Years and Sixty Seconds (2020) can be found with Leica Camera retailers in major cities worldwide. De Paola's solo exhibitions have traveled around the world including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dali (China), Tokyo, Milan (Triennale Museum), and at home in New York City.
De Paola's pictorialist work as a still and motion artist has been driven by his studies of the neurobiology and cognitive psychology of human vision.
Join us for an community celebration with Student Gallery commemoration, Faculty recognition, Chair welcome, refreshments and more!
This event is in person and open to Faculty, Alumni, Students, Staff and guests.
ArtCenter 1700 Lida Street (Hillside Campus Room 164)
Thursday September 29, 2022 | 7PM
Immediately following ArtCenter Graduation we invite family and friends to view our graduate work at the Grad Show Celebration. This event is open to the general public.
ArtCenter students are constantly in a state of motion, but Graduation week is when the College positively buzzes with activity both virtually and on campus. Students put the finishing touches on projects, faculty members issue final critiques and graduates-to-be assemble their virtual senior show.
ArtCenter Grad Show
Pasadena Convention Center | Exhibit Halls A and B
300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, CA 91101
A special event for alumni, donors, industry professionals, friends and the ArtCenter community to celebrate our current Summer 2022 graduates and welcome back those who graduated during the pandemic.
Join us for our next guest lecture, Immersive Storytelling: Artist Talk with Isadora Kosofsky
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom.
Thursday August 4th, 2022 | 7PM PT/10PM ET
Isadora Kosofsky is a renowned documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. She is known for long-term projects centered on juvenile and mass incarceration, aging and relationships, healthcare, disability rights, and the impact of childhood trauma on women and families. Ms. Kosofsky began her career as a teenager, focusing on end of life and grief. She takes an immersive approach to documentary photography, often spending months and years with individuals and communities to gain an insider’s perspective. She has embedded with families suffering from rare illness in Latin America, lived under city bridges with unhoused communities in the Southwestern U.S, spent fourteen years photographing one woman’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease, and was one of the first photojournalists in the US allowed inside a COVID+ nursing home. Ms. Kosofsky is a National Geographic Photographer and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, TIME, Le Monde, and others. She received a 2012 Inge Morath Award for her documentation of three seniors in a romantic conflict, which became a book titled “Senior Love Triangle” published by Kehrer Verlag in 2020. The Royal Photo Society recently named her one of a hundred “heroines” in photography worldwide. Ms Kosofsky is a TED Fellow, part of a network of global innovators, and gave a talk about documentary photography at TED 2018 in Vancouver.
Join us for an evening Artist Talk with Diego Uchitel!
In-person at the LA Times Theater (Hillside Campus) + on Zoom.
Thursday July 7th, 2022 | 6PM PT/9PM ET
ArtCenter Photo is thrilled to welcome Diego Uchitel as our next visiting Artist Lecturer as well as Fashion Photography professor for Fall ‘22. Diego Uchitel is an artist with over 30 years of experience photographing the world’s most beautiful and intriguing subjects. Uchitel’s career is defined by his versatility and a preternatural ability to capture the emotion of a stolen moment. With a masterful eye for light and composition, his work is unabashedly romantic and timeless.
Catch up with ArtCenter Photo students and receive a free portrait this Saturday, June 18th. We are thrilled to have a portrait booth at Leimert Park’s annual Juneteenth Festival as part of our new class, “What’s Your Story?” ArtCenter Photo students will be sharing their portrait skills with the community. Participants will receive a FREE 13 x 19 inch color portrait.
We highly recommend that you take the Metro or a rideshare to the festival as parking will be limited in the area.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
“Every year since June 19th, 1865, the Black community has come together in the spirit of freedom. A freedom that still prevails despite systemic threats to existence. Forty years ago Robert Leonard began the tradition of Juneteenth in Leimert Park Village. Since then, it has continued to be celebrated in varying ways.
In 2018, a few dedicated creatives came together to put on the first ever Leimert Park Rising: Juneteenth Celebration. True to the essence of Leimert Park, this event celebrated Black freedom by honoring the ancestors and our community through art, music, food and education.
Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival is located in the historic Leimert Park Village featuring 300+ Black-owned businesses, three main stages, two DJ's stages, a spoken word stage and more. It is not just a market, but a curated experience featuring great food, drinks, music, art and culture, networking opportunities, and the best energy.”
⭑⭑⭑ This event is free and open to all! ⭑⭑⭑
For more information on the festival:
⭑ www.instagram.com/leimertparkjuneteenth/
⭑ www.leimertparkjuneteenth.com/
We hope to see you there!
The Photo Department will be screening Rear Window in the Ahmanson Auditorium at 6pm on Tuesday, June 7th.
We will be ordering pizza and discussing following the screening.
This is open to everyone to attend and enjoy the movie!
We hope to see you there!
Spend your afternoon with ArtCenter Photo!
Join us for our upcoming virtual Artist Talk with Quil Lemons
April 5th | 12PM PT/3PM ET | On Zoom
ArtCenter Photo is thrilled to welcome Quil Lemons as our next visiting Artist Lecturer. Quil is a New York-based photographer with a distinct visual language that interrogates ideas around masculinity, family queerness, race, and beauty.
View more of Quil’s work: quillemons.com + @QuilLemons
Free and open to all!
You’re invited to ArtCenter film screening and conversation of The Bang Bang Club
March 31 | 7PM PT | Attendees must adhere to ArtCenter Campus Access protocols to be permitted on campus.
You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming virtual Artist Talk,
“Photography on the Sly, A Conversation with Melissa Breyer and Bill Shapiro”
March 10th | 12PM PT/3PM ET | On Zoom
We are delighted to have author and former Editor-in-Chief of Life Magazine, Bill Shapiro, facilitating an illuminating conversation with photographer and writer Melissa Breyer. This program will touch on contemporary street photography, women in street photography, publishing photography books, and working with editors.
You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming virtual Artist Talk with Maggie Steber.
December 9th | 4PM PT/7PM ET | On Zoom
Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and has worked in 70 countries photographing stories on the human condition. She was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic magazine. Other honors include Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, the President’s Award from the Overseas Press Club, the Lucie Award for Photojournalism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation Awards, Pictures of the Year Awards, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant and a Knight Foundation Grant.
Steber’s photographs are included in the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation Collection and the Richter Library Collections at the University of Miami. Earlier in her career, Steber worked as a photo editor for Associated Press and Director of Photography at The Miami Herald, as well as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency and lives in Miami, FL.
Please join us as Ricky Weaver, ArtCenter AICAD Fellows Artist is Residence, discusses the relationship between Image Ontology and Dark Sousveillance as it relates to the photographic medium and the ritual of making.
Image Ontology and Dark Sousveillance: Ricky Weaver on the Ritual of Making is an in person and virtual event. ArtCenter Faculty, Students, and Staff are encourage to attend in person at the LA Times Media Center. This event will simultaneously be available on Zoom to the greater ArtCenter Community.
This event is free!
ArtCenter College of Design
Dx3: Dialogues in Diversity & Design
Fall 2021 Virtual Speaker Series
ArtCenter Admissions in collaboration with the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents Dx3: Dialogues in Diversity & Design, a virtual speaker series. For the Fall 2021 edition, we will engage in conversation with influential alumni who have utilized their creativity to inspire, empower and highlight their communities through their own personal narratives and creative careers. Additionally, each alumni speaker will share their pathway to ArtCenter and how their identities informed their pursuit of an art and design education.
Rhombie Sandoval
BFA 14 Photography & Imaging
Thursday, November 18, 2021
6:00PM PT
Rhombie Sandoval is a photographer and storyteller currently residing in Southern California. Her entry into photography started after receiving a camera as a gift from the Make A Wish Foundation, a gesture arranged on her behalf due to being born with heart disease. With the camera, Sandoval realized she could navigate her shyness and connect with people using the camera as a tool to understand various vantage points, searching for and highlighting the common themes linked to one’s identity and location. Sandoval received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from ArtCenter College of Design. She is also the founder of Anywhere Blvd, a platform which features portrait photographers by promoting the narratives of their subjects.
Currently, Sandoval is working on releasing her new body of work ‘King’ shot during her residency in Marrakech, Morocco as a member of The Queens Collective.
Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link the day of the event.
This virtual speaker event with Rhombie Sandoval is co-sponsored by ArtCenter Admissions, the Center for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), and the Photography and Imaging Department.
You’re invited to ArtCenter Photo’s upcoming artist talk, In Conversation with Michael Grant.
November 10th | 6PM PT | On Zoom
Michael Grant was born in Miami, FL and currently works out of Brooklyn, NY. Grant is an artist who investigates aesthetics of blackness, class, family, relationships, and cultural diversities. Grant works across multiple mediums developing bodies of work employing photography, collage, video, sculpture, and sound design. Constantly inspired by the materiality of black culture and its expression through domestic environments, Grant is drawn to non-traditional processes with the aim of showcasing a new standard.
California African American Museum (CAAM) presents, Industrial Residue in the Rust Belt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Taylor Renee Aldridge in Conversation.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, known for practices that span photography, video, performance art and books, that center on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American Experience, joins Taylor Renee Aldridge to discuss Frazier’s ongoing work in documentary film and photography.
In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to celebrate working-class individuals and to address topics of industrialism, environmental justice, workers’ rights, human rights, and family. The Last Cruze extends this impulse by offering a monument to the workers of the former General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, which was “unallocated” in 2019, leaving many of the factory workers unemployed. Frazier and Aldridge will discuss Black Americans’ contributions to the history of industrial advancement in this country, and how post-industrial decline continues to negatively impact working-class communities in Rust Belt cities, like Frazier’s hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze and related programs are presented in partnership with USC School of Architecture, USC Roski School of Art and Design, and USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.
This lecture is in person; masks required. The gallery will open at 6:30 p.m. so you can view "The Last Cruze" before the talk.
You are invited to attend Nomad, presented by the Torrance Art Museum (TAM).
Nomad is a one-weekend only, pop-up, exhibition that features more than 500 artists. The event is one of SoCal’s largest pop-up contemporary exhibition that is created for artists, by artists. ArtCenter Faculty, Ken Marchionno, along with Alumni, Brett Williams and Bibs Moreno, are featured artists in the exhibition.
Saturday, August 28th, 2021, noon-5pm
Sunday, August 29th, noon-5pm
Medical Building, Del Amo Crossing
21535 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA
Attendees will be required to wear face masks.
ArtCenter President, Trustees, Faculty, and Staff proudly present the Summer 2021 graduating class. Graduation will steam live on Zoom on Saturday, August 21, 2021 beginning at 10:00 a.m. (PT).
Immediately after the ceremony, graduating students including friends, family and the ArtCenter community are invited to visit The Grad Show website, which features individual pages for each graduating student to showcase their work. You can visit the Grad Show website at gradshow.artcenter.edu.
Print by April Bey
We are excited to announce that visual artist and art educator April Bey is our second guest speaker of the Summer Term. Bey’s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems.
Bey’s work is in the collection of The California African American Museum, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, and more. Bey has exhibited in biennials NE7, NE8 and NE9 in The Bahamas. Bey has also exhibited internationally in Italy, Spain and Accra Ghana, West Africa.
Bey has launched 5 solo exhibitions: Picky Head at Liquid Courage Gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, COMPLY at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown, Los Angeles, MADE IN SPACE at Band of Vices Gallery in West Adams, a large survey of work spanning several years, Welcome to Atlantica at Fullerton College Art gallery and most recently a solo presentation with UPFOR Gallery at UNTITLED ART ONLINE Art Fair.
Bey is both a practicing contemporary artist and art educator having taught a controversial course at Art Center College of Design called Pretty Hurts analyzing process-based art and Beyoncé hashtag faux feminism. Bey is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College.
Join us Monday, August 9th at 12pm PST. This event is free and open to all!
To receive the Zoom link, please RSVP below.
You’re invited! We hope you can celebrate with us next Wednesday, July 14th at 4:30PM pdt for our virtual SU’21 Student Gallery Opening, hosted by our very own Everard Williams. We will be joined by guest judge and fine artist Andrew Hall as well as student judge Aric Van Halen. Student honorees will have an opportunity to speak about their respective gallery selects and answer questions from the audience.
Free and open to all, RSVP is required to receive the Zoom link.
Photograph by Tim Tadder for Brita
We are excited to announce that advertising photographer Tim Tadder will be our first guest speaker this summer. Tim is an internationally established artist, photographer, and director. His powerful and graphic fine art photography employs bold colors and high-contrast compositions to explore the value of truth, unity, and free-thinking in our current socio-political landscape. Tim’s art expresses the value of hope and imagination in an unprecedented period of world disruption. In the face of threats to our planet and our democracy, his work juxtaposes comfort and consumption, foreboding and freedom, to make sense of the world as it is today.
Join us Tuesday, June 22nd at 6pm PST. This event is free and open to all!
To receive the Zoom link, please RSVP below.
The event Zoom link has been emailed to those who have RSVP’d. If you did not receive a Zoom link, please email photography@artcenter.edu.
If you are an aspiring photographer or creative thinking about the next steps in your progress, join us to learn from today’s top working photographers including:
Gizelle Hernandez, BFA 14
Photographer and Director - celebrity, portraits
Yuya Parker, BFA 16
Photographer and Director - food, fine art, product
Cedric Terrell, BFA 20
Photographer and Director - beauty, portraits
Brett Childs, BFA 20
Photographer and Studio Manager - fine art, portrait
Learn about what it’s like to work in today’s industry, what skills you’ll need, and how to shape your image-making practice. Join us Wednesday, May 26th.
This event is free and open to all.
To receive the Zoom link, please RSVP below. If you are a prospective ArtCenter student, please also complete an additional registration form after RSVP’ing, so an Admissions counselor can connect with you about the application process.
The Zoom link has been emailed to those who RSVP’d! Check your email, and if you didn’t receive it, email us at photography@artcenter.edu so we can resend the link.
© Ken Marchionno
We are excited to share Ken Marchionno’s exhibition at Museum of Art and History (MOAH).
Ken Marchionno is an artist, writer, and curator living in the Los Angeles area and is currently a Professor in Photography and Imaging at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. His work has been presented in Dr. Betty Ann Brown’s Art and Mass Media and Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press and his photography has been featured in a number of magazines and newspapers including the contemporary art quarterly, X-TRA. His creative writing has been included in the literary journals Errant Bodies and Framework. His ongoing project, 300 Miles to Wounded Knee: the Oomaka Tokatakiya Future Generations Ride has been exhibited in The Smithsonian Institution; the U.S. Embassy in Prague; and Yuchun Museum, Suzhou, China.
300 Miles to Wounded Knee: the Ookmaka Tokatakiya Future Generations Ride is a community-engaged photography project that documents the three hundred-mile memorial horseback ride to the sight of the Wounded Knee massacre. Often braving the piercing South Dakota Winter, the journey to Wounded Knee is meant to be an homage to the Lakota people who lost their lives one hundred and thirty years ago, but riders also regard it as a spiritual, cultural and intellectual experience. Machionno’s portrayal of the event strays from the typical exploitative depiction of stoic, poverty-stricken Native Americans and reservation life and offers an empowering representation of their journey. His documentation offers a contemporary lens that highlights the autonomy and self-empowerment of the Lakota people.
