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10/27/2026

APPLY NOW! EARN YOUR MFA DEGREE IN ART AT ARTCENTER!

MFA Priority Deadline January 15, 2027

Graduate Art at ArtCenter College of Design is an interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts program that encourages divergent ideas and methods. With a core faculty of five internationally recognized artists and writers, part-time and visiting faculty, and an average of 30 students, we have one of the lowest faculty-to-student ratio among comparable MFA programs. The result is an intense work environment where concentrated art-making is assured equally concentrated and careful attention, whether within specific disciplines or among them: in film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and everything in between.

MFA Art Live Online Info Session: Thursday November 5, 2026, 6-7p Register Now!

Open Studios: Thursday, December 10, 2026, 6–9pm
ArtCenter College of Design (South Campus)
MFA Art Studios + Hixon Courtyard
950 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105

Graduate Seminar Lecture Series (open to the p***c)
Tuesdays, 7:00pm PST, LA Times Media Center
ArtCenter College of Design (Hillside Campus)
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, California 91103

Contact: [email protected]

Image courtesy of Meghan Sabik, Interior Warehouse, 2024, Video, 10 min. looped. Photo Credit: Jazmin Urrea. Sabik most recently contributed artworks to I Want Your S*x, a film by Gregg Araki, 2026

Image courtesy of Milan Aguirre, Evel (HEAD), 2026, Polychromed carved wood, 8” x 12” x 9,” Photo Credit: Aylee Rhodes.

Image courtesy of Aylee Rhodes, He Loves Me, 2026, Ink Jet Print, plexiglass, acrylic block, led neon strip.

10/23/2026

We are delighted to announce that our seventh Graduate Seminar speaker will be Sean Raspet.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 27th October, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103. This event is free and open to the public.

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Sean Raspet has been working with scent and molecular structure for over 10 years. He is a cofounder of Patina, an olfactory molecule design startup that is creating the “RGB colorspace” for the sense of smell. Raspet holds patents on a number of the molecules he has developed, using the legal-administrative patent system as the primary site where the molecule works are presented to the public. Previously, he worked in research and development at Soylent, where several of his formulations were absorbed into the product line. In addition, he was a co-founder of Nonfood, an algae-based food company. His work operates outside the specialized art economy, in the mass economy, where new materials circulate at industrial scale.

Raspet’s work has been exhibited at the Okayama Art Summit (directed by Pierre Huyghe); Tai Kwun Contemporary Art Centre, Hong Kong, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; de Young Museum, San Francisco; M Woods Museum, Beijing; the 9th Berlin Biennale; Bridget Donahue, New York; Société, Berlin; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; Empty Gallery, Hong Kong; Sculpture Center, New York; and The Kitchen, New York; among others.

Image rights:
1) Sean Raspet, ‘nonfood’, 2018, courtesy of the artist.
2) Sean Raspet portrait, Bridget Bardore.

10/16/2026

We are delighted to announce that our sixth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Eric Wesley.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 20th October, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103.
This lecture is free and open to the public.

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Eric Wesley (b. 1973 in Los Angeles; based in Los Angeles) is a conceptual artist working in various different mediums. His work explores the interactions of fine art with popular culture, science and humor.

Wesley is the co-founder of MSA (Mountain School of Art) in Los Angeles. Wesley has participated in the 2022 and 2004 Whitney Biennials and the 2014 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions including MOCA Los Angeles and Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.

Wesley’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Sculpture Center, New York, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. His work can be found in the public collection at the Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy; and MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, David Kordansky, Jeffrey Deitch, Gattopardo, Tara Walters, Alan Hergott, and an anonymous donor.

Image rights:
1) Eric Wesley, Infinity Project (black), courtesy of the artist.
2) Eric Wesley, courtesy of the artist.

10/10/2026

We are delighted to announce that our fifth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Alex Hubbard in conversation with Richard Hawkins.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 13th October, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975 Toledo, Oregon) received a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland in 1999. In 2003 he attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Richard Hawkins lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibiting since the early 1990s, he has developed a body of work that turns on the erotics of visibility, fueled by what he calls “a combination of historical research and boyish obsessions.” Such deep delves into figures as diverse as Forrest Bess, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Pierre Bonnard has led to a multifarious practice spanning painting, collage, video, ceramics, sculpture, fiction and more.

Image rights: 1) Installation view of Alex Hubbard’s exhibition, Abstract or Regular, courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2) Alex Hubbard, courtesy of the artist.
3) Richard Hawkins, courtesy of the artist.

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975 Toledo, Oregon) received a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland in 1999. In 2003 he attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Selected solo exhibitions include Cranford Arts Collection, London (2015); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); The Kitchen, New York (2010); KunstHalle Berlin, Berlin (2010); Mercer Union, Toronto (2010); and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2009). Hubbard’s works have also been featured in group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022–2023); de la Cruz Collection, Miami (2022–2023); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2018); Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2016); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2016); Whitney Museu

10/07/2026

This week the Graduate Press class got hands on with a Risograph!

Students learnt the in’s and out’s of Riso printing using collaborative line drawings made for an exciting upcoming project with Hauser & Wirth‘s Los Angeles Art Galleries inspired by the current Glenn Ligon exhibition.

A big thank you to Bonnie Lee for taking the time to run such a brilliant demo!

10/03/2026

📣Attention all Spring 2025 Graduates!📣

DEADLINE EXTENDED until October 18th!
_______________________________________________

Congratulations! You earned it.

We want to support and celebrate
your success as you transition
from college to career! Please stay
connected by completing our online
graduate employment survey.
Your responses will help us to better
serve current and future students.

If you graduated in spring 2025 the survey link will be sent via email.
Please make sure the College has
your current email address.

A $10 digital reward will be available
on completion.

For questions, contact
Sarah Fitzpatrick
Center for Educational Effectiveness
[email protected]

10/02/2026

Congratulations to Diana Thater, Chair of the Art Department at ArtCenter who will be showing work in Ecotechnics at UCI Beall Center

Opening reception - Saturday, October 10th, 2 - 5 pm.

Exhibition will be open from 10/10/26 until 02/06/27, Tues to Sat, 12-6pm.

712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, CA, 92697

10/02/2026

MFA faculty Jan Tumlir will be in conversation with Kim Schoen for the finissage of her show at Die Plek

11am, 10/03/26

DIE PLEK
8758 Holloway Drive
West Hollywood, CA
90069

10/01/2026

We are delighted to announce that our fourth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Won Ju Lim.

The event will be held on Tuesday, October 6th, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces drawing upon empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority.

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at UCR Arts, Riverside; the Elzig Museum, Istanbul; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; the Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art, Seoul; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Her triennial and biennial exhibitions include Counterpublic Triennial 2026: Coyote Time, St. Louis; International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands; the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale, Münster.

Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Lim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Woodbury University and an MFA in Studio Art from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Image rights: 1) Won Ju Lim, That Sense of Complexity…, exhibition view, UCR Arts, Photo by Nickolay Maslov.
2) Won Ju Lim, portrait, courtesy of the artist.

09/24/2026

We are very excited to announce that our third Graduate Seminar speaker will be Kathryn Andrews.

The event will be held on Tuesday, September 29th, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Kathryn Andrews is a conceptual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, printmaking, and performance. Andrews’ work invites viewers to consider their own relationship to histories of violence.

Andrews has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; the High Line, New York; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and the Bass Museum of Art, Miami. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tense Conditions at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; and In Production: Art and the Studio System at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.

Andrews is also the Founder and Director of The Judith Center, a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that addresses structural sexism through interdisciplinary initiatives spanning the arts, sciences, and public policy.

Andrews holds an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, a BA in Documentary Studies from Duke University, Durham, and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. In addition to her work as an artist and with The Judith Center, Andrews is a psychotherapist.

Image rights, 1) Kathryn Andrew, Circus Empire, courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE.
2) Kathryn Andrews, courtesy of the artist.

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