Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus
Los Angeles Times Media Center
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
The Art Center Graduate Art MFA program is pleased to announce its fall 2015 Graduate lecture series, organized by Bruce Hainley and Annette Weisser.
The fall lecture series is organized loosely around the concept of ecology, with lectures covering themes such as sustainable art practices, the influence of climate change on social relations and, in a very concrete sense, water and the scarcity thereof in Southern California.
Unless otherwise indicated, lectures take place in the L.A. Times Auditorium on Art Center’s Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena 91103. All lectures are free and open to the public. Check our website to confirm dates, times and locations for the lecture series and for more information about the Graduate Art program.
September 15: Larry Johnson
September 22: Noura Wedell
October 6: Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
October 27: Katrin Pesch on Claire Denis
November 5: Teddy Cruz
November 10: Fritz Haeg
November 24: Matthew Coolidge/The Center for Land Use Interpretation
December 1: Susan Philipsz
With a core faculty of 11 internationally recognized artists and writers, an adjunct faculty of 21, and a total of 35 students, we have the highest faculty-to-student ratio of all comparable MFA programs. The result is an intense work environment where concentrated artmaking 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.
Fundamental to our program are one-on-one studio visits with faculty and rigorous critical, academic and practical coursework. We extend our reach internationally, inviting artists and writers―famous and infamous―as well as historians and philosophers for weekly seminars and our biannual conference series. Coming from and going to Europe respectively, our artist-in-residence partnership and student exchange link us with programs in Paris, Berlin and Cologne.
Closer to home, indeed at home, is Los Angeles, one of the world’s great art capitals. Closer still is the world-class design school to which we are connected, with leading edge software and hardware technology and the equipment that goes with it. On site, we provide students with individual studios, a fabrication shop, several gallery spaces, and dedicated computing and moving image production labs. We make our public gallery spaces and project rooms available to all candidates, from the first term through the sixth, when every graduating student mounts a final solo show.
