OTIS News

Creativty is Serious Business at Otis

5.17.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Check out our new website, creativityisseriousbusiness.com, and see videos and read interviews with 22 alumni who have started t...

Learn something new this summer

5.17.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Visit Otis on Sunday, May 20, from 1-3 pm and attend free workshops, meet instructors, tour the facilities, and see student work...

Benefit and Fashion Show raises more than $1 million for scholarships

5.14.2012 12:00 AM PDT

On May 5 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, appoximately 800 guests gathered for dinner, a silent auction, and a spectacular runway sh...

Runway Show displays student designs

5.14.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Fashion Design students showed off their work at the annual Scholarship Benefit and Fashion Show on May 5. Scroll to see runway ...

Annual exhibition preview livestreamed

5.10.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Get a close-up view of the annual exhibition preview via streaming video (starting at 5:30 pm), and stop by Friday night between...

Work of the Week: A/L/I Students

5.8.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Work of the Week A/L/I Students Each week a new example of student work is featured on the home page. Keep checking back for...

Top Five in Animation Programs

5.7.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Animation Career Review ranked Otis #4 of its top 20 animation programs in the West. See senior project by Lindsay Thompso...

Sophomore wins BritWeek design prize

5.7.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Karolina Kurek, Otis Product Design sophomore, won first place in the Christopher Guy BritWeek Design Award Competition. Britis...

Annual Exhibition one night only May 11

5.4.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Visit the campus to see work by 300 graduates on Friday, May 11 from 6-9 pm. This annual exhibition includes final projects by B...

Meticulosity opens at Ben Maltz Gallery

4.28.2012 12:00 AM PDT

A reception for the eleven artists in Meticulosity at the Ben Maltz Gallery takes place on Saturday, April 28, 4-6 pm. The show,...

Work of the Week: Dominique Lemieux of Cirque de Soleil advises Fashion students

4.27.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Work of the Week Dominique Lemieux of Cirque de Soleil advises Fashion senior students. Each week a new example of student w...

Faculty member Jacci denHartog wins Guggenheim Fellowship

4.12.2012 12:00 AM PDT

The John S. Guggenheim Foundation named faculty member Jacci denHartog as one of its 2012 fellows. The Foundation awarded fellow...

Donghia master class

3.27.2012 12:00 AM PDT

For the last four years, the Angelo Donghia Foundation has supported a one-week master class in which Architecture/Landscape/Int...

Summer plans?

3.22.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Summer of Art's four-week college prep program is open to students 15 or older who wish to study at one of the top art and desig...

Faculty and alumni selected for Made in L.A. Biennial

3.14.2012 12:00 AM PDT

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Graduate Fine Arts Chair Roy Dowell awarded grant

3.13.2012 12:00 AM PDT

Roy Dowell, Chair of the MFA FIne Arts program, was awarded an ARC (Artists' Resource for Completion) Grant for his upcoming sho...

Faculty member John Knight in Whitney Biennial

2.28.2012 12:00 AM PST

Graduate Fine Arts faculty member John Knight is one of 54 artists whose work is included in the Whitney Museum's Biennial, Marc...

President Hoi speaks at NEA Arts Education Roundtable

2.23.2012 12:00 AM PST

On February 14, the NEA held a roundtable discussion/webcast to explore ideas about improving arts education standards and asses...

Otis Clay in LA Times review

2.13.2012 12:00 AM PST

In his Feb 9 review, LA Times Art Critic Christopher Knight describes a "slow swirl at the edge of the Pacific," referring to th...

Explore the Era with Getty videos

1.31.2012 12:00 AM PST

The Getty has produced a series of interviews, “Explore the Era,” as part of its initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L....

What is a portable park?

1.24.2012 12:00 AM PST

Find out this weekend on Saturday, Jan 28 at Santa Monica Place from 11-2. Artist Bonnie Ora Sherk created The Flower Unfolding,...

Fragments of Terror by Faculty member Jim Starrett

1.20.2012 12:00 AM PST

For the last 32 years, faculty member Jim Starrett has been producing drawings related to the Holocaust. The work is featured in...

LA Times features Lacy project, Woman's Bldg founder Sheila de Bretteville

1.17.2012 12:00 AM PST

Sunday's L.A. Times featured two stories about powerful women in the arts; Graduate Public Practice Chair Suzanne Lacy and found...

Mayor Villaraigosa news conference launches Suzanne Lacy's rape project

1.11.2012 12:00 AM PST

On Thursday afternoon (Jan 12), Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa held a press conference to launch "Three Weeks in J...

Alumnus Scott Derman's Evil Dr Porkchop

1.6.2012 12:00 AM PST

Toy Designer Scott Derman ('05) talks about designing this toy for "Toy Story 3" with his team at Mattel. Watch the video.