Partner with Otis College

Creativity and innovation are key components of success in today’s dynamic environment of continuous change.

As L.A.’s first independent professional school of art and design founded in 1918, Otis has trained artists and designers who are in the vanguard of Southern California’s cultural and entrepreneurial life. Otis Extension leverages the creative talents of our artistic community to develop and deliver customized innovative programs to match and surpass your needs.

Through External Programs, Extension offers a wide range of creative solutions that serve businesses, educational institutions, and the community. Adult and youth programming includes Workforce Development, Career Technical Education, Corporate Partnerships, Custom Programs, Professional Development, Collaborative Partnerships, and more.

Programs are taught by highly qualified instructors that are art and/or design professionals, experts in their fields, as well as skilled art educators.

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Custom Corporate Programs

Looking for ways to spark creative ideas, build a culture of collaboration and camaraderie within your organization, or just have some fun with your employees and colleagues?

We have programs and workshop series focused on creativity, imagination, and innovation that are designed to empower one’s creative thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, while encouraging self-expression and inspiration. Whether one is a creative or analytical thinker, creative thinking enhances one’s ability to brainstorm, work better in teams, and come up with more and better solutions to everyday life and work challenges.  

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Custom Programs for International Audiences

Extension offers customized programs for the international community – whether attending as guests on campus here in the United States or at locations abroad. Based on the objectives of the client, we develop customized programming to meet your imaginative, artistic, and skill-based needs. Using Los Angeles as a lab for creativity and ideation or bringing that creativity to your location, our programs are developed to suit each client’s unique needs.

Watch Exploring Creativity, a snapshot of an international program in action.

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Collaborative Partnerships

Do you have a program or an idea with which you would like to collaborate? Extension has a number of partnerships and alliances with entities in various sectors including non-profit, education, business, international, and government. Some examples of programs include:

• Providing short courses to youth in underserved communities through local non-profits
• Collaborating on course offerings with other educational institutions
• Offering programs to international audiences via liaisons that represent the international entities

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Professional Development for Educators

Extension has deep experience in educating educators. Through programs such as the Otis Creativity Program for Teachers, we demonstrate creative approaches that are intended to enhance learning to teacher groups from school districts and/or schools. This creative team-building experience focuses on brainstorming, making a habit of creativity, collaboration, improvisation, and more. Custom designed programs are available in numerous areas such as integrating the arts into curriculum, design thinking approaches to problem solving and ideation, and specific artistic skills to name a few.

Giving back! Otis College Extension offers free tuition to teachers. Through the Teacher Tuition Waiver Program, full-time K-12 teachers from LA County and CTE AME teachers statewide are eligible to waive tuition on most Extension courses. For details, see the Teacher Tuition Waiver One Sheet.

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High School Programs

Otis Extension partners with high schools to provide custom workshops and courses. Whether as a part of Career Technical Education (CTE) programs or other areas of study in art and design, our expert instructors provide high-quality art education in a variety of subjects from Architecture to Game Design to Drawing and Composition.

From short workshops to longer dual-enrollment courses for college credit, we can customize courses for every art and design need. Some recent examples include dual-enrollment courses for beginning or advanced students in a CTE Pathway, ten- and twenty-hour workshops, multiple-day experiences such as visits to cultural institutions tied to art-making activities that may include access to Otis labs, and one-day creativity workshops focused on developing skills in brainstorming, making a habit of creativity, collaboration, improvisation. View a case study for the CTE Architecture Pathway Advanced Design Course on Platonic Solids. For more details about CTE and High School programs, see the High School Programs One Sheet. If you've got an idea, let's work together to shape that idea into a program that meets and surpasses the original vision.

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Youth Programming

If you dream it, we can build it -- or we can envision it together! Our extensive experience in creating youth programming has resulted in numerous courses and programs and art experiences for youth from ages five and up. We can partner with other educational institutions, non-profits, travel programs, businesses and more to provide a high-quality art education experience that taps into one’s imagination, creative spirit, and artistic skills. Programs range from short workshops to longer courses to field trips with art-making components and more! 

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Programs Designed for Your Needs…

• Program formats and delivery models are adapted and tailored to fit your specific needs.
• We can host your program at the Otis main campus, off-site, online, or as a hybrid depending on your preference and timing.
• Programs can be as short as a one-day program, a series of one-hour workshops or as long as multiple weeks or months.
• Minimum and maximum numbers of attendees are flexible based on your needs and the program design.

Let’s Connect

To learn more about what we have to offer or to request a proposal, contact the Extension team by email at extension@otis.edu or by phone at (310) 665-6850.

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Partial List of Current and Past Partners