Otis College

Otis College of Art and Design celebrates the Class of 2022 on May 15, 2022 at a ticketed event for graduates and their guests at the Westin LAX Hotel; the ceremony will also be livestreamed for the public on Otis.edu. This year’s 2022 honorary degree recipients include supermodel and Kora Organics founder and CEO Miranda Kerr; Evan Spiegel, Co-Founder and CEO of Snap Inc.; and Queer Eye host and design expert Bobby Berk. 

The Foundation program at Otis College presents a lecture by interdisciplinary artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo as part of the Foundation Public Speaker Series 2022.

The Otis College of Art and Design’s Undergraduate Fine Arts Department presents Anicka Yi as the Mandy & Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series speaker and Visiting Artist for Spring 2022. 

NOTE: Due to the continuing pandemic conditions, for the health and safety of everyone, this lecture will be accessible for the general public only via Zoom.  At this time, the immediate Otis Community can attend in-person in the Forum on the Goldsmith campus.

The Fine Arts Department presents the Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Naotaka Hiro. 

Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972 in Osaka, Japan) received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, and BFA from UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. His multimedia practice, spanning painting, sculpture, and video, confronts the body’s capabilities and unknowable spaces. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

The BFA Fine Arts Department presents the Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Dawn Kim.

Dawn Kim (b. 1989) received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT and her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her work examines (mis)recorded histories to better understand the complexities of the everyday. Taking on forms of video, artist’s books, and performance lectures, her work attempts to make visible the systems that have been hidden, forgotten, or overlooked.

Jibz Cameron is a performer, visual artist, and actor. Her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag has spanned over 15 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, The Kitchen, BAM, and Centre Pompidou, among others. She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by the New Yorker.

Please join us in welcoming Joe Moshier from Sony Pictures Animation as guest lecturer in the Digital Media program's Fall 2021 Speaker Series.