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Why AxS from ArtCenter
Join us as we investigate the powers of art and science–and the extraordinary, unexpected outcomes when the two fields intersect. This four-part series features prominent artists and scientists tackling big ideas about dark matter and transcendence from right- and left-brain points of view. At A...
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Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter: Indigenous Futurism
In the fourth episode of the Why AxS podcast—where brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the important whys—we explore the rise of Futurism i...
Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter: Dark Matter
Ready to go dark and get deep? In the third episode of the Why AxS podcast—where brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the important whys—we...
Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter: Art and Science
Did you know the intersection of art + science has been rooted in the DNA of Los Angeles from the very beginning?
In this episode of our Why AxS...
Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter: Rosetta Mission
Welcome to the Why AxS, ArtCenter’s podcast featuring brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the big why's that come with being a tiny part of...
Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter
Join us for ArtCenter’s new mini-series investigating the powers of art and science–and the extraordinary, unexpected outcomes when the two fields int...
Karen Hofmann on building an accessible, affordable and inclusive education
To many of our listeners, this guest needs no introduction. She is someone who has burst through seemingly impenetrable ceilings – glass and otherwise...
Jackie Amezquita on migration, memory and making art
When we first heard from Jackie Amezquita four years ago, she was an ArtCenter Fine Art student on the cusp of graduating. In a raw and revealing inte...
Aimee Mullins on Finding a World of Possibilities in Every Problem
Aimee Mullins is a true polymath. Her passions and professional pursuits are as varied and boundless as the awards and groundbreaking strides she’s ac...
Artist Lita Albuquerque on Regeneration After the Fire
We’re lucky as artists that we can recover much faster because we can express. Nature recovers and we recover.
Lita Albuquerque is an artist wh...
Artist Kim Schoenstadt on finding redemption through creativity and kinship
Client hypothetical. This is the term pioneering architect and designer Eileen Gray used to classify the many Modernist masterpieces she designed in t...
James Meraz on creating a path through unimaginable loss
James Meraz joined the faculty of ArtCenter’s Environmental Design department in September of 2001, shortly before 9/11. In the wake of that tragedy h...
Change Lab Season 10: Forged in Fire, Make to Heal
The next season of Change Lab debuts on March 23. We’re calling it Forged in Fire: Make to Heal and we’re looking at the ways in which adversity can b...
53 Google's Ivy Ross on Reimagining the Life You're Meant to Live
As Google’s vice president of hardware design, Ivy Ross is breaking new ground in the physical world for a trillion-dollar company synonymous with bui...
52 Tisha Johnson on design as a growth mindset
In the two decades since she graduated from ArtCenter with a degree in Transportation Design, Tisha Johnson has blazed trails for female design leader...
51 Aimee Bender on writing into uncertainty
For novelist Aimee Bender, magic is not a limited resource. Nor is it something to be feared, coveted, mistrusted or monetized. In her view, rather, m...
50 Ann Hamilton on the Power of I-Don’t-Know
To experience one of Ann Hamilton’s installations is to be transported into a world of invention unlike any other. Recognized for her large-scale publ...
49 Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art
To call Mike Shinoda a rock star would be technically accurate and yet incomplete. He is the lead singer and driving force behind Linkin Park (one of...
48 Artist Diana Thater is determined to reveal a world worth saving
For Diana Thater making art is like oxygen. It sustains and nourishes her. And when her access to it is suddenly limited -- as it was in the spring of...
Change Lab Season 9: Make to Know
Pop quiz: Do artists and designers create to express what you know? Or do we make things to get to know ourselves and the world we inhabit?
Tho...
47 Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
Erika Endrijonas isn’t just an advocate for the pivotal role community colleges play in providing equal access to the American Dream. She is also an a...
46 UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ on creating institutional change from within
There are many apt metaphors for Carol Christ’s achievements. Most of them have to do with breaking things like glass ceilings or barriers or new grou...
45 Fuller Seminary President Mark Labberton on the theology of making
As President of Fuller Theological Seminary (with more than three decades of pastoral experience behind him), Mark Labberton is more than comfortable...
44 Dan Brodnitz on democratizing education at LinkedIn Learning
Dan Brodnitz didn’t set out to join a revolution in online education. He saw himself changing hearts and minds through his novels and poetry. Fate, ho...
43 Occidental College President Harry Elam on finding a roadmap for systemic change in revolutionary theater movements
Harry Elam and Lorne had only met casually before we sat down to record this episode of Change Lab. Interestingly, they had spent much of their early...
42 D’Wayne Edwards on building a pipeline for diversity in sneaker design
D’Wayne has a lot in common with Michael Jordan, his former boss. His appetite for excellence has propelled him to superlative success. D’Wayne turned...
Change Lab Season 8: Reinventing Education
As we begin a new year and a new season of change lab, I think most of us are torn between looking forward with hope and looking back with a kind of w...
41 Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives
Elle Hearns did not set out to lead movements for social justice. Nor was it her lifelong dream to make the world a better and safer place for Black t...
40 Grace Lynne Haynes on painting to redefine darkness and light
Grace Lynne Haynes’ creative calling didn’t announce itself until she set foot in her first college painting class. But from that moment forward, Grac...
Change Lab Presents: Micheaux Mission
Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcasts by, for or about the Black community.
This week w...
39 Cedric Johnson on thinking historically about racial justice and the policing crisis
Last year, Cedric Johnson embedded himself at ArtCenter for a week-long residency. Included in that visit was a talk about the policing crisis as well...
Change Lab Presents: Scene On Radio
Welcome to our third episode of Change Lab Presents
Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcas...
38 Kevin Bethune on realizing dreams through design
Like the consummate designer he is -- Kevin Bethune has iterated his own job description.
Kevin’s strikingly diverse career-path includes stint...
Change Lab Presents: The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Welcome to our second episode of Change Lab Presents
Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a series of bonus episodes we’v...
37 Photographer Barbara DuMetz on bringing diversity to both sides of the camera
Throughout her long and distinguished career as a commercial and fine art photographer, Barbara DuMetz has produced images that feel familiar even if...
Change Lab Presents: The Institute of Black Imagination
Welcome to our first episode of Change Lab Presents
Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcas...
36 Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance
There is something almost poetic about beginning this season, dedicated to amplifying Black voices, with today’s interview with Bob Davidson, who rece...
Change Lab Season 07 Trailer
On September 23rd, Change Lab will kick off its seventh season, which is dedicated to amplifying Black voices in art, design and activism. Much has ch...
35 Graffiti artist Chaz Bojorquez on straddling the street and the Smithsonian
This episode of Change Lab happens to be the last one of this season and we’ll resume again, as usual, in the fall. And though it wasn’t planned this...
34 Get Lit Words Ignite founder Diane Luby Lane on empowering teens through spoken word poetry
Diane Luby Lane is the founder and executive director of Get Lit-Words Ignite, a leading arts education nonprofit dedicated to increasing literacy and...
33 Dennis Gassner on the ‘method’ behind his Oscar-winning production design
Storytelling is Dennis Gassner’s mother tongue. It’s the language – and the context -- through which the ArtCenter alum and legendary production desig...