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Otis College Alumnx and Former Faculty Featured in LACMA’s Black American Portraits Exhibition Through April 17

Several members of the extended Otis Community are featured in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) exhibition, Black American Portraits, which is on view through April 17, 2022.

Fashion Designer Rick Owens Shares His Thoughts on Designing in This Moment 

In the past year, few fashion designers have spoken to the moment as eloquently and honestly as Rick Owens. The Paris-based designer grew up in Porterville, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, in a household that prioritized books and reading over television, where memories of the pageantry and mystery of going to Catholic mass still impact his work. “That was my first taste of exoticism. All of these dragging robes, these gray dusty temples—it was exotic and glamorous, but also connected to morality,” he said to Clarissa M.

Rick Owens on His Fall/Winter 2021 Women’s Collection and Connecting Values to Fashion

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Designer Rick Owens Discusses His Design Process

Headlines

  • Otis College instructor with Snap Lens Lab students
    Snap Lens Lab at Otis College Lets High Schoolers Create AR Experiences
    June 29
  • Otis College alum Keila Medina Villanueva on a potter's wheel
    Watch the CBS News Video on the Impact of the Spiegel Family Fund Gift of Loan Repayment on Two Otis College Alumni
    May 31
  • Milku Lee and Kulapat Yantrasast
    Otis College of Art and Design Announces Miky Lee, Vice Chairwoman of CJ Group, as 2023 Commencement Speaker
    April 11

Full Circle: Alumnus Vincent Ramos Curates Powerful Exhibition at LACMA

On January 27, A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America will open to the public at Charles White Elementary School. Curated by artist and educator Vincent Ramos (BFA Fine Arts '02), the exhibition displays works by contemporary Latino artists, writers, and activists exploring loss, resilience, and the political potential of poetic expression alongside several pieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) collection.