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BFA BORN STREETS ON THE L.A. OF I AM READY FOR MY LIFE TO CHANGE. TO CREATE. TO LIVE I MFA “ One of the best design schools in the country,” Otis has been a mainstay of the Los Angeles education scene since 1918. This “artist’s boot camp” is considered “one of the top art schools in the U.S.” — The Princeton Review Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Telephone: (310) 665-6800 / (800) 527-OTIS (6847) Email: [email protected] Website: www.otis.edu ©2014 Text, illustrations, and photographs Photography Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of may not be reproduced or utilized in any form Kelly Akashi ’07, Kristy Campbell, Tom Carey, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, without the written permission of Otis College Banty Castellanos, Sandra de la Loza, Jessica which respectively prohibit such forms of of Art and Design. Information in this Fleischmann, Kai He, Nicole Jenkins, Nomi discrimination. The following personnel publication is subject to change without notice. Kadetz, Allison Knight, Ana Llorente, Ari have been designated to handle inquiries Marcopoulos, Channing Martinez, Wayne regarding Otis’ nondiscrimination policies: Creative Direction and Design McCall, Lily Ramirez, David Roy, Wendy Silva, • Dana Lopez, Vice President for Human Anne Swett-Predock Lacy Stoffer, Anne Swett-Predock, Holly Tempo, Resources & Development: DISTINC_ Joshua Villalobos, George Widodo (310) 665-6862 • Carol Branch, Ph.D., Director, Student Editing Statement of Nondiscrimination Resources Center, and Title IX Coordinator: John Axtell, Margi Reeve, Otis does not discriminate on the basis of (310) 846-2554 Yvette Sobky Shaffer race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, or age. Correspondence may be addressed to the above Printing Otis seeks compliance with Title VI of the Civil personnel at Otis College of Art and Design, Typecraft, Wood & Jones, Inc. Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. I AM SERIOUS. MFA Discover Otis 9 PROG R AM S OF STUDY Graduate Fine Arts 10 Graduate Graphic Design 16 Graduate Public Practice 22 Graduate Writing 28 Studio Year 32 HOW TO APPLY Requirements 34 International Students 34 Decisions 35 Costs and Financial Aid 36 I BELONG IN THE CREATIVE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. I LEARN FROM THE BEST. T H I S I S M Y T I M E . MFA PROGRAMS IN FINE Arts GRAPHIC DESIGN PUBLIC Practice WRITING 8 DISCOVER OTIS Otis’ graduate programs provide rigorous, practice-based studies with distinguished faculty. The four remarkable Chairs The graduate programs emphasize an who lead Otis’ MFA programs— interdisciplinary approach to developing Roy Dowell in Fine Arts, Kali Nikitas in Graphic Design, artistic vision and encourage students to find Suzanne Lacy in Public themselves as emerging professionals within Practice, and Paul Vangelisti in Writing—have formed a the regional, national, and international scenes creative community in which of art, design, and creative writing. artists, writers, designers, and community activists interact and enrich one another’s work. Interested students are given additional preparation to make their way in professions that increasingly involve teaching or affiliation with cultural institutions. The close proximity of art museums, galleries, and studios allows students to experience some of the most significant work currently being made. Students’ developing practices are enriched by visiting artists and writers who give guest lectures, studio visits, and readings. 9 GRADUatE FINE Arts The two-year MFA Program in Fine Arts inspires students to build a lifelong individual artistic practice in the context of Los Angeles, a world center of production in contemporary art—rich in art museums, galleries, studios, and other cultural institutions. Students refine their personal vision through the filter of such topics as history, gender, sexuality, culture, and politics. Whether a student’s practice is in painting, sculpture, video, photography, or other media, the program builds community and encourages an interdisciplinary approach that responds to contemporary issues, practices, and discourses. Notable alumni include Kim Fisher, Patrick Hill, Alison Saar, Masami Teraoka, Jeffrey Vallance, and Bruce Yonemoto. Culver City GrAduate STudios students to a broader context of art practice. Students have individual skylighted studios in This combination of extensive critique both on a high-ceilinged warehouse in the nearby campus and in travel study opportunities gives burgeoning arts district of Culver City, one of Otis alumni a foothold within the art world from L.A.’s most vibrant art production areas recently which they can launch careers with longevity. dubbed “America’s Artist Super City” by the Center for Cultural Innovation. This spacious ExHiBiTions and Open STudios facility also includes a gallery space, project and Students produce work that reflects their ideas seminar rooms, a shop, and a computer lab. and ambitions as well as contemporary issues and concerns. In the second year, each student presents BuiLding A Practice a solo exhibition in the Helen and Abraham Bolsky Through one-on-one interaction with faculty and Gallery on Otis’ main campus. A highly flexible space, distinguished visiting artists and critics, students the gallery enables the display of a wide variety acquire the necessary technical and theoretical of work. Students experiment artistically and resources to develop an understanding of the develop their installation and curatorial skills in this demands of a professional practice. They examine professional environment. In spring, a celebratory the artist’s role in society while immersing Graduate Open Studios event draws large crowds themselves in current issues in contemporary from L.A.’s arts community, including gallery arts, intellectual life, philosophy, literature, dealers, curators, collectors, critics, and artists. and the professional field of art production. The studio environment reflects the real workings of the multilayered and diverse art world. International exchanges (the Netherlands, France, Mexico), artist residencies (Anderson Ranch in Colorado, Skowhegan in Maine), and teacher training programs (Armory Center in Pasadena) expose Alec Egan MFA ’13, Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas 10 11 Faculty Roy Dowell, FOuNdiNG CHAir CArOLE CAroompas, PrOFESSOr SOO KiM, PrOFESSOr, director OF THE MFA, BFA California Institute of the Arts. MFA University of Southern California, PhotogrAPHY PrOGrAM iN FiNE Arts Dowell’s abstract paintings and sculptures BA California State University, Fullerton. MFA California Institute of the Arts, BA deal with hybridity, referencing world Caroompas’ paintings combine a diversity University of California, Riverside. An artist, cultures, design, and art history. Recent of techniques and high-low popular culture writer, and curator, Kim questions the nature solo exhibitions in Mexico City, Los Angeles, imagery influenced by literature and cinema. of the way photographic images are read, Seattle, and New York. Works collected by the Retrospective exhibition at Otis Ben Maltz made, and exchanged, addressing issues Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Gallery. Selected exhibitions at Mark Moore of photographic transparency, ubiquity, of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and (Santa Monica), P.P.O.W. (New York), Hammer and the rapid consumption of images. Hammer Museum (UCLA). Represented by Museum (UCLA), and Corcoran Gallery of Art Exhibitions include the J. Paul Getty Museum Various Small Fires (Los Angeles) and Lennon/ (Washington, DC). Group exhibitions include (Los Angeles), DCKT Gallery (New York), Weinberg, Inc. (New York). Awards include the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 National Center for the Arts (El Salvador), J. Paul Getty Fellowship in the Visual Arts (Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Gwangju Biennale (Korea), Whitney Museum and Art Matters. Artist in Residence at Pasadena Museum of Southern California (New York), and American Cinemateque Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Colorado), and Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). (San Francisco). Works in numerous public Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design Represented by Western Project (Culver City). and private collections, including the Los (Auckland, New Zealand). Awards include two National Endowment Angeles County Museum of Art and the for the Arts fellowships, the John Simon Broad Foundation. Represented by Angles Annetta KAPON, PrOFESSOr ANd Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and a Gallery (Los Angeles) and Julie Saul Gallery ASSistant CHAir California Community Foundation grant. (New York). MFA UCLA, MA University of London, BFA Otis, BA Aristotle University (Greece). Matt CArTEr, JOHN KNiGHT, SENiOr LECTurEr Kapon’s work in sculpture, photography, and ASSistant/GrAduate STudiOS MFA University of California, Irvine. video has been variously described as “witty,” MFA Otis College of Art and Design, Knight’s works defy notions of stylistic “menacing,” and “absurd.” Selected solo BFA Southern Illinois University. Rooted coherence, even, at times, of instant exhibitions at Las Cienegas Projects, French in the history of pattern and decoration, recognizability. Knight has developed a Institute (Greece), and Southern Exposure minimalism and popular culture, Carter’s practice of site specificity that tests both (San Francisco). Work collected by the State paintings and sculptures push the architectural and ideological boundaries Museum of Contemporary
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