School of Art

Stephanie Cheng Smith is a composer, performer and programmer who creates interactive pieces, installations, improvisations and through-composed works. She often uses electronics, violin and light, and her latest explorations with motor arrays have been featured in the 2016 issue... Continue reading »

Stuart Smith is a graphic designer living and working in Los Angeles. He is currently the Director of Creative Services at CalArts and has been Visiting Faculty in the School of Art since 2008. Stuart previously held positions with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J.... Continue reading »

Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world... Continue reading »

  Through intensive inquiry, Shelley Stepp explores the meaning of how one responds to nature and design. As a graphic designer, she is interested in the contemporary interpretation of the landscape and the collaborative process between graphic designer and landscape designer.... Continue reading »

Gail Swanlund is a graphic designer and educator. Her creative work has been exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CAM Raleigh, Pomona College, the Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, Czech Republic, and elsewhere. Her work has... Continue reading »

Los Angeles-based artist Shirley Tse (b.1968) works in sculpture, installation, photography, and text. She deconstructs our world of synthetic objects that carry paradoxical meanings and constructs different models in which differences might come together. Various strategies of visualising... Continue reading »