Art Center College of Design Inauguration of Lorne M. Buchman on April 22, 2010.

Art Center College of Design summer 1999 graduation ceremony. The commencement speaker is Samina Quraeshi, Henry R. Luce Professor in Family and Community at the University of Miami.

Art Center College of Design summer 1999 graduation ceremony. The commencement speaker is Samina Quraeshi, Henry R. Luce Professor in Family and Community at the University of Miami.

Art Center College of Design summer 1999 graduation ceremony. The commencement speaker is Samina Quraeshi, Henry R. Luce Professor in Family and Community at the University of Miami.

Art Center College of Design summer 1999 graduation ceremony. The commencement speaker is Samina Quraeshi, Henry R. Luce Professor in Family and Community at the University of Miami.

Speeches for a Campaign kickoff. Kyhl Smeby, John Dreyfus, David Brown.

Campaign kick-off dinner at Art Center. David Brown speaking followed by general party shots.

Includes interviews with students and alumni and views of campus. Used as a recruitment tool by Admissions.

Includes interviews with students and alumni and views of campus. Used as a recruitment tool by Admissions.

Includes interviews with students and alumni and views of campus. Used as a recruitment tool by Admissions.

Includes interviews with students and alumni and views of campus. Used as a recruitment tool by Admissions. Directed by Wayne Coe.

David Brown Presidential Inauguration at Art Center College of Design on June 21st 1986.

The R. Thomas Schorer papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and cartoons from his time at Art Center as a faculty member and Trustee, 1980s-1990s. The correspondence, much of it photocopies, are letters and memos about Art Center from faculty, administrators, and the Board, including those documenting student unrest over rising tuition and costs. Of note are Virginia Legakes Adams's letters addressed to President David R. Brown and the Board giving her opinions on the state of the school.
Also included in this collection are political cartoons that have been photocopied and altered to comment on the Art Center administration and clippings from Los Angeles area publications about Schorer, Art Center, and its alumni. There are a few memorials for former Art Center faculty, as well as black and white photographs of Schorer and fellow Art Center faculty members Jim Jordan and Wally Bennett.

The Art Center (Europe) collection documents campus administration and student activities throughout the school’s ten year history. The bulk of the collection is correspondence and administrative files which document the creation, operation and closure of the school. The Accreditation files in Series 1 are the reports related to accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The Administrative Files in Series 2 also contain files on establishing a European campus. Series 3 includes general information about Admissions, including the course catalogs. The few files in the Alumni series list the school's graduates and track their employment. The remodeling and construction phase of the school is well documented in the Buildings/Facilities files in Series 5. The chronological files in Series 6 include correspondence, reports, memos, and clippings regarding classes, students, and recruiting. The files in Series 7 consist mainly of ephemera related to graduation ceremonies. Series 8 contains various materials printed by the school including brochures and letterhead. Public Relations materials in Series 9 document Art Center (Europe)’s media presence through the clippings and media summaries. The five Publications in Series 10 were published by Art Center (Europe) and contain news, profiles and updates on the school and its students. Series 11 houses 14 student-designed t-shirts that were made for graduations and conferences.

This collection is an amalgamation of materials created by staff and faculty at both Art Center and Art Center (Europe). The files from Art Center (Europe) were sent to Art Center after the closure of the school.

These Library records were created by Elizabeth Galloway, Library Director from 1979 to 2013. The collection includes memos, minutes, reports, and surveys, which document the activity of the Library Director as well as Art Center. The bulk of the material was collected by Galloway rather than generated by her, and documents Art Center's administration generally more than the administration of the Library specifically. The David R. Brown files include memos sent by Galloway to Brown, memos from Brown to Galloway and to the Vice Presidents, and memos to and from the Board of Trustees. Additionally, minutes of the Curriculum Committee, minutes of the Vice Presidents meetings, minutes and correspondence of the Library Advisory Board, and minutes and newsletters of the Student Government all document planning and changes in the way Art Center operated from the mid 1980s to 2001. A draft of the Leon Whiteson history of Art Center includes Galloway's notes and corrections. Various reports from departments within the school, including enrollment statistics (for international students, Art Center at Night, and Saturday High) as well as independent consultants' reports, add further insight.