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ArtCenter to Showcase “Unprecedented” Number of Exhibitions for Friday’s ArtNight Fall 2025

Published on Friday, October 10, 2025 | 5:33 am
 

[Images Courtesy ArtCenter College of Design]
ArtCenter College of Design will present exhibitions across three Pasadena campus locations during ArtNight Fall 2025, with what a college official described as an “unprecedented” number of offerings for the citywide event.

ArtNight, organized by the City of Pasadena’s Cultural Affairs Division, returns Friday, Oct. 10, from 6 to 10 p.m., with free admission and programming at more than 18 arts and cultural venues. Free shuttles will connect participating sites.

Julie Joyce, director of ArtCenter Galleries, said in a college statement that the institution’s participation has grown since the pandemic. “The amount of offerings we have on view at this particular ArtNight is unprecedented in our own history in the history of the college,” Joyce said.

Exhibitions will span Williamson Gallery, South Campus buildings (1111 and HMCT), and the 950 S. Raymond building. Programming includes a four-screen video installation by Los Angeles-based artists Patty Chang and David Kelley at Williamson Gallery.

Two ArtCenter Lifetime Achievement Award recipients will also be featured. Diana Thater, chair of the Art Department, presents a monitor piece on the main level of 950 S. Raymond. Photographer Matthew Rolston’s new series, “Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits,” will be shown in the upstairs galleries of the same building.

At the 1111 building’s Mullin Gallery, “Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community” is co-presented with the Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, which is undergoing renovations. Volunteer musicians affiliated with the museum will perform car-related songs during the evening.

Joyce said ArtCenter played a founding role in launching ArtNight. “Stephen Nowlin, the founding director of the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter, along with other former cultural leaders, including Jay Belloli from the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, were instrumental in actually inaugurating the first art night and eventually it was adopted by the city,” she said. “It was such a success and so we’re very proud of those early beginnings and ArtCenter’s role in helping to found this extremely successful community event.”

Joyce described ArtCenter Galleries as “a nexus between our surrounding communities and our campus communities.” She added, “I believe we are the most important space for contemporary art and design in our region. And not just Pasadena, but also arguably on the edge of East LA and San Gabriel Valley.”

She acknowledged that the galleries operate with limited staff across multiple locations and that art spaces can feel “very strange and intimidating for some people,” especially first-time visitors drawn in by ArtNight.

ArtCenter has used city mini-grants primarily for musical performances. “Not everyone is attuned to receiving information and cultured strictly on a visual level,” Joyce said, adding that performances make “the experiences more resonant for our audiences and more meaningful and more enjoyable.”

She said the exhibitions are “relevant to our cultural moment, to our cultural histories, to what is happening in our end design, what is on the forefront of art and design, what matters to people on an everyday level.”

“I just really appreciate the opportunity to introduce new forms of art design and new ideas to people,” Joyce said. “It’s presenting opportunities for cultural experiences to people. Even that basic gesture and experience can open up new pathways of conversation, of communication, of collaboration. It may be just the beginning, but at least it’s hopefully a spark to something light, some more creativity down the road.”

ArtCenter’s venues will be open Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. For more information, visit Pasadena’s ArtNight website.

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