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Experience the excitement of New York Fashion Week with the best student fashion designs displayed on the Spring 2011 runway. Academy of Art University is the only fashion school to show at the Lincoln Center for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week each season, with students debuting their collections in the school’s Graduation Fashion Show in the spring and fall. The second half of the show focuses on womenswear collections that feature a bright mix of neutrals and metallic embellishments that are perfect for spring. To learn more about Academy of Art University’s fashion design school, visit http://www.academyart.edu/fashion-school/index.html

Placed in the Old South, this gritty, intensely moving short film focuses on the combustible inequality between blacks and whites. Winner of the Epidemic Film Festival 2007, this film was directed by Alexandra Overton as a final year student in Academy of Art’s School of Motion Picture and Television. To learn more about Academy of Art University's film school, visit http://www.academyart.edu/film-school/index.html

Watch a thrilling battle between two mutants in this 3D animation film produced by students in Academy of Art’s School of Animation. In this futuristic dystopia, a scientist resorts to injecting himself with an experimental drug to fight off an assassination attempt from a brutal mutant. To learn more about Academy of Art University’s animation school, visit http://www.academyart.edu/animation-school/index.html

Watch as ordinary plants transform into animated beings in this CGI animation short film. Academy of Art’s animation grad student Vita Hsieh renders CGI animation onto live-action plates of plants to achieve realistic and psychedelic flora. To learn more about Academy of Art University’s animation school, visit http://www.academyart.edu/animation-school/index.html

On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, Academy of Art University, in cooperation with many diverse local community groups, organized a Community Peaceful Gathering to show our support for Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who is an Academy of Art alumni. Both American journalists were jailed and sentenced to 12 years in labor prison after being convicted of illegally crossing the border into North Korea. The journalists had been working on a story on human trafficking from the Chinese side of the border for Current TV, headquartered in San Francisco. Both were pardoned by the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il on August 4 and safely returned to the U.S. To learn more about Academy of Art University’s film school, visit http://www.academyart.edu/film-school/index.html