Diana Thater | Pasadena Now
ArtCenter College of Design will present its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Diana Thater on Saturday, September 27 in Pasadena, honoring a career defined by vision and resilience.
Thater, chair of ArtCenter’s Art Department since 2024 and a faculty member since 1995, experienced profound upheaval when the Eaton Fire devastated her home, studio, and three decades of creative work in Altadena last January.
“I have no concept of home. I sort of lost it, and I haven’t refound it yet. I don’t know where I’m going to be living. I don’t know. I don’t know a lot of things. So everything’s kind of up in the air for me right now,” Thater said, reflecting on the loss. “We lost everything, including our studio and all of our work.”