OTIS is a leader among institutions of higher learning specializing in the education of artists and designers. Cited in America’s creative capitol, Los Angeles, OTIS is also the city’s first independent professional art school. In 1918, General Harrison Gray Otis, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, bequeathed his home for "the advancement of the arts." Since then OTIS has trained artists and designers who are in the vanguard of American cultural and entrepreneurial life. From companies such as Mattel and Pixar to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, OTIS graduates have made an individual, positive, and lasting mark on the world. The five-acre main campus is now on L.A.’s Westside near the beach and LAX. OTIS' enduring legacy is preparing diverse students of art and design to enhance the world through their creativity, their skill, and their vision.