Kubly Family Endowed Scholarship

The Kubly Family Endowed Scholarship was created in 2009 to support undergraduate ArtCenter students in any major who demonstrate both financial need and merit.

In the 1960s, Don and Sally Kubly built a home in Pasadena that was designed by Craig Ellwood Associates. When the College sought out a new campus to accommodate enrollment growth, the trustees purchased the land we now know as our Hillside Campus. They then commissioned Ellwood to design our iconic building, which officially opened in 1976 and was named a local historic landmark in 2005.

ArtCenter owes much to Sally and Don Kubly, not only for their role in making possible our splendid campus in the foothills of Pasadena but also for the establishment of the Kubly Family Endowed Scholarship, their endless service to ArtCenter, and their legacy of kindness and generosity.

Sally, who passed away in the spring of 2022, attended ArtCenter when the school was located on 7th Street in the Macarthur Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles and graduated from the Advertising program in 1948.

While at ArtCenter, Sally met and married fellow student Don Kubly and, together, the two would have an enormous impact on the College. Shortly after being married, the Kubly’s moved to Philadelphia where Sally worked for many years as the assistant art editor of Ladies Home Journal before she and Don started a family.

They returned to California in the early 1960s and Sally joined the Pasadena Art Alliance, a philanthropic organization that continues to support the College to this day. Don (who passed away in 2011) was president of ArtCenter from 1969–1985 and Sally served as art director for many ArtCenter publications between 1975 and 1981, including a catalog that won a New York Art Directors’ Award.

In their retirement, Don and Sally became watercolor enthusiasts, traveling whenever they could to take classes and workshops in locations such as Canada, Italy and Spain.

We are grateful to the Kubly’s for their decades of service to ArtCenter, and we are proud that their legacy of support and generosity will continue in perpetuity through the Kuby Family Endowed Scholarship.