CalArts Ranks #12 in TheWrap’s 2025 Top Film Schools
November 6, 2025
CalArts has once again been named one of the nation’s best film schools, ranking 12th on TheWrap‘s annual list of
Month: August 2021
‘Redrawing the Rancho:’ Artists Reclaim the Histories of the Rowland Mansion
November 4, 2025
CalArts alum Eva Aguila (Theater BFA 05) is one of four artists reimagining the layered histories of the historic Rowland
In Memoriam: CalArts Mourns the Passing of Alison Knowles
November 3, 2025
CalArts mourns the passing of one of our original faculty members and pioneering artist Alison Knowles, who died on Oct.
CalArts Alum James Waterman Sets ‘In Spring’ Album Release Show in LA
October 30, 2025
Alum and CAP Program Manager James Waterman (Music MFA 15) joins multi-instrumentalist Joel Reed Mankey to release In Spring—a Celtic-inspired album and live concert
Q&A with Alum Ishika Muchhal on her Stand-Up Comedy/Thesis Defense Presentation in NYC on Saturday
October 29, 2025
This Saturday, Nov. 1, CalArts alum Ishika Muchhal (Acting BFA 23) brings her comedy special, Please Don’t F*ck the Funny Out
Reimagining Carceral Spaces: An Interview with Ashley Hunt
October 28, 2025
Ashley Hunt, faculty in CalArts’ Photography and Media program, has spent more than two decades using film, writing, and collaborative
Alonzo King LINES Ballet to Perform Live in Southern California
August 31, 2021
For one night only, on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 7:30 pm, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet will perform live at the Segerstrom Center for the
CalArtians Among 73rd Juried Emmy Award Winners
August 30, 2021
On Wednesday, Aug. 27, the Television Academy announced the recipients of the juried categories for the 73rd Emmy Awards: Animation, Costume Design, Interactive Programming, and
re:connections: Two New Publications from Art MFA Exhibition
August 26, 2021
As the CalArts 2021 MFA postgraduate project re:connections wraps the exhibition segment at Tin Flats in Los Angeles, the cohort releases two new publications: an
New Restoration of Nina Menkes’ The Bloody Child to Screen at 2021 New York Film Festival
August 25, 2021
A new restoration of The Bloody Child (1996) by independent filmmaker and CalArts faculty Nina Menkes has its worldwide premiere at the 2021 New York
CalArts Mourns the Passing of Interdisciplinary Artist Kaari Upson
August 24, 2021
Sculptor, installation artist, and CalArts alumna Kaari Upson (Art BFA 04, MFA 07), heralded by The New York Times as “one of the most significant
Anna Biller’s Cult Retro Film Viva Gets Blu-ray Release
August 23, 2021
On Tuesday, Aug. 24, Kino Lorber releases a Blu-ray edition of Anna Biller’s (Film/Video MFA 93) first feature film Viva (2007), which she wrote, directed,
Mark Bradford Exhibition Inaugurates Hauser & Wirth Menorca
August 20, 2021
Mark Bradford’s (Art BFA 95, MFA 97) exhibition Masses and Movements, the artist’s first exhibition in Spain, inaugurates contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth’s newest
Campus Vernacular You Should Know: The CalArts Dictionary 2021-22
August 19, 2021
It’s back-to-school season and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have students return to campus! New Student Orientation takes place on campus from Sept. 5-11,
Going Back in Time to Support Future Students
August 18, 2021
In 2019, inspired by a visit to CalArts after many years, alumnus Steve Weir unearthed the photos he had taken of the campus when it
CalArtians Perform in The Tempest at Griffith Park Shakespeare Festival
August 16, 2021
The Independent Shakespeare Company of Los Angeles (ISCLA) presents free performances of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, running now until Sunday, Sept. 5 as part of
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