Amy Tofte’s ‘Contact Tracing’ Premieres at Awareness Film Festival
October 24, 2025
Writer and director Amy Tofte (Theater MFA 11) premieres her film Contact Tracing at the 16th Annual Awareness Film Festival
Year: 2021
CalArts MFA Student Ilse Castro Corona Directs ‘Life Is a Dream’ at Highways Performance Space
October 23, 2025
CalArts School of Theater MFA student Ilse Castro Corona directs Life Is a Dream (Sueños de Libertad), a contemporary ensemble-based
‘Unfolding Visions’ at REDCAT Showcases Film and Moving-Image Works by CalArts Faculty
October 23, 2025
Unfolding Visions, a curated screening at Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) on Oct. 27, showcases recent film, video, and
CalArtians Awarded 2025 Creative Research Grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
October 22, 2025
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the recipients of its 2025 Creative Research Grants, awarding
Electronic Music Pioneer, CalArts Professor Emeritus Barry Schrader Releases First New Album in More Than a Decade
October 21, 2025
Barry Schrader (Music MFA 71), electronic music pioneer and professor emeritus of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts,
John Warren Examines Nashville’s Past and Present in Experimental Film ‘Future Tense’
October 16, 2025
John Warren’s (Film/Video MFA 12) 16mm film Future Tense is featured in the Frist Art Museum’s exhibition Avenues to a Great City in Nashville.
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
CalArtians at 2021 Outfest LA Film Festival
August 12, 2021
Outfest LA Film Festival, the world’s foremost organization for promoting LGBTQ cinema, returns for its 39th edition after a nearly 18-month COVID hiatus. The 10-day
New Music: John Tejada and Ulrich Krieger Release Silversonic EP
August 12, 2021
John Tejada and Ulrich Krieger, faculty of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, released the EP Silversonic last month on Tejada’s own Palette
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