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: 2022
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.
CalArtians Among 2022 NAACP Image Award Nominees
January 19, 2022
On Tuesday, Jan. 18, nominees for the 53rd NAACP Image Awards were announced, with CalArtians honored across categories. Established in 1968, the NAACP Image Awards celebrates the
Maggie Nelson Named 2022 Theorist in Residence
January 14, 2022
CalArts’ MA Aesthetics and Politics Program has named writer, poet, and scholar Maggie Nelson as its 2022 Theorist-in-Residence. The Theorist in Residence initiative invites theorists
The Herb Alpert School of Music Presents Futures of Music at REDCAT
January 14, 2022
On Saturday, Jan. 15, The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts invites viewers to reimagine musical performance and pedagogy in Futures of Music, a
CalArtians Win 2022 Creative Capital Awards
January 12, 2022
Ilana Coleman (Film/Video MFA 17), Deborah Goffe (Dance MFA 01), and Clara Philbrick (Art BFA 17) are among the recipients of the 2022 Creative Capital
Ron Cephas Jones Returns to Broadway in Clyde’s
January 11, 2022
After a seven-year absence punctuated by health issues, acclaimed actor and School of Theater faculty Ron Cephas Jones returns to the Broadway stage in Clyde’s,
Ambar Navarro Spotlights Latinx Indie Artists in New Doc Martens Film
January 11, 2022
Ambar Navarro (Film/Video BFA 15) directs “LATINX INDIE – LA,” a short documentary for British footwear and apparel brand Doc Martens’ filmmaker series. In the fifth episode
CalArts Mourns the Passing of Luciano Perna
January 5, 2022
Los Angeles-based visual artist Luciano Perna (Art BFA 84, MFA 86), lauded by the Los Angeles Times for his “quirky sculptures and varied photographs [that] play with
Pixar’s WALL-E Inducted Into National Film Registry
January 5, 2022
WALL-E, Pixar’s 2008 animated sci-fi robot romance, was one of the 25 titles inducted in December 2021 into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. The
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