September 2023

Dog Star Festival Closes with Final Weekend of Experimental Performances

June 24, 2025

The 21st annual Dog Star Festival comes to a close this weekend with four days of free performances at Automata,

CalArts Named One of ‘The Hollywood Reporter’s’ Top Animation Schools for 2025

June 17, 2025

CalArts was recently named in The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural Top Animation Schools list for 2025. With programs in Character Animation (BFA) and Experimental

CalArts Reef Residents to Host Open Studios June 7

June 6, 2025

On Saturday, June 7, the CalArts Reef Residency will host Open Studios, featuring work by the CalArts alumni from the

Producing the Producers’ Show Opening Sequence: Behind the Scenes with Tabs Wekerle

June 4, 2025

As the theater lights dimmed in the Academy Museum’s plush red David Geffen Theater on May 6, CalArtian attendees and

Chouinardians Featured this Summer at Pace Gallery LA

May 29, 2025

Works by alumni from the Institute’s predecessor, Chouinard Art Institute, are on view this summer at Pace Gallery in Los

Thomas Leeb Takes Guitar to New Heights with Acoustic Fingerstyle Bootcamp

May 22, 2025

No pick? No problem. Six-string devotees sojourn in the Austrian Alps for the Acoustic Fingerstyle Bootcamp, a guitar getaway founded

Cartographic illustration of large sea serpent approaching small land masses marked 'Hola de Brazil' and 'Las maydas'

CalArts Filmmakers Screen at Festivals Across North America and Europe

September 29, 2023

Alums and faculty from the School of Film/Video are screening their films at film festivals around the globe throughout the fall. More than 18 CalArtians’

Juan Pablo Contreras in suit and bowtie holding conducting baton, with text 'Juan Pablo Contreras - Lucha Libre' at the bottom

Juan Pablo Contreras Nominated for 2023 Latin Grammy Award

September 28, 2023

Composer and CalArts alum Juan Pablo Contreras’ (Music BFA 10) orchestral album Lucha Libre! has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best Classical

Joy Gregory Brings Joy to America’s Living Rooms Through Her Writing

September 27, 2023

One thread connects the vast variety of work Joy Gregory (Critical Studies MFA 99) writes—women fighting for their place in a hostile environment. Describing herself

New York Film Festival - Currents poster with dates Sept. 29-Oct. 15 and stills from three films on the left

CalArtian Films Selected for NYFF61 Currents

September 26, 2023

From Friday, Sept. 29 to Sunday, Oct. 15, films by CalArts alums and faculty screen at the 2023 New York Film Festival (NYFF) as part

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Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life to Screen at CIFF 2023

September 21, 2023

Filmmaker Dan Covert offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of enigmatic artist and CalArts alum Geoff McFetridge (Art MFA 95) with his

Two women crouch in front of a projected movie screen in a dark room.

In Memory: Bérénice Reynaud

September 18, 2023

This message from Film/Video Dean Abigail Severance and former Dean Steve Anker was sent to the CalArts community about the passing of Bérénice Reynaud, longtime

Woman in red medieval attire looks out of darkened window

Ambar Navarro Conjures Fantasy and Flair with New Weyes Blood Music Video

September 18, 2023

With the autumnal equinox right around the corner and Halloween on the horizon, CalArts alum Ambar Navarro (Film/Video BFA 15) directs a seasonal spooky spectacle

Dark collage landscape of man leaning on telephone pole and a building surrounded by trees.

Museum of the Moving Image Presents Janie Geiser Retrospective

September 15, 2023

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in Queens, New York, presents Unraveling Realities: The Films of Janie Geiser, a career retrospective of multimedia artist

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Work by Ashley Hunt Presented at Burren Annual Exhibition 2023

September 14, 2023

School of Art faculty Ashley Hunt offers a historical, literal, and figurative view of windows in Hostile Territory (Between inside and out), the subject of

A pink-red dilapidated car from Suzanne Lacy's Car Renovation art project in 1972, set along the then desolate 126 freeway.

REDCAT Opens New Exhibition Exploring Influential Feminist Art Program at CalArts

September 12, 2023

This week, REDCAT celebrates the opening of The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, a new exhibition that reflects on the pioneering and influential

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