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The 2025 Next Words Reading Series Promises Poetry, Prose, and Mischief

May 1, 2025

Students in the 2025 MFA Creative Writing cohort celebrate the culmination of their studies with the annual capstone reading program,

From Scripted Spaces to Cinematic Illusions: Norman Klein Joins Back-to-Back LA Filmforum Programs

April 25, 2025

Critic, urban and media historian, and School of Critical Studies faculty Norman Klein joins the post-screening conversations of back-to-back Los

VoiceArts Students Envision Opera as Resistance in ‘DIVA EX MACHINA’

April 23, 2025

Not a tribute, but a takeover: Performers are empowered to reclaim their stories in DIVA EX MACHINA, an experimental student-led

CalArtians Named in 100th Class of Guggenheim Fellows

April 15, 2025

On Tuesday, April 15, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation celebrated its centennial with the announcement of the 2025 class

New Documentary Spotlights Groundbreaking Art Collective ASCO

April 11, 2025

Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger documents 15 years of ASCO, the groundbreaking East Los Angeles-based Chicano art collective, in his latest

CalArtians Named in ARTnews’ Ranking of the Century’s 100 Best Artworks

April 9, 2025

ARTnews captures the past 25 years of the art world at a glance in its recent listing of the 100

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REDCAT and MOCA Present Our Everyday Insurrections: Art & Feminisms in California

October 10, 2023

As part of its current exhibition The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, REDCAT partners with The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los

A group of performers from Al Sur de la Frontera stand outdoors in front of a small hill. Some carry instruments.

World Premiere of Al Sur de la Frontera at The Ford

October 5, 2023

Al Sur de la Frontera—a celebration of communitas from the southern diaspora of the continent—takes place at The Ford amphitheater in Los Angeles on Friday

An image of artist and composer Raven Chacon standing in front of a building looking straight at the camera.

CalArts Alum Raven Chacon Named 2023 MacArthur Fellow

October 4, 2023

Diné artist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon (Music MFA 04) was named one of the 20 2023 MacArthur Fellows on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Colloquially known as

REDCAT Presents Three Nights of Edgar Arceneaux’s Boney Manilli

October 3, 2023

Boney Manilli, a dark musical comedy written and directed by CalArts alum Edgar Arceneaux (Art MFA 01), runs Thursday, Oct. 5 through Saturday, Oct. 7

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The Whitney Presents Henry Taylor Career Retrospective

October 3, 2023

Following its original presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City presents

CalArts Mourns the Passing of Paul Vorwerk

October 2, 2023

The CalArts community remembers choral conductor and former Music faculty Paul Vorwerk (Music MFA 75), who recently passed away. Volker Straebel, current dean of The

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