On Saturday, June 7, the CalArts Reef Residency will host Open Studios, featuring work by the CalArts alumni from the schools of Art, Film/Video, and Critical Studies who served as the space’s Spring 2025 residents.
Taking place at The Reef building and creative hub in downtown Los Angeles, the event will feature the work of artists Emiko Wilks (Film/Video MFA 24), Maisa Imamović (Critical Studies MA 24), Rowland Smith III (Critical Studies MFA 24), Toria Shi (Art NFA 24), Luna Izpisua Rodríguez (Art MFA 24), Xiao Zhang (Art MFA 24), and Alex Sherman (Film/Video MFA 24), as well as their various collaborators. The evening will also include works by Hu Di (Art MFA 24), film screenings from Mosmote Collective (Zaina Bseiso [Art MFA 20], Justin Jinsoo Kim [Film/Video MFA 23], Rajee Samarasinghe [Film/Video MFA 16], Xiao Zhang [Film/Video MFA 24], Kaiwen Ren [Film/Video MFA 24], and Advik Beni [Film/Video MFA 23] and a multiparticipant salon reading titled Invocation: A Ritual (Erica Min [Critical Studies MA 2025], Tamar Bresge [Critical Studies MFA 25], Abbi Page [Critical Studies MFA 25], Rosa Evangelina Beltrán [Music/Critical Studies MFA 22], and Saba Hakimzadeh-Abianeh [Critical Studies MFA 25]).
The CalArts Reef Residency offers a transformative opportunity for newly graduated artists to immerse themselves in creative collaboration and production, providing the space, resources, and community needed to bring ambitious projects to life in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles.
Divided into five-month terms (spring and fall), the postgraduate residency provides recent MA and MFA-holding CalArts postgraduates from each of CalArts’ Schools (Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theater) with a stipend and 24/7 access to art spaces to use toward developing and completing projects after graduation.
