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
Author: Christine N. Ziemba
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.
Brandon Stirling Baker Earns Tony Nomination
April 30, 2024
The Tony Award nominations, which honor excellence in live Broadway theater, were announced on April 30 with lighting designer and CalArts alum Brandon Stirling Baker
Two Film/Video Faculty Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
April 11, 2024
On Thursday, April 11, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows. Among the “distinguished list of culture-creators working across 52
Charles Gaines’ Manifestos 4: The Dred and Harriet Scott Decision Live at REDCAT
April 9, 2024
Art Faculty Emeritus Charles Gaines is a conceptual artist who employs formulas, structures, and grids to create paintings, photographs, drawings, videos, and other media. In
Harry Gamboa Jr.’s Street Engagements Class at Gagosian Gallery
March 29, 2024
Just before spring break, longtime School of Art faculty Harry Gamboa Jr. and his Street Engagements class left the suburban confines of the 91355 to
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Team at CalArts for Panel and Q&A
March 4, 2024
In the middle of Hollywood’s busy awards season, a team from the critically acclaimed and box office hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse stopped at CalArts’
CalArtians Selected for the Venice Biennale
February 9, 2024
Last week, the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) announced the 331 artists or collectives from around the world that will
In Memoriam: N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024)
January 29, 2024
CalArts is saddened to hear of the passing of the American poet, novelist, editor, and educator N. Scott Momaday. Momaday received an honorary doctorate from
2024 Theorist in Residence Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Public Programs at CalArts and REDCAT
January 16, 2024
Artist and writer Denise Ferreira da Silva, the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York
Sundance Festival Announces 2024 Short Film Program
December 14, 2023
Update: On Jan. 23, the Sundance Film Festival announced that the Short Film Jury Award in Animation was awarded to CalArts alum Phoebe Jane Hart
Sundance 2024 Announces Feature Film Program
December 11, 2023
Last week, the Sundance Institute announced the 91 projects selected for the feature films, episodic, and new frontier programs for the 40th edition of its
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