CalArts Ranks #2 in Art & Object’s 2026 List of Best Art Schools
November 11, 2025
CalArts was recently ranked second in the nation by Art & Object in its 2026 list of the Top 15
Author: Elizabeth Liang
CalArts Ranks #12 in TheWrap’s 2025 Top Film Schools
November 6, 2025
CalArts has once again been named one of the nation’s best film schools, ranking 12th on TheWrap‘s annual list of
‘Redrawing the Rancho:’ Artists Reclaim the Histories of the Rowland Mansion
November 4, 2025
CalArts alum Eva Aguila (Theater BFA 05) is one of four artists reimagining the layered histories of the historic Rowland
In Memoriam: CalArts Mourns the Passing of Alison Knowles
November 3, 2025
CalArts mourns the passing of one of our original faculty members and pioneering artist Alison Knowles, who died on Oct.
CalArts Alum James Waterman Sets ‘In Spring’ Album Release Show in LA
October 30, 2025
Alum and CAP Program Manager James Waterman (Music MFA 15) joins multi-instrumentalist Joel Reed Mankey to release In Spring—a Celtic-inspired album and live concert
Q&A with Alum Ishika Muchhal on her Stand-Up Comedy/Thesis Defense Presentation in NYC on Saturday
October 29, 2025
This Saturday, Nov. 1, CalArts alum Ishika Muchhal (Acting BFA 23) brings her comedy special, Please Don’t F*ck the Funny Out
CalArtians Win 2024 Creative Capital Awards
February 15, 2024
In January, Creative Capital announced the 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image, with CalArts alums Carmen Amengual (Art
Cassils First UK Solo Exhibition on View at HOME
December 1, 2021
Over the last 10 years, visual artist Cassils (Art-IM MFA 02) has been creating a body of work that contemplates the histories of LGBTQI+ violence,
Contingent Encounters, Forthcoming Book by CalArts Alum Dan DiPiero
November 19, 2021
Dan DiPiero (Music MFA 12, Critical Studies MA 13) is the author of the forthcoming book Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life, which
Carmina Escobar’s Bajo la Sombra del Sol has its World Premiere at REDCAT
November 16, 2021
On Thursday, Nov. 18, experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar (Music MFA 11), faculty in The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, premieres Bajo la Sombra
To Commit to Memory on View at Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee
November 11, 2021
To Commit to Memory, a solo exhibition by Lois Bielefeld (Art MFA 21) opened at the Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee, Wis.,
Yay Brigade Studio Redesigns Order of the Good Death Website
November 10, 2021
“Welcome to the future of death,” reads the landing page of The Order of the Good Death website, which has been effectively designed to be
Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures Book Release and Panel at LACA
November 2, 2021
On Nov. 3, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive celebrates the release of the book Mindless Pleasures by CalArts faculty Scott Benzel, and the digital release of
Jorge Gutierrez’s Fantasy Adventure Now Streaming on Netflix
October 25, 2021
Jorge Gutierrez’s (Film/Video MFA 00) grand vision to tell the story of a Mesoamerican warrior princess on a quest to save the world has been
Camille Benda Decodes the History of Dress and Resistance in New Book
October 22, 2021
In her new book, Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History, Camille Benda, head of costume design in CalArts School of Theater,
Song Cycle by Chris Kallmyer on View at Walt Disney Concert Hall
October 20, 2021
To celebrate the return of live music to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association commissioned the piece Song Cycle by CalArts
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