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
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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.
CalArts School of Theater Presents A Four-Performance Weekend of The Great Gatsby
April 28, 2022
The CalArts School of Theater presents the stage play The Great Gatsby, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name. Performances are
Respira: Charlie James Gallery Presents Shizu Saldamando Solo Show
April 25, 2022
Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles features Shizu Saldamando (Art MFA 05)’s solo exhibition Respira through May 28. Consisting of eight portraits made during the
Evan Cleaver’s Kody Switch Selected For Kansas City FilmFest International
April 21, 2022
Actor, writer, and producer Evan Cleaver (Theater MFA 09) was selected by the Kansas City (Missouri) FilmFest International to showcase his short film Kody Switch.
Coachella Festival Features Art Installation by Cristopher Cichocki
April 15, 2022
In addition to music headliners Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Swedish House Mafia, and The Weeknd, the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA, also
Rachel Epperly’s Mid-Residency Performance: Learning to See
April 6, 2022
In March, performer-composer MFA Rachel Epperly presented her mid-residency recital Learning to See at CalArts’ The Wild Beast. The recital featured music and poetry she
Welcome to Los Suelos: CalArtians Create Immersive Fictional Anthology
March 31, 2022
Josh Duke’s journey to Los Suelos started in fall 2020 with a question: What if The Twilight Zone were a place? Two years on, that
Robert Perez Wins ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award
March 25, 2022
On March 14, the ASCAP Foundation announced its list of 21 jazz composers who won the 2022 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Robert
CalArts in The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 10 for US Costume Design
March 22, 2022
On March 12, The Hollywood Reporter (THR) published its 2022 list for the “Top 10 Costume Design Schools in the US,” with CalArts among the
CalArts Student Wins First Prize at One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest
March 21, 2022
Jingqi Zhang, a BFA 3 Character Animation student in the CalArts School of Film/Video, recently won a $1,000 first prize for her five-minute animated film
Adobe Punk: CalArtian-Founded About…Productions Premieres True Story-Inspired Theaterwork
March 16, 2022
From Saturday, March 19 to Sunday, April 3, About…Productions performs their new historical fiction theaterwork Adobe Punk at Plaza de la Raza’s Margo Albert Theater
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