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
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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
CalArtian Works on Display in ‘Against Monoculture’ at Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
October 29, 2024
Works by CalArtians Beatriz Cortez (Art MFA 15), Emily Marchand (Art MFA 17), and School of Art faculty gloria galvez (Art MFA 16) are now
Kaucylia Brooke and The Boy Mechanic
October 28, 2024
San Francisco is a city synonymous with diversity, counterculture, and the gay rights movement. But as artist and Photo and Media faculty Kaucylia Brooke learned,
A Conversation with Muriel Leung on ‘How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster’
October 18, 2024
Award-winning poet, writer, and School of Critical Studies faculty Muriel Leung is set to release her highly anticipated novel-in-stories How to Fall in Love in
Two New Books by Artist and CalArts Faculty Harry Gamboa Jr.
October 9, 2024
It’s been a busy and prolific few months for multidisciplinary artist, essayist, and longtime CalArts Photo and Media faculty Harry Gamboa Jr. Just after graduation
CalArtians Featured in PST ART Exhibitions Across Southern California
September 18, 2024
With more than 800 artists participating in more than 70 exhibitions, PST ART launched this week across the Southern California region. A Getty initiative (formerly
Gabrielle Civil Reads from ‘In & Out of Place’ this Weekend
September 18, 2024
This week Texas Review Press releases In & Out of Place, the latest performance memoir by Black feminist performance artist, poet, and Creative Writing faculty
Thomas Lawson Among the 2024 Rabkin Prize Winners
September 6, 2024
Thomas Lawson, artist, writer, magazine editor, and long-term faculty in the School of Art at CalArts has won a 2024 Rabkin Prize with its unrestricted
Krannert Art Museum Presents Millie Wilson Retrospective
August 25, 2024
The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, a retrospective celebrating the work of renowned artist and CalArts School of Art faculty emeritus Millie Wilson, opens on Saturday,
CalArts Alums Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima Direct Netflix’s ‘Ultraman: Rising’
August 1, 2024
Writer and director Shannon Tindle (Film/Video BFA 99) and co-director John Aoshima (Film/Video BFA 00) have brought their creative prowess to Netflix’s animated feature, Ultraman:
The Dog Star Orchestra’s 2024 Festival Opens
June 21, 2024
The Dog Star Orchestra, an experimental music ensemble and annual festival, opens its 2024 summer festival—its 20th edition—with a concert titled Converse at Automata in
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