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.
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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
Reimagining Carceral Spaces: An Interview with Ashley Hunt
October 28, 2025
Ashley Hunt, faculty in CalArts’ Photography and Media program, has spent more than two decades using film, writing, and collaborative
Animator James Baxter Gives Live Demo During Friday Night Talk
October 27, 2025
On Friday, Sept. 25, the Character Animation Program’s Friday Night Talks series welcomed legendary animator James Baxter to the Bijou
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
CalArtian Films Screening at Ann Arbor Film Festival
March 13, 2024
The Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, returns with its 62nd edition in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Running
The Documentary Climate Refugees Immortalized in Lunar Time Capsule
March 6, 2024
On Feb. 22, 2024, history was recorded when the Odysseus spacecraft landed on Earth’s moon. It marked the first time a private lander touched down
Shirley Tse and Jinseok Choi in Conversation with Steven Lam for Sculpture Magazine
March 5, 2024
Last month, Sculpture magazine published an article featuring artist and School of Art faculty Shirley Tse and collaborator Jinseok Choi (Art MFA 18). Conducted by
RETROaction: Reviving Artistic Legacies from 1993 at Hauser & Wirth
February 26, 2024
CalArts School of Art Faculty Emeritus Charles Gaines’ groundbreaking 1993 exhibition Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism is revisited in Hauser & Wirth’s
Jazz Legend Charlie Haden Inducted into CAJ Hall of Fame
February 14, 2024
The California Alliance for Jazz (CAJ) recently revealed this year’s inductees for its Hall of Fame, with the late legendary jazz double bassist, bandleader, and
Mercedes Dorame Captures Native Ecology in New Exhibition
February 8, 2024
School of Art faculty Mercedes Dorame captures the splendor of the natural world in Mercedes Dorame: Where Sky Touches Water, an exhibition of new and
CalArtians Premiering Films in 2024 Berlinale
February 7, 2024
The 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale, kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 15, featuring three films by CalArtians
A Season of Concerts with Anne LeBaron Kicks Off With UCLA Retrospective
February 6, 2024
Anne LeBaron, internationally acclaimed composer and harpist, 1996 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Music recipient, and former faculty in The Herb Alpert School
Swapan Chaudhuri Receives California Arts Council Award
February 2, 2024
The California Arts Council (CAC) announced the recipients of the Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) grant awards in December. Among the 35 selected artists is Swapan
CalArtians Direct and Star in Musical Comedy Tiny Little Town
February 1, 2024
Theatre Movement Bazaar presents the inaugural run of Tiny Little Town, a new musical comedy directed by CalArts School of Theater faculty Tina Kronis running
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