Students in the 2025 MFA Creative Writing cohort celebrate the culmination of their studies with the annual capstone reading program, the Next Words Reading Series.

The afternoon program features a post-screening discussion between Klein and School of Art faculty Tom Leeser.

The experimental student-led production, created by the spring 2025 Opera Theater class, runs from Friday, April 25 to Sunday, April 27 in room C105 at CalArts.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation celebrated its centennial with the announcement of the 2025 class.

School of Art faculty Harry Gamboa Jr. made up one-fourth of the East LA-based Chicano art collective.

Alumni David Hammons, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Mark Bradford, Christopher Williams made the cut.

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