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.
Jemima Wyman Debuts New Work in COLA 2025 Exhibition
July 9, 2025
Artist and CalArts alum Jemima Wyman (Art MFA 07) debuts new work as part of COLA 2025, the 28th edition of the City of Los
CalArtians Awarded AICAD Teaching Fellowships for 2025–26
July 7, 2025
Two recent CalArts graduates have been selected for the 2025–26 Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) Teaching Fellowship, a program designed to
Noah Lemelson’s Steampunk Trilogy Returns with ‘The Lioness and the Rat Queen’
January 4, 2024
CalArts alum Noah Lemelson (Critical Studies MFA 19) returned with his latest work, The Lioness and the Rat Queen, the second novel in his steampunk-apocalyptic-noir
Watch Alison Brie in Somebody I Used to Know
February 10, 2023
Somebody I Used to Know, the latest film project from CalArts alum Alison Brie (Theater BFA 05), debuts on Prime Video on Friday, Feb. 10.
The Living Quilt Installation on View at Newhall Crossings
January 23, 2023
Longtime faculty in the School of Film/Video John Hawk and students from his Videographics class present a new take on the old-fashioned quilting bee in
Henry Selick’s Stop-motion Film Wendell & Wild Now Available on Netflix
October 30, 2022
CalArts alum Henry Selick (Film/Video MFA 77) stages a triumphant return to stop-motion animation with Wendell & Wild, a horror-comedy premiering on Netflix this Halloween
CalArts Film/Video Alums Selected for AICAD Post Grad Teaching Fellowships
September 27, 2022
Two recent graduates of CalArts’ MFA Experimental Animation Program, Moon (Yuezhu) Wang and Dairys Escoto De León, have been selected for the 2022-23 AICAD (Association
Louise Sandhaus Named Recipient of 2022 AIGA Medal
September 2, 2022
School of Art faculty Louise Sandhaus (Art BFA 93, MFA 94) has been named one of three 2022 AIGA Medalists, honored for contributions to the
Andrew Ahn Directs Summer Romantic Comedy Fire Island
June 15, 2022
For his latest project, filmmaker and CalArts alum Andrew Ahn (Film/Video MFA 2011) chose a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel Pride and
Gavin Mottram’s Video Exhibition Footering at Ireland’s Horse Gallery
April 12, 2022
Gavin Mottram’s (Film/Video MFA 17) video work is on view in the exhibition Footering at The Horse gallery in Dublin, Ireland, through April 14. The
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