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.
Lee Witz Wins at 2021 FINE CUT Festival
October 8, 2021
CalArtian Lee Witz (Film/Video BFA 21) has been named the winner of the Animation Award at the 22nd annual FINE CUT Festival of Films for
Douglas Kearney’s Sho Named Finalist for 2021 National Book Award
October 5, 2021
On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the National Book Foundation announced the 25 finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards. Among this year’s selections is Sho (Wave
Material-i-ty: Gosia Wojas Releases New Volume Book
October 1, 2021
CalArtian Gosia Wojas (Art BFA 19) announces her latest publication Material-i-ty, a volume book featuring essays from artists Cara Benedetto and Farah Karapetian and writer
Don Mee Choi Selected as 2021 MacArthur Fellow
September 28, 2021
Poet and translator Don Mee Choi (Art BFA 84, MFA 86) has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, joining the distinguished ranks of hundreds of
Justin Townsend Wins 2021 Tony Award
September 27, 2021
On Sunday (Sept. 26), theater luminaries recognized achievements in Broadway at the 74th Tony Awards at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, after
The Wende Presents Sichong Xie’s Memory Structure, Scaffold Series
September 24, 2021
The Wende Museum in Culver City, Calif., presents CalArtian Sichong Xie’s (Art MFA 17) latest installation Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, running now until March 20,
Aphton Corbin Directs Pixar SparkShort ‘Twenty Something’
September 20, 2021
Pixar’s SparkShort series continues with storyboard artist Aphton Corbin‘s (Film/Video BFA 16) “Twenty Something,” the ninth short selected since the program’s launch in 2019. Corbin
CalArtians Take Home 2021 Creative Arts Emmys
September 13, 2021
As the three ceremonies for the 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards drew to a close over the weekend, CalArtians Genndy Tartakovsky (Film/Video 92), Hal Hickel
CalArtians at Fourth Annual Other Places Art Fair
September 10, 2021
This weekend, the historic Battery Leary-Merriam landmark in Los Angeles will be taken over by the CalArtian-founded Other Places art fair (OPaf) 2021, a two-day
Briana Venskus Cast in Upcoming Dark LGBTQ+ Comedy Unconventional
September 8, 2021
Actor Briana Venskus (Theater BFA 09) has joined the main cast of Unconventional, the upcoming independently produced dark LGBTQ+ comedy series by EastSiders creator Kit
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