Directors and CalArts alumni Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and Mark Andrews (Brave) were the featured speakers at the most recent FoCA (Friends of CalArts) salon, held on Jan….
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Jazz Faculty Charlie Haden Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys
During this past weekend’s Grammy festivities, Charlie Haden—bassist and longtime faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts—was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording…
Continue reading »2013 Annie Awards: CalArts Alumni Earn Honors in Animation
On Feb. 2, CalArts’ alumnus Rich Moore won top honors at the 40th Annual Annie Awards for Directing an Animated Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph. The film, from Walt Disney…
Continue reading »CalArtian Projects at LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Book Fair runs this weekend (Feb. 1-3) at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. A companion to the New York version held every fall, organizers are expecting representatives…
Continue reading »CalArts, REDCAT Celebrate Alexander Mackendrick’s Centennial
A clip from the 1986 documentary, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, directed by Dermot McQuarrie for Scottish television. Alexander Mackendrick, director of The Man in the White Suit (1951)…
Continue reading »MFA Writer’s Story on Bud Light Lime Noticed by ‘The Atlantic’
Tom Dibblee, an MFA 2 student in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program and editor of Trop Magazine, recently wrote a review of William Knoedelseder’s book Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall…
Continue reading »Structuring Strategies Presents CalArts Alumnus David Fenster
Tonight (Jan. 29) at 7 pm, the CalArts Structuring Strategies class and screening series features the works of filmmaker and CalArts’ alumnus David Fenster (Film/Video MFA 04). Fenster screens the…
Continue reading »Tony Oursler on David Bowie’s ‘Where are We Now?’ Video
Rock legend David Bowie surprised the music world by releasing his first new song in 10 years, “Where are We Now?” on his 66th birthday without much fanfare. He dropped…
Continue reading »CalArts’ January Institute Holds Motion Graphics Screening Tonight
For the past three weeks, 30 students from Hongik and Kookmin universities in Seoul, South Korea, have been studying Design and Techniques of Motion Graphics during CalArts’ January Institute, a…
Continue reading »Roger Guenveur Smith Presents One-Man ‘Rodney King’ Production at CalArts
Tomorrow (Jan. 22) for one night only, celebrated solo performer and former CalArts School of Theater faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith returns to CalArts to present a free performance of…
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