Recent Experimental Animation alumnus Beomsik Shimbe Shim (Film/Video MFA 09) and his film, The Wonder Hospital, have been racking up a slew of festival awards this summer. Among them, two…
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Q and A with Choreographer and CalArts Faculty Member Colin Connor
Choreographer Colin Connor, a faculty member of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, will be taking a leave of absence this fall to work on three commissions:…
Continue reading »Seen @ CalArts: Audio Destructinators’ Carchestra
Even though school is still out for the summer, current students have access to some of CalArts’ facilities–like the parking lot. On Monday, a band of mostly Calartian composers and…
Continue reading »Breath of Fire Presents Digging Up the Dirt
The world premiere of Cherríe Moraga’s murderous play Digging Up the Dirt opened last week (July 30) at Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble in Santa Ana, Calif. Presented in…
Continue reading »Seoul Cartoon Festival Screens Early Works of CalArtian Animators
With Toy Story 3 still high on the box office charts, two of the film’s creators, John Lasseter (Film/Video BFA 79) and Andrew Stanton (Film/Video BFA 87), along with 17…
Continue reading »CalArtians’ Works Featured at an Art Festival on an Organic Farm in Austria
An organic farm, Schlossergütl, in the rolling hills just outside Andorf, Austria, is the pastoral setting for Spiel Festival 2010–a wide-ranging array of traditional and experimental art, dance and music…
Continue reading »Seen @ CalArts: CSSSA Visiting Artist Carmina Escobar
Now in its 24th summer, InnerSpark: the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) has taken over the CalArts campus. The summer school for high school students, which began…
Continue reading »40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit
Akosua Adoma Owusu (Art, Film/Video MFA 2008) has taken her thesis film Me Broni Ba (my white baby) around the world–to date, it’s been screened at nearly 40 domestic and…
Continue reading »Building a Classroom without Walls: Russian and CalArtian Theater Students Collaborate Virtually
This past May, acting students from CalArts School of Theater and the Moscow Art Theater School (MXAT) took online learning across continents. Students critiqued each other’s work via videoconference as…
Continue reading »Seventh Annual NOW Festival at REDCAT July 22-August 7
For three weeks starting this month, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles will host the seventh annual New Original Works Festival, which runs from July…
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