by Michael Rogers Actor Jack Black threatened to perform a postmodern interpretive dance; film and TV star Tim Allen assumed his Buzz Lightyear persona from Toy Story; and more than…
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Alexander Mackendrick: Remembering a Pioneering Director and Founding Dean of CalArts School of Film/Video
- by Michael Rogers/Special to 24700 CalArts alumni, faculty, current students and film history buffs filled the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) on the evening of Feb. 6 for…
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 »Remembering Architect John Kelsey, 1925-2012
CalArts mourns the loss of artist and architect John Kelsey, who, with his partner Thornton Ladd, left an indelible mark on the Southern California cityscape. The Pasadena-based Ladd & Kelsey…
Continue reading »Janet Sarbanes Interviews Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles about CalArts
East of Borneo, a contemporary online arts magazine produced by the CalArts School of Art, recently published a 2011 interview in which Janet Sarbanes, director of the MFA Writing Program…
Continue reading »Video: An Animated History of Machines
The animated short above, Machine History, was made at CalArts in 1983 by Doug Miller (Film/Video MFA 82) in a class taught by Jules Engel, the late founding director of the Experimental Animation Program….
Continue reading »School of Art Dean Tom Lawson Speaks at Jack Goldstein Exhibition
Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is currently hosting the exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,000 through Sept. 9. It’s the first American retrospective of the work of the late artist Jack…
Continue reading »Smithsonian’s Reel Culture Blog: ‘Five Women Animators that Shook Up the Industry’
Brave, the latest animated offering from Disney/Pixar, features a female lead character for the first time in the studio’s history. In light of all the press focusing on the traditional…
Continue reading »Video: A Brief History of John Baldessari
Last week, LACMA’s Unframed blog posted this short film about artist, Chouinard alum (59) and former CalArts teacher John Baldessari. Narrated by musician Tom Waits, the film was originally screened…
Continue reading »Disney Honors Chouinard Alumna Alice Davis with Window on Main Street, U.S.A.
Last week, the Walt Disney Company announced that Walt Disney Imagineering costume designer and Chouinard Institute alumna Alice Davis will receive one of the company’s highest honors—her own window on Main Street,…
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