[nggallery id=13] Color is the primary focus of photographer-artist Robert Glenn Ketchum (Art MFA 74) His most recent imagery, exhibitions, lectures and writings on the “Evolving Perspective of Nature” address…
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Going Bananas with the Fallen Fruit Collective
Fallen Fruit, a Los Angeles-based activist art project co-founded by CalArts faculty Matias Viegener and alum David Burns (Art BFA 93) with photographer and videographer Austin Young, presents a lecture…
Continue reading »Rick and Steve’s CalArts Beginnings
Q. Allan Brocka’s (Film/Video MFA 01) stop-motion animated sitcom Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is back on U.K. channel E4 for its second season….
Continue reading »A CalArts Critical Studies Grad Constructs Stories on Top of Ruins
Cheryl Klein’s (Critical Studies MFA 02) latest novel Lilac Mines takes place in a small, one-time ghost town in Northern California. When the main character first arrives, she’s skeptical about…
Continue reading »Alison Knowles, James Tenney and the House of Dust at CalArts
In the first few years of its existence CalArts’ faculty included some of the key figures from the Fluxus and happenings circles, including Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins,…
Continue reading »Documentary on Jazz Great, CalArts Faculty Charlie Haden Making Festival Rounds
There’s always an air of mystery surrounding the program for the Telluride Film Festival. Organizers don’t reveal what’s on the program until visitors reach the mountain. And filmmakers are sworn…
Continue reading »A Taste of CalArts Animation
This animated short film by student David Ochs (Film/Video BFA 12) won the Peer’s Pick award at the CalArts Character Animation Producer’s Show 2009. It’s a retelling of the Brothers…
Continue reading »Minimalist Music Primer: CalArts Alum Presents “Phasing and Form” at International Conference
The Second International Conference on Minimalist Music is taking place now through Sunday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Presenting a paper on “Phasing and Form” is composer Ryan Tanaka…
Continue reading »CalArts’ Alumni Installation: A Fleeting Glimpse into Life’s ‘Ups and Downs’
The Ups & Downs, a year-long art series, comes to an end this weekend at workspace in Los Angeles and features Liz Glynn’s (Art MFA 2008) performance-piece 65 | 77…
Continue reading »Annette Bening, CalArtians Bring New Life to Medea
The woman scorned is a leitmotif in literature—and later this month Annette Bening takes to the stage to star as the titular figure at the heart of Euripides’ Greek tragedy….
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