This summer, CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) went international—hosting students from Rio de Janeiro. Teenagers from Rio’s favelas joined with students from the city’s British School to attend CAP’s annual…
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REDCAT’s George Lugg Talks NOW Fest to KNBC
REDCAT’s Associate Director George Lugg talks to KNBC’s News Raw about the NOW Festival’s continuing “commitment to fostering new work,” and its support in the development of Los Angeles artists,…
Continue reading »On the Bleeding Edge: NOW Festival Opens Today at REDCAT
Now in its sixth year, the New Original Works (NOW) Festival opens tonight at REDCAT in L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. For the next three weeks, eight different Los Angeles-based…
Continue reading »STROPHE Event Everything Bends Explores Improvisation on Aug. 1
STROPHE, an interdisciplinary arts organization founded by CalArts classmates Laura Vena, Janice Lee and Joseph Milazzo (MFA 08), encourages artists to explore linguistics and language in their respective disciplines. Next…
Continue reading »CalArts Student on America’s Got Talent
Tonight CalArts student Charles Dorsey (Music 10) made his national television debut on the NBC show America’s Got Talent at 9 p.m. The young singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, taped his audition, but unfortunately…
Continue reading »REDCAT’s 2009 NOW Festival Begins Thursday
Sheetal Gandhi’s Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife) – Excerpts. REDCAT’s New Original Works (NOW) Festival 2009 launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists. The…
Continue reading »Performing Economies at Fellows of Contemporary Art
The Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles hosts the exhibit Performing Economies through July 26. Elana Mann (MFA 07) recently named a recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowships in…
Continue reading »20 Years of Jazz with Capitol/EMI
[nggallery id=2] Since 1990, students from CalArts‘ Herb Alpert School of Music have had the opportunity to create a CD of original jazz and eclectic compositions at the historic Capitol…
Continue reading »Welcome to 24700
Like life, art happens 24/7. And what better place to capture both than the blogosphere? And at CalArts? As a learning institution, part of our mission is to prepare students…
Continue reading »Calartians in Two Major NYC Exhibitions
Two recent New York exhibitions serve as bookends marking the history of CalArts’ impact on the art world—from the first wave of Calartians who went on to the make the…
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