The LA Stage Alliance’s Ovation Awards ceremony, which honored the best in LA’s local theater scene for the 2008-09 season, took place at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on…
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Art School Alum Richard Bruland’s Fades at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
[nggallery id=32] Los Angeles-based artist Richard Bruland (Art BFA 73) has several paintings–“New Fades”–currently on display at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif. The eight textured abstracts continue…
Continue reading »Remembering CalArts Trustee Roy E. Disney
About 1,000 people turned out for a memorial service Sunday for the late Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney and a founding CalArts Trustee, at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theater….
Continue reading »Grupo de Rua Takes Hip-Hop and Modern Dance to New Levels
Rising Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his company Grupo de Rua will perform at REDCAT next week as part of The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series. The Rio de Janeiro-based…
Continue reading »James Benning’s Digital Debut at REDCAT
For more than 30 years, experimental filmmaker and CalArts faculty member James Benning has captured moments and places through his signature long, singular takes on 16 mm film. However, on…
Continue reading »Music Faculty Wadada Leo Smith Featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’
2009 was a busy year for trumpeter, composer and CalArts faculty Wadada Leo Smith. In October, he released Spiritual Dimensions, a new two-disc set of live concert recordings, and there…
Continue reading »LA Arts Month 2010 Launches
Yesterday at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, CalArts President Steven D. Lavine, REDCAT Executive Director Mark Murphy and other arts leaders…
Continue reading »2009 National Film Registry Selections Include Two by CalArtians
On Dec. 30, 2009, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced its annual selection of 25 motion pictures that will be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures as part…
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