It’s the middle weekend for REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival (NOW). For three weeks in each of the past seven summers, the REDCAT stage has become a performance lab where…
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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 »The Car Show: A Theater and Car Wash Mashup
[nggallery id=80] Combine experimental theater, a drive-in movie and a car wash–then add a few CalArtians into the mix for a mounting of The Car Show at a downtown LA…
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 »Catherine Opie Tackles High School Football in LACMA Photo Exhibit
[nggallery id=79] The exhibition Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape opened yesterday (July 25) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and showcases recent work by Opie, an internationally…
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 »Evolution of The Wild Beast: A Photo Essay
Last summer, we provided you a Glimpse of the Wild Beast, and talked about the origins of the Hodgetts + Fung-designed 3,200-square foot performance and rehearsal space that would allow…
Continue reading »New CalArts Course Cluster Explores Connections between Biology and Art
In the simplest of terms for a complex practice, bio-art incorporates organic matter into works of art. For example, Philip Ross built a teahouse out of fungus, and composer David…
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…
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