The small group exhibition L’idée Fixe opened recently at Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles, featuring a single work by artists and CalArts alumni Sayre Gomez (Art MFA 08) and Joe…
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Pomplamoose’s Nataly Dawn Covers CalArts Alumna’s ‘I Love to be with You’
Singer-songwriter Liz Fanora Jones, 2010 BFA graduate from The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has a fan in Nataly Dawn—singer of the indie pop duo Pomplamoose. Dawn, along…
Continue reading »LA Art Happenings This Weekend
We’ve gotten a few notices about a number of CalArtian-involved art openings, screenings and other events happening in the Los Angeles area this weekend. Here’s a quick rundown: French filmmaker…
Continue reading »CalArtians at ComicCon 2012
Comic-Con, the largest comic book and pop culture convention in the world, takes over the San Diego Convention Center through Sunday, July 15. While we’re sure that a number of…
Continue reading »Slumgum Performances at LACMA and the Blue Whale this Week
Slumgum, an all-CalArts alumni jazz quartet, presents a pair of CD release concerts this weekend in LA—at LACMA on Friday and the Blue Whale in LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood on…
Continue reading »Ashley Hunt Performance at the Hammer
Ashley Hunt, co-director of CalArts Program in Photography and Media, is an artist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements and facilitate public discourse. As one of…
Continue reading »CalArtian Composer’s Scarf Controllers Featured in Wired, The Huffington Post
This spring, CalArts’ composer and Music Technology student Jeff Bryant (Music MFA 13) controlled the performance of a player piano wirelessly through a set of specially knitted scarves. Created as a…
Continue reading »CalArts Animation Summer Film Festival Lineup
JiSoo Kim’s ‘Thembi’s Diary’ screened at Animafest 2012 last month. In addition to a CalArts retrospective at the Annecy Film Festival and a selection in the Los Angeles Film Festival, many…
Continue reading »CalArtians Bring ‘Timboctou’ to Mexico
In March, we posted about the world premiere of award-winning Mexican playwright Alejandro Ricaño’s Timboctou at REDCAT. The bilingual collaboration between CalArtian and Mexican artists, will now be remounted for a run in Guadalajara,…
Continue reading »CalArts Hosts East China Normal University Animators For Stop-Motion Summer Intensive
[nggallery id=265] East China Normal University (ECNU), a Shanghai-based institution with a student body of more than 21,000 students, recently established a three-year partnership with CalArts’ School of Film/Video, which provides faculty and…
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