Artist and CalArts alumna Allison Schulnik (Film/Video BFA 00) recently opened her studio to the online art magazine Beautiful/Decay, providing a glimpse into her world of sad hobo clowns and her painting and…
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‘Clam Bake’: Award-Winning Indie Filmmaker Creates Whimsical Animation App
By Nicholas Katzban/Special to 24700 Joanna Priestley, a Portland based animator, has brought her talent for eye-popping, two-dimensional wonder shows to a more interactive medium. Clam Bake is a new…
Continue reading »24700 Interview: Mikey Wells, Choral Director of The Silver Lake Chorus
The Silver Lake Chorus (TSLC), a Los Angeles-based vocal group, has been making waves since its formation in February 2010. In addition to performing live, the 25 members sang on the soundtrack…
Continue reading »Lost and Found: Local Landfill Partners with CalArts for Art Competition
[nggallery id=272] Landfills—with their refuse and discarded items—have often become a treasure trove for artists working with found objects. Earlier this summer, officials from the 592-acre Chiquita Canyon landfill, located…
Continue reading »Artist Fiona Connor Turns Hammer Museum Lobby into Printshop
Los Angeles’ first biennial, Made in LA 2012, which is full of CalArtians’ work, wraps up on Sept. 2. One of the exhibition’s hosts, the Hammer Museum, recently interviewed artist and…
Continue reading »Friday Night Filmmobile Series: A Salute To Sennett
The Echo Park Film Center (EPFC), an LA-based nonprofit media arts organization, continues its 2012 Filmmobile Summer Screening Series: A Salute To Sennett tonight at 8 pm in Echo Park….
Continue reading »SummerWorks Festival Features Tuan’s ‘Unstageable’ Play
SummerWorks, one of the largest juried theater festivals in Canada, features more than 40 shows during its 10-day run this month. One of the plays earning the most attention is…
Continue reading »Janet Sarbanes Interviews Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles about CalArts
East of Borneo, a contemporary online arts magazine produced by the CalArts School of Art, recently published a 2011 interview in which Janet Sarbanes, director of the MFA Writing Program…
Continue reading »CalArtians Among 2012 Princess Grace Award Winners
The Princess Grace Foundation recently announced its 2012 awards, and among the more than two dozen recipients are CalArts students Vincent Richards, a current MFA student in the School of…
Continue reading »‘Micropangaea’ Features Music, Animation and Liner Notes for the Wired World
by Nicholas Katzban/Special to 24700 The press release for Micropangaea states boldly, “the lack of focus on album artwork with digital downloads… has taken some of the joy out of…
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