CalArts Among Top 10 Fine Arts Graduate Schools
On March 28, US News & World Report released its latest rankings of the Best Fine Arts Graduate Schools in the Nation. Among the 20 schools named, CalArts placed ninth, tying…
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Archive for March 2016
CalArtians Among Winners at 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival
Several CalArts School of Film/Video filmmakers took home awards from the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF), held earlier this month (March 15-20) in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Stan Brakhage Film…
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Pee-wee Herman Back On Screen with Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
By Jamila Reddy, MFA 1 student in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, CalArts School of Theater alumnus Paul Reubens (Theater BFA 73) revives his iconic role as…
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Zane Thimmesch-Gill’s Hiding In Plain Sight Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award
On March 8, the finalists for the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards were announced. Hiding in Plain Sight, the debut novel by artist, writer and scholar Zane Thimmesch-Gill (Film/Video-Creative Writing MFA 08)…
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Sneak Peek at Daron Nefcy’s Disney XD Spot
Above: Daron Nefcy’s Disney XD spot. Disney XD continues to expand its original series roster in both live action and animation. To showcase its animation slate, the channel has been working…
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Maggie Nelson Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
On Thursday night (March 17) at the New School in New York City, Maggie Nelson, author and chair of CalArts’ Creative Writing Program, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism….
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EventApril 7 - 17, 2016
CNP’s New Play Shelter Takes On the Immigration Crisis
**Weather update 4/8/16: Shelter is an outdoor performance with bleacher seating. Please dress warmly for the cool evening and be prepared to walk through damp grass and climb bleacher seating. We recommend comfortable…
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Composer and Herb Alpert Award Winner Julia Wolfe at CalArts
Composer Julia Wolfe, the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winner for Music, was an artist-in-residence at CalArts from March 2-9, the same week her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, Anthracite Fields, had…
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John Brian King’s LA Photos Uncovered After 30 Years
Spurl Editions has released LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980-84, a photography book capturing a bygone era in Los Angeles through the lens of CalArts alumnus John Brian King (Art BFA…
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Peter Semla Croons His Way to Fame in Web Series boyband
Above: Trailer for ‘boyband.’ In boyband, a mockumentary web series set in Chicago, five teenagers in a garage band suddenly find themselves learning dance routines and coordinating their outfits when they…
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