The West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) series, co-presented by the city of West Hollywood and CalArts’ School of Critical Studies’ Aesthetics and Politics Program, continues its Spring 2013 season tonight…
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CalArts Alums Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Earn Oscars for ‘Brave’
[nggallery id=345] The 85th Annual Academy Awards were handed out in Hollywood last night, with CalArts alumni Mark Andrews (Film/Video BFA 93) and Brenda Chapman (Film/Video BFA 87) sharing the honors…
Continue reading »Video: Theater Alum Alison Brie Showcases Freestyle Rap Skills on Fallon
CalArts alum Alison Brie (Theater BFA 05) appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Monday (Feb. 18) to talk about the just-launched fourth season of the NBC comedy Community,…
Continue reading »Actor and Advocate Geena Davis Talks Gender Equality in Media at CalArts
Women are still so woefully underrepresented in films and television shows that—at the current rate—it would take nearly 700 years(!) to achieve parity. That was just one of the jaw-dropping…
Continue reading »FoCA Salon Welcomes Directors Mark Andrews and Brad Bird
[nggallery id=339] Directors and CalArts alumni Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and Mark Andrews (Brave) were the featured speakers at the most recent FoCA (Friends of CalArts) salon, held…
Continue reading »Jazz Faculty Charlie Haden Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys
During this past weekend’s Grammy festivities, Charlie Haden—bassist and longtime faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts—was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording…
Continue reading »2013 Annie Awards: CalArts Alumni Earn Honors in Animation
On Feb. 2, CalArts’ alumnus Rich Moore won top honors at the 40th Annual Annie Awards for Directing an Animated Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph. The film, from Walt Disney…
Continue reading »CalArtian Projects at LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Book Fair runs this weekend (Feb. 1-3) at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. A companion to the New York version held every fall, organizers are expecting representatives…
Continue reading »CalArts, REDCAT Celebrate Alexander Mackendrick’s Centennial
A clip from the 1986 documentary, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, directed by Dermot McQuarrie for Scottish television. Alexander Mackendrick, director of The Man in the White Suit (1951)…
Continue reading »MFA Writer’s Story on Bud Light Lime Noticed by ‘The Atlantic’
Tom Dibblee, an MFA 2 student in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program and editor of Trop Magazine, recently wrote a review of William Knoedelseder’s book Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall…
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