Now it in its eighth iteration, the Dog Star Orchestra’s summer concert series expands beyond the Los Angeles County line. Beginning today (Aug. 28), the loose collective of CalArts’ musicians…
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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 »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 »‘Artists as Travellers’ Exhibit Part of a CalArts-Braunschweig Exchange
[nggallery id=270] Last month, artist Shirley Tse—co-director for the Program in Art at CalArts and recently named California Community Foundation fellow—led a group of 13 students from the School of…
Continue reading »Video from the Fringe: Aleshea Harris in ‘Oddlie’
Aleshea Harris, an MFA student in CalArts’ Writing for Performance program, is also a poet, singer-songwriter and actress. She’s currently in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe with her one-woman show…
Continue reading »CCF Visual Artist Grants Awarded to CalArts Faculty and Alumni
A video excerpt from Adam Overton’s 20 Meditations in 20 Minutes [SHOUTED!!] [nggallery id=269] Several CalArtians were recently named 2012 recipients of The California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship for Visual…
Continue reading »The Belle Brigade Plays Grand Performances
The Belle Brigade—brother-sister duo Barbara and Ethan Gruska, who attended CalArts—play a lunchtime performance on Friday (Aug. 3) at Grand Performances in Downtown Los Angeles. The two have music encoded…
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