Last week, Filmmaker Magazine released its annual listing of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Among the notable emerging artists are collaborators and CalArts alumni Jason Tippet (Film/Video BFA 09)…
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REDCAT Festival Celebrates the NOW
[nggallery id=268] The New Original Works (NOW) Festival—REDCAT’s summer celebration of vital new works for the stage—began a three-week run last night in LA featuring artists that challenge traditions and…
Continue reading »Artists Sam Durant and Liza Lou in Conversation at the Fowler Museum
The exhibition Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women closes this week at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and in a culminating public program tonight (July 26), artists Liza…
Continue reading »Animation Block Party in Brooklyn this Weekend
The Deep Dark (trailer) from Laura Heit on Vimeo. [nggallery id=267] The ninth annual Animation Block Party (ABP)—the largest animation festival on the East Coast—runs this weekend (July 27-29) at…
Continue reading »‘L’idée Fixe’ at Steve Turner Contemporary through Aug. 4
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…
Continue reading »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…
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