LA-based performance artist Kristina Wong makes her Edinburgh (Scotland) Festival Fringe debut later this summer with her show Going Green the Wong Way. Produced by CalArts Festival Theater, the madcap show…
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CalArtians among Finalists for $100,000 Mohn Prize
This morning (June 28), the Hammer Museum announced the five finalists up for the $100,000 Mohn Prize, selected from the roster of 60 emerging or under-recognized Southern California artists featured…
Continue reading »Robert Cucuzza’s Transatlantic Summer
GATZ Trailer – Elevator Repair Service from ERS Theater on Vimeo. Pop quiz: What does the Elevator Repair Service’s production of Gatz—currently playing in London’s West End—have in common with Cattywampus, which…
Continue reading »LA Unified: CalArts Grads Organize Art Symposium in LA
Michael Ray-Von (Art BFA 12) and fellow CalArts alum Albert Samreth (Art BFA 12) have organized LA Unified, a week-long symposium that explores the concepts and issues of art school…
Continue reading »CalArts Alumni, Faculty Make Art at Mount Wilson Observatory this Weekend
Solar Magnetogram, January-March, 2000. (Courtesy Mount Wilson Observatory). KNOWLEDGES, an experimental art initiative, invites the public to experience nature and science through a contemporary art lens—more than 5,000 feet above…
Continue reading »Smithsonian’s Reel Culture Blog: ‘Five Women Animators that Shook Up the Industry’
Brave, the latest animated offering from Disney/Pixar, features a female lead character for the first time in the studio’s history. In light of all the press focusing on the traditional…
Continue reading »Dave Lebow’s Dark ‘Visions’ on View
[nggallery id=261] Over the phone, Dave Lebow, a graduate of CalArts Experimental Animation MFA Program (00), is a pretty upbeat guy. You’d never know it, though, from his most recent…
Continue reading »Los Angeles Transit Authority Takes on Chicago
For the better part of a year, CalArts School of Art alum Jim Snyder (Art BFA 05) has dedicated his free time to a special music project: Arranging and recording…
Continue reading »Alumna’s Debut Novel Takes on Monotony of the Office
Los Angeles Magazine recently described author Anne-Marie Kinney (Critical Studies MFA 08) as a “Southern California Camus” in a review of her debut novel Radio Iris. Published earlier this month…
Continue reading »Candid Photos from CalArts Graduation 2012
[nggallery id=256] On Friday (May 18), CalArts held its 2012 graduation ceremony, dispatching the usual pomp and circumstance of other college graduations, instead bringing creativity, levity—and pyrotechnics. The afternoon’s festivities…
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