[nggallery id=84] Ed. Note: Composer Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11) is at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month with a contingent of CalArtians involved in various works at the festival….
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CalArts: Then and Now
We found an old postcard of CalArts from the 1970s. Check out the cars parked along the driveway: Here’s a similar shot taken in 2008 (even before the construction of…
Continue reading »Animator Danielle Ash’s Pickles for Nickels Featured on PBS and NPR Shows
Pickles for Nickels, a short film by experimental animator and recent CalArts grad Danielle Ash (Film/Video MFA 09), has been garnering national attention lately. Earlier this year it won the…
Continue reading »Playwright Deborah Asiimwe wins BBC Competition for Will Smith Look-Alike
Last month, Ugandan playwright Deborah Asiimwe (Theater MFA 09) won the annual BBC World Service African Performance playwriting competition for her play Will Smith Look-Alike. The play, which was recorded…
Continue reading »Animation, Video Feeds and Live Performance Slated for Week Three of REDCAT’s NOW Festival
This weekend marks the final program of REDCAT’s NOW Festival, a three-weekend festival that celebrates artists who challenge the boundaries of their art forms. The current program features three experiments…
Continue reading »Week Two of REDCAT’s NOW Festival Features Hip-Hop Theater, Dance and Multimedia Projections
It’s the middle weekend for REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival (NOW). For three weeks in each of the past seven summers, the REDCAT stage has become a performance lab where…
Continue reading »The Car Show: A Theater and Car Wash Mashup
[nggallery id=80] Combine experimental theater, a drive-in movie and a car wash–then add a few CalArtians into the mix for a mounting of The Car Show at a downtown LA…
Continue reading »Catherine Opie Tackles High School Football in LACMA Photo Exhibit
[nggallery id=79] The exhibition Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape opened yesterday (July 25) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and showcases recent work by Opie, an internationally…
Continue reading »40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit
Akosua Adoma Owusu (Art, Film/Video MFA 2008) has taken her thesis film Me Broni Ba (my white baby) around the world–to date, it’s been screened at nearly 40 domestic and…
Continue reading »New CalArts Course Cluster Explores Connections between Biology and Art
In the simplest of terms for a complex practice, bio-art incorporates organic matter into works of art. For example, Philip Ross built a teahouse out of fungus, and composer David…
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