When CalArts closed its campus in March due to Covid-19, students in the School of Theater’s Costume Design Program scattered across the country. Many were without sewing machines. By May,…
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Last week, editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker interviewed visiting faculty Ann Telnaes (Film/Video BFA 85) for Punchlines, his video series on Politico.com. Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, taught…
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Before COVID-19 shuttered colleges across America, Guerilla’s Song, a group of Chinese students and alums at CalArts, launched weekly performance actions in response to China’s coronavirus epidemic. Presented live during…
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Adapting to the current health crisis, the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival screened as a free, live-streamed six-day event from Tuesday, March 24 to Sunday, March 29. This online version…
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“No genre can hold this book.” Writer Ben Lerner describes Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, which debuted on March 17, as…
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EventFebruary 25 - 26, 2016
George Saunders, one of the foremost innovators of the contemporary American short story, is this year’s Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence in the School of Critical Studies. While in residence, he will…
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Above: Janie Geiser’s ‘The Hummingbird Wars.’ To mark the passing of the legendary filmmaker Chantal Akerman, Indiewire released a list of “Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema.” School of Theater…
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“They may be small, but don’t call them toys,” said Martha Ferrara, referring to projects created in “Xsml,” the six-week special skills workshop she taught on designing and creating miniature…
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CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) celebrated its 25th anniversary at CalArts Alumni and Family Weekend, held on Oct. 16-17. Six talented alumni who taught in CAP during the program’s first…
Continue reading »Silent movies are making a comeback. Early this year, The Artist, a silent feature about the silent era, won five Academy Awards. Now, the premiere of contemporary Spanish silent Blancanieves at…
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