LACMA Acquires Shizu Saldamando’s La Brownskin
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has acquired La Brownskin, a portrait by CalArtian Shizu Saldamando (Art MFA 05). La Brownskin is a colored pencil portrait of Sebastian…
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Category: Art
Mark Bradford Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
On March 5, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor society of the country’s 300 leading architects, artists, composers, and writers, announced 29 new members and four honorary…
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Michael Worthington and Alums Talk CalArts Poster Show at REDCAT with EoB
East of Borneo (EoB), the online magazine of West Coast contemporary art and its history, published by the CalArts School of Art, currently features an interview with Graphic Design faculty…
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Center for Integrated Media Presents Three New Projects
The CalArts Center for Integrated Media’s (CIM) online curatorial initiative, archive, and virtual studio viralnet-v4.net launches its 2021 edition with three new projects: a podcast series titled Now|Swerve, hosted by…
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EventMarch 2, 2021
Visualizing Abolition Series Features Ashley Hunt and the Underground Scholars
On Tuesday, March 2, the Visualizing Abolition series from UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts & Sciences presents writer, artist, and CalArts Art faculty Ashley Hunt in conversation with…
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Born in a Pandemic: Full Service Creative Provides Fabrication, Consulting Services to LA’s Art Community
“We want to solve artists’ problems,” explains Kenneth Yuen (Art MFA 20), who with Casey Baden (Art MFA 20) recently co-founded Full Service Creative. Having graduated into the worst economy…
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EventFebruary 23, 2021
In Conversation: Cauleen Smith and Tisa Bryant on Give It Or Leave It
Artist and CalArts faculty Cauleen Smith’s exhibition Give It Or Leave It is currently installed at LACMA, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, the museum is closed. One of the only…
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Short Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu Featured on the Criterion Channel
This month, the Criterion Channel is featuring a collection of short films by CalArts alum and Ghanaian American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu (Art, Film/Video MFA 08). A Criterion Channel exclusive…
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HBO’s The Lady and the Dale Co-Directed by Zackary Drucker
On Jan. 31, HBO released The Lady and the Dale, a documentary miniseries directed by CalArts alum Zackary Drucker (Art MFA 07) and Nick Cammilleri. The four-episode series features, “an…
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EventJanuary 23 - May 16, 2021
KMFA Presents Full-Scale Retrospective Tony Oursler: Black Box
The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA) in Taiwan presents Black Box, an exhibition of works by prominent multimedia artist Tony Oursler (Art BFA 79). The exhibition, which is being…
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