Poet, librettist, and former CalArts faculty Douglas Kearney (Critical Studies MFA 04) was recently named the recipient of OPERA America’s inaugural Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. The prize, conceived and funded…
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EventApril 5 - May 31, 2021
Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video MFA 10), the Feeler Gauge Festival opened virtually earlier this month, featuring 32 films by CalArts…
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EventApril 9 - 10, 2021
The MFA Creative Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies presents “Experiments in Dissonance: A Symposium of Interdisciplinary Writing,” running from Friday, April 9 to Saturday, April 10. This…
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EventMarch 23, 2021
The CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program’s 2021 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Joy Harjo conducts classroom visits and presents public readings on March 22 and 23 as part of her…
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Each semester the CalArts Aesthetics and Politics program invites a theorist focusing on media, urban, or global studies to spend up to two weeks at CalArts to teach workshops, faculty…
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by @tatints On Dec. 7, “Eros: Repopulation and the Instinct of Self-Preservation,” an article by CalArts alum Ani Tatintsyan (Critical Studies MA…
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Robin Myrick (Critical Studies MFA 08) dissects the fraught and highly divided political climate of the US in I Am This State Of Emergency, the first title published by Surveyor…
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On Nov. 8, the short film, Vacuum In Front Of You, co-created by Dean of the CalArts School of Critical Studies Amanda Beech and Diann Bauer was released to the…
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EventSeptember 3 - 30, 2020
The 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival, a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion-art, kicked off in Denver on Sept. 3. The festival includes an outdoor exhibition in the…
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EventSeptember 18 - December 16, 2020
Critical Studies faculty Gabrielle Civil, who recently wrapped up her artist residency at Automata, an experimental performance venue in downtown Los Angeles, will now host a series of conversations through…
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