On Tuesday (Nov. 23) the National Endowment for the Arts announced the 2011 winners of the Creative Writing Fellowships. Among the 42 recipients was CalArts faculty member Maggie Nelson, a…
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Aesthetics and Politics in the Real World: Q&A with Alumnus John D’Amico
John D’Amico, a 2009 graduate of CalArts’ School of Critical Studies Aesthetics and Politics program, is putting his art school degree into action: He’s making a bid for a seat…
Continue reading »Fallen Fruit’s Yearlong Project Concludes with Let them Eat LACMA on Sunday
[nggallery id=103] EATLACMA has been a nearly year-long examination of the relationships among art, food, culture, and politics curated by the Los Angeles-based Fallen Fruit art collective at the Los…
Continue reading »The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Travels from Ireland to the Smithsonian
[nggallery id=101] Christine Wertheim, who heads CalArts’ MFA Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies, and her sister Margaret Wertheim, a science writer, lecturer and exhibition curator, are also…
Continue reading »Janet Sarbanes’ Essay on The Shaker ‘Gift’ Economy Wins Battisti Award
Last month, Critical Studies faculty member Janet Sarbanes was named the winner of this year’s Battisti Award from the Society for Utopian Studies for her essay, “The Shaker ‘Gift’ Economy.”…
Continue reading »Writing the Future at MOCA on Oct. 2
In the past few years Christine Wertheim, chair of the MFA Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies, has organized four one or two-day conferences or symposia on a…
Continue reading »Q&A on Essen and CalArts in Europe with Faculty Member Arne de Boever
[nggallery id=88] Arne De Boever, a faculty member in the School of Critical Studies and the Aesthetics and Politics program at CalArts, recently returned from a nearly two-week fellowship in…
Continue reading »Careful (aka Eric Lindley) Releases Oh, Light Album
Earlier this summer, Eric Lindley, a 2008 CalArts graduate (Music/Writing and Integrated Media, MFA 08), released his second album, Oh Light, under the moniker Careful. The quiet, small-scale release caught…
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…
Continue reading »From the Archives: Borborigmi
[nggallery id=73] Borborigmi is a collection of poetry and writing published by the CalArts School of Critical Studies in 1970. In the unpretentious DIY spirit of the times, it was…
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