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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On Wednesday, April 22, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2020 Artist Project Grants. Among this year’s nine grant awardees is the Roy and…
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School of Critical Studies faculty Anthony McCann’s nonfiction prose work Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (Bloomsbury) has been named a finalist in the 30th annual Reading the…
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By Gregory Houle Like many artists, Gar LaSalle (Film/Video MFA 76) does not limit how he practices his art. From music to animation, from film to sculpting, from scriptwriting to…
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erin McDermott (@art_eries) on Apr 7, 2020 at 7:51pm PDT On Friday, April 10, readers of The Boston Globe saw the…
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EventApril 17, 2020
On Friday, April 17, the Writing Now Reading Series introduces “Across Social Distance,” a literary marathon hosted by American performance artist, poet, and School of Critical Studies faculty Gabrielle Civil….
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It’s been a little more than a month since the COVID-19 pandemic forced students, faculty and staff to leave CalArts and shelter at home. Many CalArtians have said how much…
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Now that CalArts’ spring semester is underway, faculty and students are addressing the current COVID-19 quarantine era in creative ways, making art—as a salve for the soul or to help…
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On Wednesday (April 8), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced the awarding of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships to 175 scholars, artists, and writers. Several CalArts alums and faculty were…
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In late March, literary magazine Sublevel celebrated the release of its fourth issue, Edge. This latest edition “explores what constitutes the pornographic today,” and grapples with the “inherent difficulty of…
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