The Princess Grace Foundation recently announced its 2012 awards, and among the more than two dozen recipients are CalArts students Vincent Richards, a current MFA student in the School of…
Continue reading »‘Micropangaea’ Features Music, Animation and Liner Notes for the Wired World
by Nicholas Katzban/Special to 24700 The press release for Micropangaea states boldly, “the lack of focus on album artwork with digital downloads… has taken some of the joy out of…
Continue reading »‘Artists as Travellers’ Exhibit Part of a CalArts-Braunschweig Exchange
[nggallery id=270] Last month, artist Shirley Tse—co-director for the Program in Art at CalArts and recently named California Community Foundation fellow—led a group of 13 students from the School of…
Continue reading »Final Week of NOW Festival Begins Tonight at REDCAT
The 9th Annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival wraps up this week at REDCAT with three new works by performance artist Emily Mast, choreographer Melanie Rios Glaser and theater artist Heather Woodbury….
Continue reading »Video from the Fringe: Aleshea Harris in ‘Oddlie’
Aleshea Harris, an MFA student in CalArts’ Writing for Performance program, is also a poet, singer-songwriter and actress. She’s currently in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe with her one-woman show…
Continue reading »Return to the Wild: CalArtians at Earthfire Institute for Summer Residency
[nggallery id=271] For the third consecutive summer, this past July, four CalArtians traveled to the Earthfire Institute’s Idaho Wildlife Sanctuary on the western slope of Grand Teton National Park. The…
Continue reading »CCF Visual Artist Grants Awarded to CalArts Faculty and Alumni
A video excerpt from Adam Overton’s 20 Meditations in 20 Minutes [SHOUTED!!] [nggallery id=269] Several CalArtians were recently named 2012 recipients of The California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship for Visual…
Continue reading »On the Fringe: CalArts Productions at Edinburgh Festival
GODS @ Edinburgh teaser from Alexis Macnab on Vimeo. by Nicholas Katzban / Special to 24700 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s history stretches back to 1947. For the past nine of…
Continue reading »Week Two: NOW Festival Continues at REDCAT
The New Original Works (NOW) Festival continues this week with three new works for the stage. The week two program includes experimental choreographers Nick+James, sound/video artist and CalArts alumnus Jinku Kim (Music MFA 12)…
Continue reading »Made in L.A. Soundmap iPhone App Features Artist, ‘CalArts Groupie’ Simone Forti
As we previously posted, Made in L.A. 2012, L.A.’s first biennial exhibition featuring the work of 60 local artists, runs through Sept. 2 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, LAXART in Culver…
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