The Belle Brigade—brother-sister duo Barbara and Ethan Gruska, who attended CalArts—play a lunchtime performance on Friday (Aug. 3) at Grand Performances in Downtown Los Angeles. The two have music encoded…
Continue reading »CalArts Alums Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film
Last week, Filmmaker Magazine released its annual listing of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Among the notable emerging artists are collaborators and CalArts alumni Jason Tippet (Film/Video BFA 09)…
Continue reading »REDCAT Festival Celebrates the NOW
[nggallery id=268] The New Original Works (NOW) Festival—REDCAT’s summer celebration of vital new works for the stage—began a three-week run last night in LA featuring artists that challenge traditions and…
Continue reading »Artists Sam Durant and Liza Lou in Conversation at the Fowler Museum
The exhibition Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women closes this week at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and in a culminating public program tonight (July 26), artists Liza…
Continue reading »Animation Block Party in Brooklyn this Weekend
The Deep Dark (trailer) from Laura Heit on Vimeo. [nggallery id=267] The ninth annual Animation Block Party (ABP)—the largest animation festival on the East Coast—runs this weekend (July 27-29) at…
Continue reading »Susan Allen Performs in Concerts Celebrating Artist Yuri Titov in Paris
Renowned harpist and CalArts faculty member Susan Allen is in Paris this week, performing in a series of concerts (July 26-28) that honor Russian-born artist Yuri Titov. Titov, who will…
Continue reading »Jazz Saxophonist Gavin Templeton Releases Debut Album
On Saturday (July 28), the Gavin Templeton Quintet, a group consisting of composer and alto saxophonist, Gavin Templeton (Music MFA 08), guitarist/CalArts faculty member Larry Koonse, pianist Gary Fukushima (Music MFA…
Continue reading »Video: An Animated History of Machines
The animated short above, Machine History, was made at CalArts in 1983 by Doug Miller (Film/Video MFA 82) in a class taught by Jules Engel, the late founding director of the Experimental Animation Program….
Continue reading »School of Art Dean Tom Lawson Speaks at Jack Goldstein Exhibition
[nggallery id=”266″] Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is currently hosting the exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,000 through Sept. 9. It’s the first American retrospective of the work of the late…
Continue reading »Writer-Director Kevin Smith Gives Advice to Film Students via ‘Smodcast’
Writer/Director Kevin Smith, known for helming films such as Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma, has recently taken to hosting with long-time producer collaborator, Scott Mosier, several weekly podcasts released on SModcast Internet Radio. (“SModcast” is a mashup…
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