Michael Darling on Creating the Virtual Classroom
How do you teach theater design students how to hang a lighting truss, video walls, scenic elements, and speakers high above a stage so they don’t come crashing down on…
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EventDecember 4 - 5, 2020
First-Ever Virtual CalArts Winter Dance Concert Set for This Weekend
On Friday and Saturday (Dec. 4-5), The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents its annual Winter Dance Concert featuring an ambitious, multitrack, online experience. In partnership with…
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Zach Tolchinsky Wins First Prize at My RØDE Reel 2020
Stop-motion filmmaker and art director Zach Tolchinsky (Film/Video MFA 2020) won My RØDE Reel (MRR) 2020’s first prize in animation for his film The Forbidden Zone. Tolchinsky was recognized in…
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Robin Myrick’s I Am This State of Emergency Released by Surveyor Books
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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CalArts Alum Julian Gross Earns Grammy Nomination
View this post on Instagram A post shared by GROUPLOVE (@grouplove) Musician and artist Julian Gross (Art 00) earned a Grammy nomination earlier this week for his design work. Specifically,…
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EventNovember 25, 2020
Music and Animation Unify in Parts, Together
On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 4 pm PST, the Twisted Spruce World Music Foundation presents the virtual premiere of the interdisciplinary project Parts, Together, composed by Azariah Felton (Music MFA…
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Steph Richards Latest Album Experiments in Scent and Sound
Experimental trumpeter and composer Steph Richards (Music MFA 08) curates an “inter-sensorial body of works” in Supersense, her third full-length album created in collaboration with Detroit-based multimedia artist Sean Raspet….
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Charles Gaines Joins NAD’s 2020 Class of National Academicians
Esteemed conceptual artist and School of Art faculty Charles Gaines has been inducted into the National Academy of Design’s (NAD) newest class of National Academicians. Gaines is among the 15…
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Hyperallergic Podcast with Sam Durant
View this post on Instagram A post shared by samdurant (@studiosamdurant) It’s been three years since the public artwork Scaffold by CalArts School of Art faculty Sam Durant ignited a…
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Mickey Mouse Returns to Disney+ with CalArtian Paul Rudish at Helm
More than 90 years after Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse (and further developed by animator Ub Iwerks), CalArts alum Paul Rudish (Film/Video BFA 91) brings the classic character to a…
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