Winners were announced earlier this week for the 49th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (March 22-27) in Michigan. A number of films by CalArtians took home prizes, including recent graduate…
Continue reading »Photographic Artist Gina Dabrowski Finds Subject Matter at Landfills and in Refuse
[nggallery id=155] Gina Dabrowski (Art MFA 91), was awarded the 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers to continue an examination of the big business of trash and the evolution of…
Continue reading »CalArts Celebrates Trans Awareness Week with Performance in the Main Gallery
Diversity is one of CalArts’ core values, and last week the Institute celebrated Trans Awareness Week with a series of speakers, film screenings and performances, including a noontime concert in…
Continue reading »April 2011 Print Magazine Features CalArtian Designers
Print’s “Future” issue features the 20 Under 30—2011’s New Visual Artists (NVA)—who represent the future of design. Among the honorees are CalArts alumni Zak Kyes (Art BFA 05), Kim Dulaney…
Continue reading »Visiting Artist Edward Burns Stresses Collaboration, Compromise in Filmmaking
On Thursday (March 24), writer-director-actor Edward Burns’ latest film Nice Guy Johnny was screened in the Bijou Theater for CalArts students, and was immediately followed by a Q&A with Burns,…
Continue reading »Something for the Kid in All of Us: REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival
For the next four weekends (from March 26-April 17), REDCAT will present its 6th annual International Children’s Film Festival. The festival will include a new mind-expanding collection of short film…
Continue reading »Working Spring Break for CalArts Actors at NYC Showcase
Next week is Spring Break at CalArts, and while some students will head home, travel or recharge their batteries before the end of term, the graduating classes of MFA and…
Continue reading »Anne LeBaron’s The Silent Steppe Cantata Premieres in Kazakhstan on Friday
[nggallery id=154] After three years in the making, The Silent Steppe Cantata is set to debut in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Friday (March 25) in the city’s newly restored Zhambyl State…
Continue reading »Films by CalArts Alumni in Competition at Cinema du Réel in Paris
Cinéma du Réel in Paris, first organized in 1978 by Jean-Michel Arnold and filmmaker Jean Rouch, has developed into one of the major international documentary film festivals, judging hundreds of…
Continue reading »Structuring Strategies Presents Cathy Lee Crane’s Experimental Biographies
Media artist and experimental filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane presents a program of Experimental Biographies at tonight’s Structuring Strategies film class and screening series at CalArts. Crane, the 2009 recipient of…
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