Dance Students Travel to Tel Aviv for BRIDGE Program

by Stephanie Smith (Music MFA 11) Earlier this summer, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles awarded scholarships to three current and three alumni students at The Sharon Disney Lund…

From the Archives: Guess Who?

This photo of CalArts alum Paul Reubens (Theater BFA 73) appeared on the back cover of the first (and only) issue of Pulp, a student publication from Nov. 1, 1973.

Careful (aka Eric Lindley) Releases Oh, Light Album

Earlier this summer, Eric Lindley, a 2008 CalArts graduate (Music/Writing and Integrated Media, MFA 08), released his second album, Oh Light, under the moniker Careful. The quiet, small-scale release caught…

MoMA’s New Photography 2010 to Feature Alumnus Elad Lassry

[nggallery id=87] In its upcoming New Photography 2010 exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York highlights the work of four artists who are making significant accomplishments to…

Provocative Neighbors Examines Issues of Sex and Race in America

[nggallery id=86] Neighbors, a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, had its West Coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre in Hollywood last week. Directed by Nataki Garrett, newly appointed associate dean of…

CalArts Alumnus Added to Filmmaker Magazine’s ’25 New Faces’ List

Last year, we wrote about the 47th New York Film Festival (NYFF) and the number of CalArtians involved in the festival’s experimental film program, the 13th Annual Views from the…

Orkestar MÉZÉ Playing ‘Peasant Funk’ this Weekend

Milen Kirov, a DMA performer/composer candidate at The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, is teaching jazz and musicianship classes during the fall semester. But the Bulgarian-born musician can…

Alumnus Jeremy Hight Joins MIT Press

We heard that alumnus Jeremy Hight (Critical Studies MFA 98) was recently named New Media Curator of MIT Press’s Leonardo Online. He’ll be providing content for their new iPad application…

New Wadada Leo Smith Piece to Premiere Saturday

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is hosting a concert on Saturday (Aug. 28) in West Hollywood that features compositions by renowned jazz…

CalArts Animation Screened at Hiroshima Animation Festival

[nggallery id=85] The Hiroshima International Animation Festival, one of the most respected international animation festivals (along with Annecy, Ottawa and Zagreb festivals), took place earlier this month from Aug. 7-11….