Catherine Opie Tackles High School Football in LACMA Photo Exhibit

[nggallery id=79] The exhibition Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape opened yesterday (July 25) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and showcases recent work by Opie, an internationally…

Seen @ CalArts: CSSSA Visiting Artist Carmina Escobar

Now in its 24th summer, InnerSpark: the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) has taken over the CalArts campus. The summer school for high school students, which began…

40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit

Akosua Adoma Owusu (Art, Film/Video MFA 2008) has taken her thesis film Me Broni Ba (my white baby) around the world–to date, it’s been screened at nearly 40 domestic and…

Evolution of The Wild Beast: A Photo Essay

Last summer, we provided you a Glimpse of the Wild Beast, and talked about the origins of the Hodgetts + Fung-designed 3,200-square foot performance and rehearsal space that would allow…

New CalArts Course Cluster Explores Connections between Biology and Art

In the simplest of terms for a complex practice, bio-art incorporates organic matter into works of art. For example, Philip Ross built a teahouse out of fungus, and composer David…

Building a Classroom without Walls: Russian and CalArtian Theater Students Collaborate Virtually

This past May, acting students from CalArts School of Theater and the Moscow Art Theater School (MXAT) took online learning across continents. Students critiqued each other’s work via videoconference as…

Alumnus’ Photo Portraiture Featured at Angels Gate Cultural Center

[nggallery id=76] Three exhibits opened this past weekend at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Calif., and include the portraiture work of photographers Slobodan Dimitrov, Camilo Cruz and CalArts…

Seventh Annual NOW Festival at REDCAT July 22-August 7

[nggallery id=75] For three weeks starting this month, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles will host the seventh annual New Original Works Festival, which runs…

CalArtians Receive Fulbright Fellowships

Many students have the opportunity to study and perform abroad while attending CalArts. Two recent CalArts graduates, Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen (Film/Video MFA 10, Theater MFA 09) and Emily Mendelsohn (Theater MFA…

From the Archives: Borborigmi

[nggallery id=73] Borborigmi is a collection of poetry and writing published by the CalArts School of Critical Studies in 1970. In the unpretentious DIY spirit of the times, it was…