Saturday (Feb. 27) marks the opening of the REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum, the festival offers animated, live-action and classic…
Continue reading »blu: CalArts Thesis Project Now a Yale Drama Series Winner
[nggallery id=40] It was announced Feb. 23 that the stage play blu, Virginia Grise’s MFA thesis project at CalArts, was chosen by English playwright David Hare (The Vertical Hour, Amy’s…
Continue reading »Exhibit Showcases Billboards as Art in LA
[nggallery id=39] The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, Calif., has opened an ambitious urban project–How Many Billboards? Art In Stead–that features large-scale…
Continue reading »Accolades for CalArtians Continue at BAFTAs
The film awards season continued this weekend in London with The British Academy of Film and Television Arts handing out its BAFTA awards. A number of CalArtians were again included…
Continue reading »Seen at CalArts: Character Animation Group Show in Main Gallery
[nggallery id=37] You never know what to expect when walking through CalArts’ Main Gallery. Dance. Noontime concerts. Rehearsals. But earlier in the semester, the walls were filled with artwork from…
Continue reading »Anatomically Correct Art Show Opens at Miss Scarlet in the Parlor This Weekend
Miss Scarlet in the Parlor is a little gallery and store located in LA’s Echo Park, owned by a CalArts alumna Eliza Frye (Film/Video 09), also a current MFA student…
Continue reading »Poet Douglas Kearney Reads from The Black Automaton in LA this Weekend
[Click on the poem above to read Douglas Kearney’s ‘The Black Automaton in Tag: Refugee.‘] Douglas Kearney, a faculty member of CalArts’ School of Critical Studies, is one of those…
Continue reading »The African American Arts Experience at CalArts Next Week
Ed. note: February is Black History Month, and we’ve asked a few members of the CalArts community to reflect on what it means to them. Today’s guest columnist is Erinn…
Continue reading »Filmmaker John Greyson to Conduct Screenings, Workshops at CalArts this Week
Much of Canadian filmmaker John Greyson’s work (Lilies, Uncut, Zero Patience) incorporates political themes and gay issues in ways that are provocative, yet funny. He often includes song and history…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics Visiting Lecturer Brent Edwards on Jazz and History
Brent Hayes Edwards, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, visits CalArts tonight to discuss his latest work and research in the lecture on…
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