Composer Alex Buck (Music DMA 23) was named the first prize winner of Musicworks’ 2019 Electronic Music Composition Contest for his composition Screaming Trees. Musicworks, a Toronto-based avant-garde music magazine,…
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The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts has been named in Billboard’s 2020 ranking of the best music business schools. “The students entering college this fall will shape the…
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Pendleton Ward (Film/Video BFA 05), creator of the beloved animated show Adventure Time, is back with a new out-of-this-world series called The Midnight Gospel. In partnership with actor and comedian…
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Before COVID-19 shuttered colleges across America, Guerilla’s Song, a group of Chinese students and alums at CalArts, launched weekly performance actions in response to China’s coronavirus epidemic. Presented live during…
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On Wednesday, April 22, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2020 Artist Project Grants. Among this year’s nine grant awardees is the Roy and…
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School of Critical Studies faculty Anthony McCann’s nonfiction prose work Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (Bloomsbury) has been named a finalist in the 30th annual Reading the…
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By Gregory Houle Like many artists, Gar LaSalle (Film/Video MFA 76) does not limit how he practices his art. From music to animation, from film to sculpting, from scriptwriting to…
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erin McDermott (@art_eries) on Apr 7, 2020 at 7:51pm PDT On Friday, April 10, readers of The Boston Globe saw the…
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EventApril 17, 2020
On Friday, April 17, the Writing Now Reading Series introduces “Across Social Distance,” a literary marathon hosted by American performance artist, poet, and School of Critical Studies faculty Gabrielle Civil….
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It’s been a little more than a month since the COVID-19 pandemic forced students, faculty and staff to leave CalArts and shelter at home. Many CalArtians have said how much…
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