When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down CalArts’ in-person operations (and the world) in March 2020, then-student Benjamin Gordon was determined to finish his Art MFA program. “I felt there was…
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EventJuly 17 - 18, 2021
Editor’s Note: Sandra Powers (Film/Video MFA 09) also received a nomination in the Outstanding Editing for a Preschool Animated Program category for Elena of Avalor (Disney Junior). On Monday, June…
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Earlier this month, BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) revealed the 15 finalists for the 2021 GSA BAFTA Student Awards. Among the honorees was CalArts student Anna…
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CalArtian and President of Nickelodeon Animation Ramsey Naito (Art MFA 95) discussed the importance of representing a diversity of voices through entertainment at the 2021 Women In Animation (WIA) Virtual…
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EventMay 22 - June 27, 2021
The exhibition Chouinard Art Institute Benches (1921-1972) is currently on view at Marta gallery in downtown Los Angeles through Sunday, June 27. The collection of century-old artists’ benches, “present themselves…
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EventJune 26, 2021
London-based film studies scholar and critic Erika Balsom explores “one of the great works of the American avant-garde” in Ten Skies (Fireflies Press). The book is named for School of…
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Boston Lyric Opera is pushing the boundaries of opera with its recent release of the groundbreaking eight-part miniseries, Desert In. An opera, TV show, and music video all in one,…
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Honolulu-based music production collective EMC² raises ocean safety awareness in their latest music video Jellyfishes, produced, written, and sung by CalArtian Jaslyn Loftin (Music BFA 19), aka J.Lyn. Established in…
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Netflix Animation recently shared a first look of stills from the upcoming limited-animated series Maya and the Three by CalArtian animator Jorge Gutiérrez (Film/Video MFA 00). View this post on…
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EventJune 17, 2021
On Thursday, June 17, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation present I’m Already Liberated, a talk and live virtual screening with artist, filmmaker,…
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