Lee Witz Wins at 2021 FINE CUT Festival
CalArtian Lee Witz (Film/Video BFA 21) has been named the winner of the Animation Award at the 22nd annual FINE CUT Festival of Films for his animated short “Frankie The…
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Tag: Alumni
Douglas Kearney’s Sho Named Finalist for 2021 National Book Award
On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the National Book Foundation announced the 25 finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards. Among this year’s selections is Sho (Wave Books), a collection by alum…
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Material-i-ty: Gosia Wojas Releases New Volume Book
CalArtian Gosia Wojas (Art BFA 19) announces her latest publication Material-i-ty, a volume book featuring essays from artists Cara Benedetto and Farah Karapetian and writer Anthony Leslie. Wojas shared the…
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Don Mee Choi Selected as 2021 MacArthur Fellow
Poet and translator Don Mee Choi (Art BFA 84, MFA 86) has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, joining the distinguished ranks of hundreds of artists and academics across disciplines…
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Justin Townsend Wins 2021 Tony Award
On Sunday (Sept. 26), theater luminaries recognized achievements in Broadway at the 74th Tony Awards at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, after more than a year delay…
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EventSeptember 12 - March 20, 2022
The Wende Presents Sichong Xie’s Memory Structure, Scaffold Series
The Wende Museum in Culver City, Calif., presents CalArtian Sichong Xie’s (Art MFA 17) latest installation Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, running now until March 20, 2022. Xie’s installation features hand-built…
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Aphton Corbin Directs Pixar SparkShort ‘Twenty Something’
Pixar’s SparkShort series continues with storyboard artist Aphton Corbin‘s (Film/Video BFA 16) “Twenty Something,” the ninth short selected since the program’s launch in 2019. Corbin recently spoke with Ramin Zahed…
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CalArtians Take Home 2021 Creative Arts Emmys
As the three ceremonies for the 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards drew to a close over the weekend, CalArtians Genndy Tartakovsky (Film/Video 92), Hal Hickel (Film/Video 83), David Krentz (Film/Video…
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EventSeptember 11 - 12, 2021
CalArtians at Fourth Annual Other Places Art Fair
This weekend, the historic Battery Leary-Merriam landmark in Los Angeles will be taken over by the CalArtian-founded Other Places art fair (OPaf) 2021, a two-day outdoor showcase of experimental contemporary…
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Briana Venskus Cast in Upcoming Dark LGBTQ+ Comedy Unconventional
Actor Briana Venskus (Theater BFA 09) has joined the main cast of Unconventional, the upcoming independently produced dark LGBTQ+ comedy series by EastSiders creator Kit Williamson. The series, which was…
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