[nggallery id=217] With the feature film The Muppets opening nationwide this week, puppeteer Chase Woolner, a fourth-year BFA student in CalArts’ School of Theater, can cross another item off his…
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One of the Decade’s ‘Best Avant-Garde Films’ Began as a CalArts Thesis
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson’s (Film/Video MFA 01) CalArts thesis documentary, An Injury to One—about the 1917 lynching of a union organizer—was released on DVD last month by Icarus Films. The film…
Continue reading »Guitarist Mike Keneally Premieres New Piece with 52-Piece CalArts Orchestra at REDCAT
Legendary guitarist Mike Keneally, known as the former “stunt guitarist” and keyboard virtuoso in Frank Zappa’s final touring band, brings a new composition for guitar, electric piano and a 52-piece…
Continue reading »Boxing Bout In the Jungle of Cities Opens Tonight
In the Jungle of Cities, a play written by legendary playwright and German modernist Bertolt Brecht, tells the story of a battle of life and death between two metaphorical boxers…
Continue reading »Writing Alum Sam Benjamin Discusses a ‘Brief History of Porn’
There’s another side to the Hollywood film industry that rarely makes the headlines in Variety. The adult film (pornography) business generally stays under the radar though it generates billions of…
Continue reading »Kyla Wazana Tompkins Discusses Eating the Other at CalArts
Tonight, the Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series hosts guest speaker Kyla Wazana Tompkins, who’ll present the lecture Eating The Other and the Other, Eating: Race, Commodity Citizenship and Chromolithographic Trade…
Continue reading »Heather Ehlers SPINs Life into Art in L.A. and New York
Theater School Faculty Heather Ehlers performed her one-woman show, SPIN for enthusiastic audiences at the Electric Lodge in Venice Oct. 27-30. She takes the show to The United Solo Festival…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: Families and Friends Immerse Themselves in CalArts Weekend
[nggallery id=”210″] More than 300 guests—family and friends of current CalArts students—attended the first-ever CalArts Weekend on Oct. 21-22. The weekend provided parents of current CalArts students an opportunity to…
Continue reading »Art Historian Darby English on Imagery and Emmett Till at REDCAT
In tomorrow evening’s (Nov. 3) CalArts’ Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series talk at REDCAT, University of Chicago art historian and faculty member Darby English discusses Emmett Till in the Present Tense….
Continue reading »San Francisco World Music Festival Pays Tribute to CalArts Faculty Swapan Chaudhuri
The 12th Annual San Francisco World Music Festival kicks off Thursday (Oct. 27) and runs through Oct. 30 with a special tribute planned for North Indian Tabla Master and CalArts’…
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