CalArts Events

Shaping Inheritance brings together all eight Charles Gaines Fellows across four fellowship cohorts for the first time, exploring how contemporary artists inherit—and transform—the systems that shape our lives. 

Opening Reception: September 12, 6-8 PM RSVP

Flesh Witness brings together contemporary artists whose work examines global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Read more...

Sign up for Site-Specific Movement Training & Performance Research Series offered by choreographer MFA 2 Choreographer Yun Lee! 

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We’re excited to welcome you to campus for a weekend of art, community, and discovery! Whether you’re joining us for concerts, open studios, or just soaking in the creative spirit of CalArts, this is a chance to experience a little of what makes our community so special.

Please join us for a reception celebrating CalArts’ new campus mural! Generously supported by alumni Ryosaku Miyasaka (BFA Art 74), the project originated as a course led by River Garza, culminating in a winning design proposal selected by student vote.

Join us for an evening of dance with our new BFA 1 students with choreography by Rosanna Gamson, Lilian Ortega and Nathan Makolandra.

On the closing day of Shaping Inheritance, artists, curators, and the Charles Gaines MFA Fellows gather for an afternoon of conversations examining artistic inheritance not as a fixed lineage, but as an active process of interpretation, transformation, refusal, and transmission.

Join us for the CalArts:Reef Fall Biannual this October 17th from 5–8 PM for an evening of, group and solo exhibitions, live performances, and immersive presentations by artists-in-residence, Gaines Fellows, CalArts MFA postgraduates, alumni, and faculty. Read more...

Experience Sadie Barnette’s (Art BFA 06) latest solo exhibition, 28, with fellow CalArts alumni during a special walkthrough at Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Angel City Arts returns to REDCAT for its annual Jazz Refractions Festival with a dynamic double bill featuring Fred Frith’s Fremakajo + DoYeon Kim’s Quartet. Read more...

Angel City Arts returns to REDCAT for its annual Jazz Refractions Festival with a dynamic double bill featuring two outstanding artists from Los Angeles in dialogue with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Read more...

Visit alumna Abby Savell and her team at L.A. Percussion Rentals and Recording. 

Institute vans depart at 9:30am

Experience a live taping of sitcom Happy’s Place.

Institute vans depart campus at 2:45pm

Experimental Animation Visiting Artists series presents Anna Firth!