The Herb Alpert Foundation recently announced the recipients of the 2021 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). The awards have traditionally recognized mid-career artists pushing the boundaries of Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts.

At the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony last night, CalArts alum Pete Docter took home his third Oscar as Pixar’s Soul won the Best Animated Feature Film category.

The New York-based Posse Foundation, a preeminent organization in youth leadership development, today (April 16) announced a new partnership and pilot program with CalArts to foster a diverse pipeline of leaders in the creative arts.

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced its newest class of Guggenheim Fellows, with several CalArtians among this year’s recipients: Karen Lofgren, Melissa Thorne, School of Art faculty Cauleen Smith and Michael Jang.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City heralds the change in season with the spring edition of its performing arts series Works & Process, featuring CalArtian musicians on two April dates. With cooperation from the New York Department of Health and a collaboration with...

The CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program’s 2021 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Joy Harjo conducts classroom visits and presents public readings on March 22 and 23 as part of her residency.

In the Atlanta area on Tuesday, a gunman killed eight people in three different locations. While the investigation continues, this fact is known: Six of the people who died were Asian women. 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the Academy Award (Oscar) nominations on Monday, March 15, with several CalArtians among the list of honorees.

With recent developments in vaccinations and lowered transmission rates, CalArts is on track to conduct in-person classes and residential experiences for the fall 2021 semester.

On Sunday, Feb. 28, the metaphysical Disney/Pixar feature 'Soul' picked up two awards at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards: Best Animated Motion Picture and for Best Original Score — Motion Picture.

Los Angeles-based violinist, composer, and sound designer Henry Webster (Music BFA 13, MFA 17) transforms a stroll through natural Southern Californian landscapes into a meditative sonic experience in his augmented reality (AR) soundwalk The Bird. 

This email was sent to the CalArts community from President Ravi Rajan in reponse to the breach of the U.S. Capitol today, Jan. 6, 2021, during the Electoral College vote count. 

Singer, Tony Award-nominated actress, and CalArts alum Condola “Dola” Rashad releases Space Daughter: Behind the Magic, a mini-documentary that provides insight into the creative process of her critically acclaimed visual EP, Space Daughter. The documentary will be...

The latest issue of CalArts' alumni magazine, The Pool, is online now, focusing on themes of social justice and equity. 

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, CalArts announced the appointment of Volker Straebel as the next dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts (HASOM) and the new Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music.  A musicologist, composer, curator, and academic leader, Straebel has served as...

Renowned artist and long-time faculty member Charles Gaines has provided an initial donation to establish a fellowship that will provide critical scholarship support for Black students in CalArts' MFA Art program.

The Herb Alpert Foundation which funds the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts will double the number of annual award recipients from 5 to 10 while maintaining the $75,000 unrestricted prize given to each winner in the five categories of dance, music, film/video, theatre and visual arts. The...