Alumni

2021 Spring Alumnx Council Seed Grant Awardees

• Cori Bratby-Rudd, Walking Amongst the Rubble: Undocuqueer Pride (A Podcast!)
  LA’s freshest free monthly queer poetry reading series, Influx Collectiv, welcomes Influx Collectiv: the Podcast to all streaming platforms near you. Season one: Walking Amongst the Rubble: Undocuqueer Pride, will include poetry performances and interviews by LA-based award-winning undocuqueer poets. Fans of the live/in person series can now enjoy the poetry they love from their bedrooms or their commuter vehicles.

• Nadia Haile, Storytwigs Interactive Adventure
  Storytwigs creates choose-your-own-adventure style interactive stories, where the reader gets to decide what happens next. The goal of this project is to design a fully-fledged prototype of one such interactive story for Storytwigs. This builds on old-school text adventures and develops them further for an increasingly screen-native world. Even within the niche interactive fiction community, very few of the most celebrated interactive stories make an effort to create well-designed content.

• Patrick Jewell, Brooklyn Living Room Sessions
  A video and audio podcast series connecting Brooklyn’s innovative improvisational musicians to local/international communities by way of collaborative performances and informative, entertaining interviews. This series will exhibit undiscovered (and a few world-renowned) creative musicians at a time when artists are eager to get their music to enthusiasts, and a behind-the-scenes view of the living room session that happens every day across Brooklyn will provide a unique audience experience.

• K Knittel, OPaf (Other Places art fair)
  Fluid in definition, bonded by an intention to operate in other places outside the traditional art gallery systems, OPaf (Other Places art fair) provides an alternative art fair structure designed specifically for unconventional projects. Now entering its fourth year, OPaf features participants presenting site-specific booths encapsulating their projects and programming, representing the growing movement of hard-to-define art spaces.

• Kesiah Manival, With Love, Escargot
  A seven minute stop motion animated film, chronicling a conflict between two individuals and the way their emotions manifest around them throughout their environment. Ambient and heavy visual energies using a blend of stop motion and experimental multimedia techniques serve to create a deeply confrontational feeling on screen of what it is to fail to communicate our emotions to those around us.

• T.J. Tario, Drop The Beat
  The project is a short dance film that innovates the art of drag, classical music, and the dance style of Vogue Femme (from LGBT+ Ballroom subculture - and in collaboration with the Iconic House of Xtravaganza). What makes this short film unique is that T.J. Tario, as a Film Composer by day and drag performer by night, has the autonomous decisions to be in back of the camera directing, and also choreographing the vogue.

2021 Spring Alumnx Graphic Design Awardees

• Lisa Armstrong, Echoes: Sight, Sound, and Touch
  Echoes investigates the space between joy and grief, tracking growth and healing over time. This series of installations will be comprised of projected risograph animation, a series of artist flip books, and multi-channel soundscapes. Documenting changes over time in plant matter, the work asks, how do we grow and heal over time? How are memories stored in mundane objects? And what are the memory markers that help us make meaning in our lives?

• Jessica Fleishmann, Saturday Morning: Notes from Now for Tomorrow
  Design and production of a book that presents writings and images made by a group of women who gather weekly via zoom throughout quarantine. We reflect on our experiences during this time: the mutual support, struggles, and strengths we've found. Participants are all creative professionals in their 50s/60s, so it provides a point of view that is somewhat outside the regular social media channels.

• Pedro Lavin, I Feel Love
  I Feel Love is a short film highlighting the completion of my coming out cycle, and my celebratory arrival into full queerness. The film tells the story of an orgasm, told in three parts, and through two distinct visual lenses. In one world, we see two male lovers sharing an intimate night of passion going from arousal to climax and finally rest; and in another, more surreal world, we witness Little Death, the god of desire, mirror those three stages through dance: birth, life and death.

• Lucas Daniel, Problem Children
  Problem Children is an arts enrichment and mentorship program for high school-aged artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project pairs students with a mentor who helps them develop (over 3 months) a project of their own design and shares general creative experience and knowledge. Students also attend group sessions that introduce them to relevant artistic reference points, brings them into community with like minded peers, and pushes them to become more sophisticated creatives.

• Jon Sueda, All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive / Olympics edition
  All Possible Futures Unrealized Archive uncovers “unrealized” graphic design projects that consumed years of work, but were never produced. These proposals—ranging in form from PDFs to models, and sketches—remain unmade but deserving of discussion. In honor of the summer Olympics, the project will showcase unrealized Olympics logos created for host cities that were not selected. In response to the pandemic, we are visualizing this edition as a storefront window display accessible from the street.

2020 Fall Alumnx Council Seed Grant Awardees

• Mary Beth Heffernan, The PPE Portrait Project: Art Toward the Transformation of Medicine
  PPE Portraits are postcard sized portraits worn on the chest that enable patients, students, the elderly and others to see who is caring for them—and healthcare workers and teachers to see each other—during our "epidemic of facelessness."Seeing a picture of a face has powerful psychosocial and physiological effects that activates a patient's healing mechanisms, and fosters communication and trust.

  • PPE Portrait Project (main site)

  • PPE Portrait Project (Wikipedia)

  • PPE Portrait Project by Mary Beth Heffernan | The power of art in connecting people: (Wellcome Collection Feb 2021)

  • PAC Talks: In Conversation with Mary Beth Heffernan

  • Challenge the isolation and grief of COVID-19 patients and their families with "strengthening connections" (Japan - Weekly Medical World Newspaper (Nursing Issue))

  • Past Caring Podcast - Episode 1: Pandemics

  • The PPE Portrait Project: Art Toward the Transformation of Medicine

  • Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

  • PPE Portraits—a Way to Humanize Personal Protective Equipment

  • Reactivated PPE Portrait Project strengthens human connections in the COVID-19 crisis

• Cassia Streb, Music for Your Inbox; December and January events
  Part of an ongoing digital concert series called Music for Your Inbox (MFYI), this project is two pairings of experimental music performance and visual art . This series is co-founded by CalArts alumnx Cassia Streb (music, 06) and features experimental art and music created and realized by a diverse group of artists, composers, musicians, and video and sound technicians. The video performances are delivered to subscribers via email and the art is sent as a postcard via surface mail.

  • Music for Your Inbox (main site)

  • Music for Your Inbox (Facebook page)

  • Cassia Streb Class Notes (The Pool #6)

• Megan Broughton, Two if by Sea Press
  Two If By Sea is a newly-launched literary and art journal concerned with how water bodies have been the location of displacement, environmental injustice, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and genocide. Each print issue will include visual art, poetry, and prose while the online issues feature additional video and sound art.

  • Two if by Sea Press (main site)

  • Meet Megan Broughton of Two if by Sea Press, School of Now (Voyage LA)

• Alisha Mehta, LATA
  This film follows Lata, a 23 year old domestic worker, as she navigates her way through an upper class home in Mumbai. Within her earshot exist drivers, delivery men, other maids and watchmen that support and maintain the apartment building and the people who call it home.  Doors consistently open and close, giving Lata selective access to the various contending realities that occupy this space.

  • LATA (Facebook page)

  • Interview to Alisha Mehta ''LATA'' (Nest) - 2020

  • ​​Sundance 'LATA' Review + QnA: An Important Short That Highlights The Invisible Lines Of Classism In Our Lives

  • ‘Lata’ – An Independent Film Giving Voice To India’s Domestic Workers

  • We Are Completely In Denial Of The Realities Of Class And Caste That Surround Us: Alisha Mehta

  • Sundance 2021 Lineup Features Films by CalArtians (24700 Blog)

• Hannah Varamini, Recent Pasts, Tomorrow’s Archives
  "Recent Pasts, Tomorrow’s Archives" is a series of free, public online workshops that serve as programming that accompanies and precedes the group exhibition "Recent Pasts, Revisited," which will be installed at ArtCenter DTLA in Fall 2021, upon the invitation of Love's Remedies, current ArtCenter DTLA artist-in-residence. "Recent Pasts, Tomorrow’s Archives" explores ways of increasing access to exhibitions, sparked by the question, “what is programming?” in the context of art exhibitions.

  • Recent Pasts - Love’s Remedies

  • Recent Pasts, an exhibition in two parts (Art Center)

  • Recent Pasts, an exhibition in two parts (Southland Institute)

• John Henningsen, Atlas Electrics - Thymele Arts
  CalArts Alum founded Thymele Arts seeks a seed grant to repair and install the electrical for performance lighting in a new community space. At the beginning of the pandemic, Thymele Arts was able to take over a new storefront and convert it into a cabaret space to showcase area artists. One of the last steps in the renovation is to create a simple lighting system to highlight the presenters, performers, and guest lecturers.

2020 Fall Alumnx Graphic Design Awardees

• Elizabeth Buchta and Daniela Marx, with Dada Doodle Day
  Dada Doodle Day is a 3 hour online design event held once a month for high school students. The project’s goal is to introduce teenagers to the possibilities of design through the medium of doodling. This free online experience is intended to reach new audiences and communities that are not always included in design education programs. Dada Doodle Day will be facilitated by Elizabeth Buchta and Daniela Marx and feature special guest designers.

  • Dada Doodle Day (main site)

  • Dada Doodle Day (Facebook page)

• Florencio Zavala, Turtle Island Skateboard Poster
  Turtle Island Skateboard Project partnered with Seeding Sovereignty to promote a holiday drive, providing skateboards and equipment to indigenous and vulnerable youth communities. This poster series continues the branding work Zavala does for the organization to help support their efforts.

  • Estudio Zavala (portfolio site)

• Becca Lofchie, Panacea Americae
  Panacea Americae is a book about Panax quinquefolius, a variety of ginseng that grows wild in the Appalachian mountains. Inspired by the rhizomatic structure of the ginseng root, the book will tell a tangential and digressive history of ginseng in America, where it has seeded fortunes, myths, and wellness trends, and traced a line between China and rural America.

• Christina Huang, Beautiful State/Central State
  Beautiful State/Central State is an experimental publication about the ongoing information war between the US and China. The book will include collages that draw from US/Chinese government imagery, an essay about the information wars by a scholar of contemporary Chinese art, and will combine conventions from Chinese and Western book design in an effort to invite conversation about the politics of the Chinese-American identity.

• Tasheka Arceneaux, Black Lives Matter 2
  BLM2 is a series of typographic posters that memorialize unarmed Black people who have been murdered by police and vigilantes. Some posters act as tombstones or obituary for the victims and othe posters express the frustration, outrage, and hurt of the Black community. The posters use various typographic image-making techniques that represent themes of duality and stereotypes with references to old printing techniques. This project includes a website and printed catalog.

  • Black Lives Matter Too Poster Series (Behance)

  • Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton: Creating The Missing Chapter

  • Huh? #33: An interview with Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton

Spring 2020 Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Molly Surazhsky in collaboration with CalArts alums Elizabeth Dally, Juliana Romero, Elizabeth Smith , Scarlett Kim, Woohee Cho, Hannah Grossman, and more. 
  PPE for Covid-19 was created by artist Surazhsky, who has been using her sewing skills to mobilize the LA art community and CalArts alumnx to create masks for essential workers in this COVID-19 crisis. From providing patterns to collecting and distributing masks to organizations like Planned Parenthood, Meals on Wheels, and health clinics, Surazhsky has been running a grassroots effort to provide masks where they are most needed.
• Elaine Avila in collaboration with CalArts alums Ian Garrett, Celeste Den, and School of Theater faculty Marissa Chibas. 
  Encoberto/Hidden, the social distant cape is a play by Avila. She received the first U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grant to the University of the Azores, Portugal last year, to research, write and conduct interviews for the play, which is inspired by the capes her female ancestors wore for approximately 400 years. These capes look very much like the capes in The Handmaid's Tale, and during COVID-19, it has been described as the ultimate social distancing garment.
• Rajee Samarashinghe in collaboration with CalArts alum Christina C. Nguyen. 
  The Eyes of Summer was collaboratively developed with members of Samarashinghe’s family, shortly after the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2010. A narrative was improvised around an investigation into his mother's interactions with spirits in the village where she grew up. Landing somewhere between horror fiction and “spectral” ethnography, the film describes a population reeling from devastations of the past, where distinctions between the living and the dead are thinning.
• Jamie Naqvi in collaboration with CalArts alum Ashish Dha, and School of Film/Video faculty Marjan Hormozi.
  In the Time of is part of an online exhibition. Climate change, the U.S. elections, COVID-19; these are but some of the challenges we face at the dawn of the new decade. In the Time of asks four artists––from different backgrounds and disciplines––for their creative interpretations of the chosen theme. The works will then be presented as an online exhibition from Sept. 4-Oct. 1st, 2020.
• Emilia Moscoso Borja in collaboration with CalArts alums Rusty Kennedy, Marcelo Bucater, and Vivian Naranjo. 
  Emilia Desiré Quartet will record an 8-track CD of original compositions, which has been developed since 2017. The music is based on Moscoso Borja’s life experience, addressing feminism, South American culture, together with the whirlwind of everyday life. The music is very creative and boundary-breaking, music that represents Borja and, in some ways, it becomes universal so that both the musicians and the audience can assimilate, feel, and appropriate it.
• Roger Holzberg in collaboration with CalArts alums Shannon Scrofano, Martin Casella, Joe Lancisero, Skyler Spiegel, Natalie Ferguson, Lauren Gonzales, Gabriel Solomon, and Dustin Washburn.
  Integrating Creativity Into Palliative Care and End of Life: The Healthcare By Design class is a course within the Experience Design program in the CalArts School of Theater. Each year the class partners with a hospital to deliver a pilot that solutions a real world problem for patients and families. This year the partnership is with Henry Mayo Hospital. The class is partnering with the palliative care team to develop a program that integrates creativity into the final part of the human journey, end of life. 
• Sam Creely in collaboration with CalArts alums Yuxin Zhao, Lucinda Trask, Scarlett Kim, Anthony Storniolo, Gio Alonzi, Ana-Cecilia Alvarez, Chelsea Lauren Dright, Lisa Dring, Jess Goldschmidt, Effy Morris, Annie Render, Teo Rivera-Dundas, Hannah Rubin, Char Simpson, Meg Whitford, and Sarah Yanni. 
  DanceNotes Chaplet Series is a publishing project co-founded and edited by Sam Creely and Patricia Sazani that leans into dance’s historically unsuccessful relationship with written documentation. If notation is an instrument for comprehension, preservation, and iteration, DanceNotes is an experiment in notation dedicated to refractory, malleable, and plural knowledges, and to re-contextualized genealogies of movement. 
• Michelle Roshanzamir 
  Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021
   

Spring 2020 Graphic Design Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Ania Diakoff (Art MFA 11)
  This book is planned as a primer for very young children (ages 0-6) about various metaphysical phenomena. Its intention is to be a tool that can help parents begin the conversation with their children about spirituality and the wonder of our energetic world. Key phrases such as “Sun”, “Moon”, “ Flora”, “Light”, “Planets”, etc. will be illustrated with simple paper cut-outs and collage.
• Cristian Hernández (Art BFA 17)
  Cris Hernández Type Foundry: Since completing the Type@Cooper Extended Program (Oct 2018- Aug 2019) Hernández has been on a pursuit to establish his own practice as a typeface designer. He has multiple typefaces in development that are focused in language support (currently Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek with plans for further expansion such as Cherokee) and interactive media.
• Andrew Hogge (Art BFA 01) in collaboration with CalArts alums Daniel Desure, Tim Koh, and Christina Huang. 
  ESP Institute - 10 Year Retrospective: 2020 marks 10 years of music/art collective ESP Institute, and they, alongside their partners Commonwealth Projects, are designing a traveling exhibition including interactive sound installation and an approx 200 page book spanning the 120 musical releases with associated packaging design and ephemera.
• Jessica Kao (Art MFA 15)
  Standing at the Crossroads of Gentrification and Pandemic: South Central Los Angeles: For better "and" worse, South Central Los Angeles, especially around Crenshaw and Leimert Park area, has been facing rapid gentrification. But in the middle of the wave comes coronavirus and shelter-in pace. The community that was already at disadvantage is now standing at a crossroads and not knowing what is to come. Kao uses film photography to record this critical moment—both the atmosphere and soon-to-be-lost street typography during my daily walk (with protection) in the neighborhood.
• Mansi Shah (Art BFA 08)
  Funding for screen-printing, photography, and ceramics equipment to open up Shah’s studio as a resource for the CalArts art/design community. Many artists have lost studio spaces and access to making during this time and Shah is working towards facilitating production for those affected.
• Dameon Waggoner (Art MFA 18) in collaboration with CalArts alum John Hogan. 
  Design Book: The Word Crap Can Refer to Both Art & Trash: John Hogan Studio Manager Flyers: CalArts 2006-2020
  After attending John Hogan's performance, "Permanent Staff Lecture" last year, Waggoner was struck by Hogan's prolific output of acerbically witty flyers he had created over the previous 14 years at CalArts. Waggoner approached Hogan about creating a publication to document the flyers he created from 2006-2020. Hogan agreed, and they have begun the initial scanning and design process. The book will include 50+ flyers, writings from John and other notable alumnx.  

Fall 2019 Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Emily Call in collaboration with a CalArts alums Sean Deyoe, Carmina Escobar, Madeline Falcone, Julia Holter, Betsy Rettig, Laura Steenberge, and Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts David Rosenboom. 
  Isaura String Quartet presents: hum, an immersive concert, hum brings together CalArts artists from music, theater, visual arts, and creative tech to explore unexpected transformations. 
  Additional links: https://www.redcat.org/event/isaura-string-quartet-hum

• Andrea Gise Knowlton in collaboration with CalArts alums Justin Scheid, Shane Raiford, Bryanna Brock, and Dina Lasso. 
  This Land: A choreographic work at the intersection of border politics and environmental crisis. It explores town lines, party lines, scarcity and privilege. This work will receive its west coast premiere as part of a split bill show, shared with Rebecca Lemme    
  Additional links: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jKVNu6WlK0YuvmQ93N53IOkwRmg7oJl9

• Christine Marie in collaboration with CalArts alum Daniel Corral. 
  (antiquated) Augmented Reality: Section II showcases 40-foot shadows of dancers that breakthrough to become fully dimensional in a vivid, real-time, analog 3D, celebratory defiance of the Male Gaze that dominated 20th-century media.
  Additional links: http://spinalfrog.com/piece/antiquated-augmented-reality

• Luke Martin in collaboration with CalArts alums Aaron Foster Breilyn, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, and CalArts faculty Michael Pisaro. 
  The Co-Incidence Festival (2020) is based on an expanded view art and music. Following Black Mountain College, it brings together radical artists to take part in an event curated as social sculpture.

• Laura Sofia Perez    
  How to Love a Place so the Children Will Love their Land is based on the significant narrative contrasts found between history books and more recent anthropological studies regarding the wiping of Puerto Rico’s indigenous people; a video installation composed of interviews and images of the island’s natural landscapes.

• Kalean Ung in collaboration with CalArts alums Marina McClure, Hsuan Kuang Hsieh, Chu-hsuan Chang, Mark Kanieff, and Beryl Brachman
  Letters From Home is an interdisciplinary solo theatre performance that uses multimedia practices to tell the story of a Cambodian-American woman as she explores her connection to her family, her legacy, and the art of her father.
  Additional links: http://theatreghost.org/?p=2562

Spring 2019 Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Fernando Belo in collaboration with Valentina Pelayo.
  República Madalena is a short documentary about student housing at the University of São by the Brazilian military government in the '60s.  

• Kathryn Falcone    
  The Reapers at Woodbrock is a new play written by local playwright Mardee Bennett and produced by CalArts alum Kathryn Falcone through her theatre company The Collaborative Theater. This script delves into Baltimore community and the importance of history and family legacy.
• Rafael Luna in collaboration with CalArts alums Jason Oberman, and Serena Hughes.
  A Shift in Color is a project consisting of a 5 track EP of original compositions for flute and guitar. Experimental animator Serena Hughes will create album art based off of the music.
• Jody Zellen in collaboration with CalArts alum Brian Moss.
  What's on Los Angeles is a mobile-friendly website and mobile app offering a comprehensive weekly listing of local arts exhibitions, openings, and closings in Los Angeles.  
• Heidi Jo Gilbert in collaboration with CalArts alums Glen Keane, Jennifer Hager, Minkyu Lee, Jenny Lerew, Adrian Molina, Steven Mcleod, Joel Crawford, John Sanford, and Craig McCracken.
  Podcast: a section of animation drawings from the song 'Part of Your World' were stolen in the 1990's. This podcast will leverage CalArts alumni to locate and restore the drawings to their creator, Glen Keane, exploring both his and the song's impact on the next generation of the animation industry.

Fall 2018 Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Harold Abramowitz    
  RAD! Residencies is a new critical-creative literary series that hosts writers to participate in three related events over a defined period of time. It is centered around a question or theme that they are currently exploring in their work to create a community around urgent topics.
• Soyeon Kim in collaboration with CalArts alum Tom Hemker.
  The Sun and The Wind is a short narrative film that is part of an on-going production. Based on the moral in Aesop's fable, "kindness effects more than severity," this film introduces the plot of a dispute between the Sun and the Wind to figure out the superiority between the two.
• Edda Kelly in collaboration with CalArts alums Ariel Hart, and Vashti Harrison.
  Books for Babes is an arts festival aimed at highlighting female artists via providing children's feminist books to underprivileged women in shelters.
• Shaina Simmons in collaboration with CalArts alums Julian Karahalios, Monty Cole, Andrew Lish, and Neha Sobti.
  Shaina Shaina is filming the pilot for the second season of the web series Shaina Shaina. It is a comedic series at the intersections of being black, a woman, and living in the 45 era.    
• Lucas Martin in collaboration with CalArts alums Aaron Foster Breilyn, Ben Levinson, and Amy Golden
  Co-Incidence is a music festival based on an expanded view of art and music. Following Black Mt. College, it brings together radical artists to take part in an event curated as a social sculpture.    

Spring 2018 Alumnx Council Grant Awardees

• Joanna Swan in collaboration with CalArts alums John Martin, Darcy Huebler, Kayla Ephros, Nathalie Casagram Lopez, John Olivo, and Zach Vidal.
  Open Drawing is a drawing session for introspective, collaborative, and nonjudgmental art making.  
• Hanul Bahm in collaboration with CalArts alum Fabian Euresti.
  Detonator is a CalArts alumni-driven online arts discovery portal and digital zine.  
• Alexis MacNab in collaboration with CalArts alums Thadeus Reed, Tane Kawasaki, Sam Breen, Hilario Saavedra, Caitlyn Conlin, Ryan Masson, Nikhil Pai, Nora King, Jacob Gibson, Erica Carpenter, and Nils Jansson.
  Home combines puppetry, video design, and physical theater to explore themes of exile, transience, and displacement.  
• Daniel McNamara    
  Mobile Object for Drawing (MOD) is a mobile live-animation projection device, at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference.  
• Yanyu Dong in collaboration with CalArts alums Rajee Samarasinghe, Yu Chen, Aashish Khan, Pin-Hua Chen, and CalArts faculty John Hawk.
  Ayesha is an imaginary biography of my mother who, in her youth, dreamed of being a Bollywood dancer. In a lush fantasy through India, I reclaim her destiny and desires lost in another age.  

Fall 2017 Alumnx Council Grant Winners

• John Henningsen in collaboration with CalArts alums Alison Keating, Jesse Garrison, and Zach Davidson.
  Galleria was a massive undertaking involving the collaboration of 8 musicians, crossing the disciplines of music, sculpture, performance, writing, and costuming. This subject matter focuses directly on Indigenous, specifically Oglala Lakota, epistemologies through the investigation.   
• Alison Keating    
  Wild Art Group is an arts company created to give post-graduate CalArts artists an opportunity to show and experiment with works in progress. 
• Suzanne Kite in collaboration with CalArts faculty Eyvind King, and CalArts alums Kemancheh, Marilu Donovan, Matthew Clough Hunter, Matthew Allen, Hannah Lawton, Mint Park, and Devin Ronneberg. 
  Everything I Say is True was a massive undertaking involving the collaboration of 8 musicians, crossing the disciplines of music, sculpture, performance, writing, and costuming. This subject matter focuses directly on Indigenous, specifically Oglala Lakota, epistemologies through the investigation.
• Kestrel Leah in collaboration with CalArts alums Brigette Dunn-Korpela, Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, David Moyer, Nathan Nonhof, Craig Gibson, and Emma Green. 
  Alarm is highly inter-disciplinary, combining a wide range of different artistic skills and cultural perspectives. In response to racial and economic segregation and rising tendencies of nationalism, we make a conscious effort to foster international collaboration.  
• Dany Naierman in collaboration with CalArts alums Tanya Orellana, Rose Malone, and Alexandra Escobar.
  Port Capa: Layers Become Landscapes originated as a New Works Festival 2017 show, and continues as an integral CalArts endeavor. There are hints that we will form a company, and our connection to teach other and the CalArts community is stronger every day.