News and Events

The Washington, D.C.-based political newspaper, The Hill, published CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan's opinion piece, 'All good art is political' this past weekend.

Here's a quick peek at move-in day and the start of orientation for new students at CalArts. 

Emmett Till, a young black man, was lynched in Mississippi on Aug. 28, 1955, at the age of 14 after being accused of offending a white woman. The Carolyn Bryant Project, created by Nataki Garrett and Andrea LeBlanc, examines the woman at the heart of Till's tragic...

The National Association of College & University Business Officers will hold their annual conference in Long Beach on July 21-24. As part of their preparation, NACUBO’s national magazine, Business Officer, interviewed executives from schools in the area, including CalArts’s CFO...

The New York Times' bestselling writer Roxane Gay has been named the CalArts Creative Writing Program's 2018 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. 

CalArts Admissions greatly values our applicants and students rights' to call for change by exercising their First Amendment rights. ​Any disciplinary action that our applicants face from peaceful participation in a protest will in no way affect their admission decision. ​

The Women’s March and the March for Our Lives organizations have planned a nationwide school walkout at 10 am on March 14, 2018. CalArts President Ravi Rajan encourages everyone who wants to participate to join him in the walkout to demand real change on gun violence.

For the premiere of Disney/PIXAR’s 'Coco' in France, French television program '50 Minutes Inside' produced a segment on CalArts and the alumni who helped create the animated feature.