News and Events

Earlier this week, we honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose sense of justice, forgiveness, solidarity, courage, compassion, dignity, humility, and service to others reflect values CalArtians hold very close to their hearts. 

He might have just had a long day of rehearsals prepping for a performance at the Paris Internationale art fair, yet Dimitri Chamblas is energized as he talks about his new role. The 42-year-old took over this year as dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at the California Institute of...

'The Hendrix Project' begins its world premiere run this week (Jan. 11-14) at the  Under the Radar Festival in New York. Performances take place at the BRIC House in Brooklyn.

Variety magazine published a Dec. 8 story about CalArts' CAP, and visited the current animation class at Susan Miller Dorsey High School to examine CalArts' long-term commitment to children and communities.

Check here for updates on the fire situation in Southern California and Santa Clarita.

CalArts Aesthetics and Politics Program presents 'Art and the Long Downturn' on Friday, Dec. 1, with Sarah Brouillette, Jasper Bernes, Annie McClanahan and Michael Szalay.

This past summer, two teams of students from CalArts School of Critical Studies and the Experimental Animation Program in the School of Film/Video, competed in the BioDesign Challenge at the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) in New York.

Cinematic Voices screens Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by film great Chantal Akerman.

Leighton Pierce, Dean of the School of Film/Video, takes the Cinematic Voices screening through some of his early and recent work in video and film describing a fresh arc through it all, from the point of the his current works in progress.