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Artists from CalArts and Academia Nacional de Artes San Alejandro in La Habana (Havana), Cuba, continued their collaboration on their exhibition series, El Acercamiento/The Approach, in Cuba this week. 

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CalArts President Steven D. Lavine joined more than 100 other college and university presidents from public and private institutions in signing an open letter to uphold and continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The leaders cite the “moral...

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Today, January 18, 2017, California Institute of the Arts stands with many colleges and universities across the nation in declaring itself a sanctuary campus. This declaration is made out of respect and in solidarity with our students, staff, faculty, and community members, with particular...

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Ravi S. Rajan, Dean of the School of the Arts at Purchase College, and a highly regarded artist whose work reaches across disciplines, has been selected as the fourth president of California Institute of the Arts. Rajan begins his tenure June 1, 2017.

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Background: Ranked as America’s top college for students in the arts by Newsweek/The Daily Beast, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) has set the pace for educating professional artists since 1970. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six...

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