Veronica Alvarez Appointed Director of CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) welcomes Veronica Alvarez, Ed.D as the new Director of the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP). For 29 years, CAP has provided arts education, free of charge, to youth throughout Los Angeles County, often in the... Read More
The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series at REDCAT receives Grant from The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its 2019-20 Season Featuring some of today’s most adventurous independent filmmakers and media artists, each year the Series presents 24 to 28 screenings by experimental international and U.S.-based artists, with the artists themselves attending the majority of screenings. Read More
Michael Leong and Anthony McCann Join CalArts Creative Writing Faculty for Poetry “They bring to this position over twenty years of community and university teaching experience, innovative scholarship, and engaged writing practices across form and genre,” said Tisa Bryant, Director of the Creative Writing Program. Read More
CalArts Dance Dean Dimitri Chamblas Directs Piece for 1,000 Voices for LA Phil’s crowd out Acclaimed dancer and choreographer draws on his expertise with performance in public places to direct a work for singers from communities throughout Los Angeles, as part of LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival Read More
The Herb Alpert Foundation and CalArts Announce the Five 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Recipients The awards recognize artists working in Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. Read More
CalArts Student selected for Hauser & Wirth’s Post-MFA Residency Exchange with Bath Spa University in the UK The coveted Hauser & Wirth Residency Exchange was launched in 2017, and is designed to support emerging artists affiliated with Bath Spa University and CalArts. Read More
CalArts Expo Convenes at the Intersection of the Arts, Technology and Engineering The annual CalArts Expo showcases how art pushes technology, and vice versa. Read More
Linking Arts, Technology and Entrepreneurship: CalArts Presents its First Shark-Tank-Style Pitch Competition CalArts students are taking a new, accelerated 14-week class to take their creative ideas and implement them into fully functional entrepreneurial endeavors. Read More
CalArts Presents the 2019 World Music and Dance Festival 20 free outdoor concerts, featuring music from Japan, Iran, India, Bali, Ghana, Bulgaria, Latin America and beyond, are scheduled from May 3-5 at CalArts. Read More