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Celebrated author Colum McCann and CalArts MFA student Silvi Naçi Receive the 2019 Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in the Storytelling Arts.

On Wednesday, March 13, at The Sotomayor School for Science and Art, CalArts Center for New Performance will present the world premiere of Finding Shelter. 

Mark Murphy has announced his decision to leave REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), the California Institute of the Arts’ contemporary performing arts and exhibition space located in The Walt Disney Concert Hall, at the end of the 2018/2019 season, in order to focus his attention...

Since the category of Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2001, 11 of the winning films were directed by alumni of CalArts’s renowned animation programs. 

This exhibition springs from The House of Dust, a seminal yet under-recognized late 1960s work by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. This intermedia piece serves as an entry point into contemporary investigation of the relationships between architecture, technology, and performance.

 Brown, Young’s most recent book of poetry, was called “a universal shout—political in the best, most visceral way—while remaining at the same time deeply and lovingly personal” by the New York Times. 

 Hedda Gabler is the first School of Theater MFA production of the school year, running November 2-10 in Ensemble Room II, E407. Director Jesse Bonnell  (MFA2 Directing) leads an all-CalArts cast and crew in Henrik Ibsen's classic modern drama. The...