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California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is pleased to announce New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones as its 2023 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence. Jones, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of My...

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Theater Dean and CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) Executive Artistic Director Travis Preston has been named to the Artistic Committee of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival.

Statement by Ravi Rajan, CalArts President, and Travis Preston, Dean of the School of Theater and Artistic Director of the CalArts Center for New Performance.

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) announces today the appointment of Ann Wiens as its new Vice President for Marketing and Communications. Reporting to CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan, Wiens will begin her work as a member of the Institute’s senior leadership team on Nov. 28, 2022.

CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) kicks off its 20th anniversary season on Thursday, September 29, 2022, with the world premiere of Scene with Cranes, written by acclaimed playwright Octavio Solis, directed by Chi-wang Yang.

Allen will begin his work as a member of the Institute’s senior leadership team on July 11, 2022.

CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) presents a thrilling new work titled Augustine Machine ou Encore Une Nuit d’Insomnie from June 23-25, 2022, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, Paris.

California Institute of the Arts announces that Charmaine Jefferson has been elected Chair of the Board of Trustees.

CalArts will award honorary degrees to legendary jazz musicians and world-renowned artists Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter, and esperanza spalding at the Institute’s May 13 commencement ceremony.

May 4, 2022 marks the 28th annual celebration of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) and as in 2021, doubling of awardees, from five to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists – experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.