News and Events

After a 29-year legacy of leadership, creativity, and innovation, President Steven D. Lavine announces that he will step down in spring 2017.

CalArts faculty and alumni take leading roles in developing Kadenze, an innovative technology platform that provides courses from CalArts, Princeton, Stanford, and other world-class institutions. 

Writer Brian Evenson joins the faculty in the MFA Creative Writing Program.

The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts and the Evelyn Sharp Foundation have commissioned three nationally recognized artists and companies to participate in the second annual Evelyn Sharp/CalArts Summer Choreographic Residency.

The CalArts Schools of Dance and Film/Video announce the winners of the CalArts @ Dance Camera West Emerging Artists Competition.

The CalArts World Music and Dance Festival transports musical traditions from around the globe to Southern California.

Teens in CalArts Community Arts Partnership's Theater Program respond to the influx of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. with the premiere of their work of theater entitled "UAC ETA TBD."

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer roger Reynolds premieres a new work for viola written for CalArts professor of viola and violin, Mark Menzies.

CalArts students create original audiovisual entertainment for a 360-degree viewing environment.

The five bands in Americana Currents, part of California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) Wild Beast Concert Series, exemplify a new breed of young American musicians, influenced equally by American roots music and 21st-century sounds.