Following its first French edition at Luma Arles and Lafayette Anticipations Paris in 2019, Slow Show, conceived and led by The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance Dean Dimitri Chamblas, travels for the first time to Africa. The performance takes place as part of the Dialogues de Corps...

On Friday and Saturday (Dec. 4-5), The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents its annual Winter Dance Concert featuring an ambitious, multitrack, online experience. In partnership with REDCAT, CalArts Dance faculty and students have put together an immersive and imaginative...

Esteemed conceptual artist and School of Art faculty Charles Gaines has been inducted into the National Academy of Design’s (NAD) newest class of National Academicians. Gaines is among the 15 artists and architects selected for the 2020 roster, who will serve as ambassadors of American art...

The Betweens by CalArts School of Dance faculty Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge brings live dance back to Los Angeles. Commissioned by L.A. Dance Project (LADP), The Betweens is a drive-in dance experience performed in the space surrounding LADP’s downtown Los Angeles studios. The...

On Nov. 8, the short film, Vacuum In Front Of You, co-created by Dean of the CalArts School of Critical Studies Amanda Beech and Diann Bauer was released to the public as part of the art project Tegel: Speculations and Propositions.  In 2011, project curators Jaspar Joseph-Lester,...

The third and final part of the School of Art MFA 2020 cohort’s postgraduate exhibition, Time is Out of Joint in a Box, offers a variety of limited-edition artwork available for purchase through Saturday, Oct. 31.  ONE TWO THREE is a limited-edition, three-box set produced...

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, CalArts announced the appointment of Volker Straebel as the next dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts (HASOM) and the new Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music.  A musicologist, composer, curator, and academic leader, Straebel has served as...

Filmmaker and former School of Critical Studies visiting faculty member Travis Wilkerson (Film/Video MFA 01) was recently named in The New Yorker’s list of 62 influential documentaries for his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017). Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?...

The CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) has partnered with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) to present free screenings of the world premiere of the critically acclaimed The Carolyn Bryant Project, available Friday, Oct. 9 to Thursday, Oct. 22 on CNP’s digital platform. The...