On Friday, April 17, the Writing Now Reading Series introduces “Across Social Distance,” a literary marathon hosted by American performance artist, poet, and School of Critical Studies faculty Gabrielle Civil. Readers include CalArts faculty Michael Leong, Stephen van Dyck (Critical...

On Friday, April 17, the Writing Now Reading Series introduces “Across Social Distance,” a literary marathon hosted by American performance artist, poet, and School of Critical Studies faculty Gabrielle Civil. Readers include faculty member Michael Leong, Stephen van Dyck (Critical...

On Wednesday (April 8), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced the awarding of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships to 175 scholars, artists, and writers. Several CalArts alums and faculty were named among this year’s fellows: Pia Borg (School of Film/Video faculty) ...

Ajay Kapur, associate provost for Creative Technologies and faculty of The Herb Alpert School of Music, was interviewed in a recent Forbes article about the impact of open sourcing on the music industry. Kapur, who also serves as the director of the Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence...

While our travel and activities are restricted amid the coronavirus crisis, there are still plenty of ways to let our minds and imaginations roam free. To help you discover new sources of inspiration, we’ve put together a small selection of films and TV shows that were made by or feature...

In case you missed the January edition of the British avant-garde music magazine The Wire, several notable CalArtians were featured in its year-End List of the Top 50 Releases of 2019 in music.  Computer music pioneer Carl Stone (Music BFA 74) released two albums in 2019, both of which...

Wajatta is John Tejada and Reggie Watts. | Image: The1point8 The musical duo Wajatta—Reggie Watts and CalArts faculty John Tejada—headlines the First Fridays music and science series at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles tomorrow (March 6). They’re...

The New York edition takes place on March 6 and the L.A. edition takes place on March 23. | Image: CalArts School of Theater The School of Theater’s company of 42 graduating actors travels to the bright lights of New York City this week for the 2020 CalArts Actors Showcase. The New...

The house is always haunted. Rosanna Gamson, faculty in The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance, identifies this as one of the big ideas of her dance company Rosanna Gamson/World Wide’s (RGWW) latest theatrical dance piece Sugar Houses. The work, which was recently awarded a National...

Starting Feb. 17, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Mutualities from multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith.  Smith creates work which calls upon poetry, science fiction, non-Western cosmologies and experimental film to engage with Afro-diasporic histories. In 2017, her...