Performance and art space Automata recently announced the six grantees of its 2020 artist residencies, all of whom are CalArtians. In light of COVID-19, the Los Angeles-based Automata devised a new series of individual artist residencies, created to serve artists while group...

During last weekend’s Independence Day holiday, when Americans expected the sky to be filled with fireworks, a coalition of 80 artists sent a fleet of skytypers to fly over detention facilities, immigration courts, borders, and sites of historic relevance. The planes spelled out messages...

CalArts’ 24700 podcast presents a new series that focuses on the Graphic Design Program’s alumnae. Radical Practice features conversations between current students and graduates of the program with distinct professional practices. With members of the class serving as roundtable...

Multidisciplinary artist and recent CalArts graduate stephanie mei huang (Art MFA 20) has organized an online panel discussion with six Asian women artists to discuss how the “yellow woman’s body, historically rendered either invisible or as ‘object,’ is now catapulted...

From July 1-Oct. 4, 2020, M+ Pavillion in Hong Kong, presents Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders, a site-specific reframing of Shirley Tse’s two installations, Negotiated Differences and Playcourt. The artist and CalArts faculty member created the installations to represent Hong Kong in the...

Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, presents Mapping the Collection, a virtual exhibition of American art from the 1960s and ‘70s. The exhibition, which runs from Saturday, June 20 to Sunday, Aug. 23, features the work of several CalArtians.  Mapping the Collection highlights a...

In May, filmmaker Mike Stoltz’s (Film/Video MFA 14) latest film, “Something to Touch That Is Not Ashes or Corruption or Dust,” was included in the feature article, “Seeking a Way to Touch Through Film in a Time of Isolation” by writer Trisha Low in Art in...

Circumstantial Pleasures, the latest film by CalArts School of Theater faculty Lewis Klahr had its world premiere on Feb. 29, 2020, at Light Industry in New York. Soon afterward, theaters were closed because of COVID-19. Rather than wait for the world to reopen, Klahr partnered with the Wexner...

Last week, editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker interviewed visiting faculty Ann Telnaes (Film/Video BFA 85) for Punchlines, his video series on Politico.com. Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, taught the spring 2020 class Commentary Though Cartoons in CalArts’...