Artist, writer, educator and CalArts alum Audrey Chan (Art MFA 07) has been named the first-ever resident artist by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU SoCal).  “Art has long played a vital role in advocacy for change and justice,” said ACLU SoCal...

Gallery nights. Mini-Fridays. Start of the weekend. No matter what you called Thursday nights at CalArts, you knew that each week, there’d be performances, openings, receptions, and surprises for all who attended. While the COVID-19 pandemic put in-person campus activities on pause this...

On Friday, May 15, at 6 pm PDT, CalArts is livestreaming its first-ever Virtual Graduation Ceremony! More than 400 graduates will celebrate the conclusion of their studies at CalArts and be conferred their degrees.  The entire CalArts community —especially our alumni—have...

A new video by the Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad celebrates the impact of late longtime faculty CalArts members James Tenney and John Baldessari (Chouinard 59) on Los Angeles’ art landscape. Organized by faculty Madeline Falcone (Music MFA 13), the video explores...

On Wednesday, April 22, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2020 Artist Project Grants. Among this year’s nine grant awardees is the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).  Established in 2007 by the late CalArts alum and former faculty...

School of Critical Studies faculty Anthony McCann’s nonfiction prose work Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (Bloomsbury) has been named a finalist in the 30th annual Reading the West Book Awards. Shadowlands investigates the 2016 occupation of Oregon’s Malheur...

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...