CalArts Events

Shaping Inheritance brings together all eight Charles Gaines Fellows across four fellowship cohorts for the first time, exploring how contemporary artists inherit—and transform—the systems that shape our lives. 

The LA Writers’ Workshop Play Reading Series presents  brand-new play readings from local playwrights—Bernardo Cubría, Keiko Green, Christina Pumariega, and Erika Sheffer—at REDCAT. This culminates a year-long commission and workshop process with Center Theatre Group (CTG). Read more...

Opening Reception: September 12, 6-8 PM RSVP

Flesh Witness brings together contemporary artists whose work examines global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Read more...

Experience a live taping of the Jennifer Hudson Show at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank!

Institute vans depart @ 10:15am

Learn about our annual CAREER FAIR as well as advising, internships-for-academic credit, workshops, field trips, classroom visits, our online CalArts community-exclusive job/opportunity board (Compass,) our upcoming D.R.E.A.M.S. pitch competition, resources, and more!

Dive into LA’s pubic art scene, learn about fresh policy moves shaping the city’s creative future. Case Studies: LAX Airport x LA Metro

Daniela Lieja Quintanar on “The Feminist Art Program (1970–75): Cycles of Collectivity”. A Community of Artists: The Lives and Afterlives of CalArts. 

The Ford/Hill Project transforms the Senate testimony of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford into a gripping evening of theater. 
Created by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel, this Waterwell Production is performed by a cast of luminary LA actors. Read more...

Join us for an exclusive advance screening of Forgotten Island at DreamWorks Animation Studios. Following the screening, Director Joel Crawford (F/V BFA 06), Head of Story Steve MacLeod (F/V BFA 07), and Story Artist Tiffany Ford will join us for a Q&A about the making of the film.

As a new school year kicks off, staying healthy is the best way to keep your creative momentum going. Protecting yourself against preventable illnesses means fewer missed studio sessions, rehearsal hours, and campus events—keeping you and our entire community thriving all semester long!

The 2026 Experiments in Electronic Sound offers a platform for musicians and artists whose works blur the boundaries between composition, improvisation, and sound art. The festival follows a rich tradition at CalArts for embracing alternative ways of thinking, being, and creating in relation to electronic sound. By presenting a series of concerts, the Herb Alpert School of Music invites the broader community to come together and share their work.

Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency is a documentary by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens that imagines the Earth as a lover. When lightning ignites the redwood forest surrounding their home in Boulder Creek, longtime partners Beth and Annie are forced to evacuate and their lives are forever transformed. Read more...

WINDWARD brings to life Fogo Island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty in the latest work by Sharon Lockhart. Filmed on the windswept northern face of the remote island off the coast of Newfoundland, the piece is organized by an unseen, persistent force—the breezes that descend uninterrupted from the Arctic. Read more...

Join us for the Business for Artists Conference, a dynamic gathering for artists, creatives, and nonprofit professionals centered on this year’s theme: Adaptability and Resilience in an Evolving Art World. This conference explores how individuals in the arts can sustain and grow their work while navigating shifting industries, audiences and opportunities through real-world insights and shared experiences.

Every order decides what belongs and what is left outside. Order and Its Others listens at the margins through works that organize sound, power, freedom, and collectivity in radically different ways. Read more...