By Ravi Rajan, President California Institute of the Arts and Travis Preston, Dean of the CalArts School of Theater and Artistic Director of the CalArts Center for New Performance   The space of art is one that, at its best, leads society into seeing its own future. While change is difficult, it...

“Groundworks,” a new documentary by California Institute of the Arts alums Justine Garrett (Critical Studies MFA 2006) and Ian Garrett (Theater MFA 2008), airs on multiple U.S. public television stations this month. In Southern California the film was broadcast on KCET on Tuesday, Oct. 4...

Two recent graduates of California Institute of the Arts MFA Experimental Animation Program, Moon (Yuezhu) Wang and Dairys Escoto De León, have been selected for the 2022-23 Association for Independent Colleges of Art and Design Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowships. They and the four other recipients...

The 23rd season of KCET’s Fine Cut Festival of Films kicked off Wednesday, Sept. 21, with recent California Institute of the Arts graduate Adam Musa Othman (Film/Video BFA 2022) taking home Best Animation for his short “Horned Cook, Gola.” Othman, as well as several other CalArtian animators,...

As California Institute of the Arts 2022-23 academic year kicked off on Sept. 12, 27 artists have joined CalArts as new regular faculty members. The roster of new faculty, several of whom have had prior academic appointments at CalArts, span all of CalArt’s six schools and the Library. The CalArts...

California Institute of the Arts School of Theater faculty Bart DeLorenzo will direct the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s Los Angeles premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” running now through Sunday, Oct. 23 at the company theater in Los Angeles. DeLorenzo directs Richard Eyre’s “electrifying”...

California Institute for the Arts Center for New Performance kicks off its 20th anniversary season on Thursday, Sept. 29, with the world premiere of “Scene with Cranes,” written by acclaimed playwright Octavio Solis, directed by Chi-wang Yang. It will run from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, at...

The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the professional association for design now known as AIGA, has named California Institute of the Arts School of Art faculty Louise Sandhaus (Art BFA 1993, MFA 1994) one of three 2022 AIGA Medalists, honored for contributions to the field of design. The AIGA Medal...

California Institute of the Arts alum, Academy Award-winning director, animator and art director Ralph Eggleston (Film/Video 1986), celebrated as a “cornerstone of Pixar’s visual style” by Cartoon Brew, died Monday, Aug. 29. He was 56. Eggleston died in San Rafael, of pancreatic cancer, according...

The New Arts Foundation presents High as the Sky, a group art show running Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 20 and Aug. 21, at the historic Great Hall/Long Hall in West Hollywood. The foundation, founded by California Institute of the Arts alum Greg Jenkins (Film/Video MFA 2022), is a curatorial project and...