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California Plant of the Arts is renowned internationally equally a game-changer in the education of professional artists. The transformative cultural affect of our alumni shows why: We bring out visionary creative talent dissimilar whatever other university, school or conservatory. An spread-out community for a diversity of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

The partnership will allow the schools to interact and influence each other through educatee and kinesthesia exchanges.

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Actor and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his second Grammy Award at Lord's day dark'south ceremony in Las Vegas...

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An accomplished administrator, professor, and curator, Lam will assume the function on July 15, 2022.

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CalArts has been named one of the Fulbright Tiptop Producing Institutions for 2021-22.

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Animation Career Review, an online resource site for those researching careers in animation and related fields, has awarded CalArts the #one ranking in every category for which information technology was eligible in its 2022 Animation School Rankings.

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The program is designed to bring a prestigious writer to campus for a public reading and a classroom visit, and to meet with students.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City announced on Tuesday, Jan. 25, the 63 artists and collectives that volition participate in the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2022: Repose as Information technology's Kept. Several CalArtians are included in the 80th iteration of a series...

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Alumni Stories

Information technology was such a great feeling to be a greenhorn at CalArts, knowing that I had the faculty backside me—and the whole student trunk, too, trying to assistance me sympathise who I was every bit an artist. The faculty nurtured the type of dancer that I was, and that I am. I'm 5'ten" and very...

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I started working with photography when I was 12 or 13. I used photography and Photoshop as a way to create scenes and stories with found images, working with landscapes, animals, and beautiful colors. After visiting CalArts, it was initially the community that attracted me. I majored in...

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Similar well-nigh music students, my background was in classical music. Before coming to CalArts I thought I wanted to practice studio recordings, DJ-ing and scratching with vinyl records. But when I got here, I realized that the art world is much larger than I had imagined. In my second year I attended the...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions nigh how to achieve the kinds of dramatic effects I wanted in my films. The kinesthesia helped past pointing out precisely where I had missed opportunities in editing a scene, or possible moves for the characters that I hadn't...

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I was inspired to play the violin at age 6 later watching a live functioning in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and after my get-go lesson I knew that the violin was going to be my passion. Every bit I studied the violin, I began to branch out from my classical training and started...

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When I entered CalArts I thought I was merely interested in performing, but two amazing teachers and mentors, David Roitstein and Lauren Pratt, widened my scope of possibilities. I learned concert production from Lauren, who hired me to produce the Charlie Haden concert at REDCAT, also every bit the...

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Alan Southward. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, video, emergent & low tech; Tofighi's work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and (de)formation of information/history to...

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Equally a little girl I wanted to be a painter, but before long realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I love about costume design–which is different from mode–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set, lighting and audio...

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I came out of my undergrad at Harvard knowing that, if nothing else, I could stay in the studio all night, work myself into a corner, and throw myself at building something. What was peachy virtually CalArts is that it broke all those habits and proved to me that it wasn't just the labor that...

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Suzan-Lori Parks introduced me to CalArts while I was working for The Public Theater in New York. I wanted the opportunity to aggrandize my horizons because by the time I visited CalArts, I knew how to do small theater. Circular iii-fourth thrusts, proscenium arch—that's how you present...

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Iii years afterwards finishing my BFA at Carnegie Mellon I decided to change the trajectory of my career. I wanted to do different types of work and acquire to incorporate a personal voice into what I was making. When I looked into the MFA Graphic Design Program at CalArts, I felt inspired by the...

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When I first looked into the Art & Technology programme at CalArts, I was especially excited to see that non all of the work students in the program were making could be idea of as explicitly having to do with applied science. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos about...

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By the time I enrolled at CalArts, I had performed for 15 years, and was focused on my choreography and educational activity. CalArts gave me the time, space and support—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me frontward saying, "Aye, you are capable and set to exercise other things. Yes,...

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My female parent was a pianist and my get-go piano teacher. I sang as a child, took a suspension correct around boyhood when my voice dropped, and I began singing again in rock bands when I was 15 or 16. Afterwards some classical training I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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Since 2005, I've been part of a shared group space called Betalevel. It's not a collective—information technology'southward more than of a venue for social experimentation and hands on civilisation that we utilise for readings and other events. Near of our current seven members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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Earlier I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive design in Korea. I was also working as a motion graphic designer.  Technology is chop-chop changing and I wasn't sure how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity every bit an creative person.  When I decided it was time to pursue...

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I think there is a higher level of expectation for an role player-creative person at CalArts than at other places. You lot're an active participant in making a slice of art. When I started, I didn't think I had that capacity as an role player to make my ain piece of work; I didn't understand the language....

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The 2 most important things about the Writing Program for me were the mentorship—being pushed by, and being championed by, kinesthesia—both while I was at CalArts and after I graduated. Also, the peer group with which I'chiliad even so in contact. We had daily workshops; a handful of...

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As an artist, you realize that everything y'all've learned in your whole fine art life will come up back at some point; it has for me. It's been amazing how my design training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was still a student at CalArts. My get-go chore out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. It ran on Drawing Network for many seasons and was cool because I got to make my own mini films. And so, I worked at Nickelodeon as a storyboard revisionist...

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Before coming in to CalArts, I'd been freelancing for clients such as Google, Whole Foods, Facebook, Toyota and Nestlé, but I wanted to get more than serious virtually directing—about becoming the 1 in charge. I looked at the CalArts website and found the student piece of work incredibly...

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There's a nifty interest in the vocalization right now—throughout the culture—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It's all about extending 1's own corporeality. My sound fine art springs from my concept of the voice, which is my primordial instrument. I relate to the world...

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Every bit far every bit I know this is the merely composer-performer doctorate plan that exists. It's non a typical dual degree; instead it combines the two notions. As a composer, pianist and a conductor, I was presented with the opportunity to exercise all, merging the ideas of analysis, synthesis...

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My graduate thesis picture was about sociology and ghost stories as told through the voices of members of my mother's family in Trinidad. At that place'southward an element of narrative in my work, simply it'due south non purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. It's almost easily referred to equally...

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Excerpts from Miwa Matreyek's alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I thought I was only going to make a agglomeration of brusk films and graduate and work in the blitheness industry. I really requite credit to CalArts for beingness this incubator of creativity that led me onto a...

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