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California Constitute of the Arts is renowned internationally as a game-changer in the education of professional person artists. The transformative cultural bear on of our alumni shows why: Nosotros bring out visionary creative talent dissimilar any other university, schoolhouse or conservatory. An all-inclusive customs for a diversity of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

May four, 2022 marks the 28th annual celebration of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) and as in 2021, doubling of awardees, from five to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists – experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

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The Peabody Honor Lath of Jurors has recently appear the nominees for the 82nd almanac Peabody Awards, recognizing the "most compelling and empowering stories" broadcasted and screened during 2021.

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In addition to music headliners Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Swedish Firm Mafia, and The Weeknd, the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts...

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The partnership volition allow the schools to collaborate and influence each other through student and faculty exchanges.

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Actor and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his 2d Grammy Honor at Sunday night's ceremony in Las Vegas...

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An achieved 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 Top Producing Institutions for 2021-22.

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

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

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

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My mother was a pianist and my commencement pianoforte teacher. I sang as a child, took a break right around adolescence when my voice dropped, and I began singing once again in rock bands when I was 15 or 16. After some classical grooming I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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My graduate thesis picture was about folklore and ghost stories as told through the voices of members of my female parent's family unit in Trinidad. There'due south an element of narrative in my work, but it's not purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. It'due south most easily referred to every bit...

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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 expand my horizons because by the fourth dimension I visited CalArts, I knew how to practice modest theater. Round three-fourth thrusts, proscenium arch—that's how y'all present...

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive pattern in Korea. I was also working equally a motion graphic designer.  Engineering is rapidly changing and I wasn't sure how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity as an artist.  When I decided it was time to pursue...

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I came out of my undergrad at Harvard knowing that, if zilch else, I could stay in the studio all nighttime, work myself into a corner, and throw myself at edifice something. What was neat about CalArts is that it broke all those habits and proved to me that it wasn't just the labor that...

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

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I was inspired to play the violin at historic period 6 after watching a live functioning in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and after my first lesson I knew that the violin was going to exist my passion. As I studied the violin, I began to branch out from my classical training and started...

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Every bit an artist, yous realize that everything y'all've learned in your whole art life will come back at some point; it has for me. It'south been amazing how my pattern training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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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 body, likewise, trying to help me understand who I was as 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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When I beginning looked into the Art & Technology programme at CalArts, I was peculiarly excited to see that not all of the work students in the program were making could exist thought of every bit explicitly having to do with engineering science. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos about...

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The two most important things about the Writing Programme for me were the mentorship—beingness pushed by, and beingness championed by, kinesthesia—both while I was at CalArts and after I graduated. Also, the peer grouping with which I'thou all the same in contact. We had daily workshops; a handful of...

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Every bit a little girl I wanted to exist a painter, but shortly realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I honey about costume blueprint–which is different from fashion–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set, lighting and sound...

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Excerpts from Miwa Matreyek'due south alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I idea I was merely going to make a agglomeration of short films and graduate and piece of work in the animation industry. I really give credit to CalArts for being this incubator of inventiveness that led me onto a...

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Past the fourth dimension I enrolled at CalArts, I had performed for 15 years, and was focused on my choreography and didactics. CalArts gave me the time, space and support—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me forward saying, "Yep, yous are capable and ready to practise other things. Yep,...

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Every bit far equally I know this is the only composer-performer doctorate programme that exists. It'due south non a typical dual caste; 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 assay, synthesis...

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

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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was still a student at CalArts. My first chore out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. It ran on Cartoon Network for many seasons and was cool because I got to brand my ain mini films. So, I worked at Nickelodeon every bit a storyboard revisionist...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions about how to achieve the kinds of dramatic effects I wanted in my films. The faculty helped by 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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Iii years after finishing my BFA at Carnegie Mellon I decided to change the trajectory of my career. I wanted to exercise different types of work and learn to incorporate a personal voice into what I was making. When I looked into the MFA Graphic Blueprint Program at CalArts, I felt inspired by the...

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Like most music students, my background was in classical music. Before coming to CalArts I idea I wanted to practise studio recordings, DJ-ing and scratching with vinyl records. But when I got hither, I realized that the fine art world is much larger than I had imagined. In my 2d twelvemonth I attended the...

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Since 2005, I've been office of a shared grouping space called Betalevel. It's not a commonage—it's more than of a venue for social experimentation and hands on civilization that we apply for readings and other events. Most of our current seven members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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I call up there is a higher level of expectation for an histrion-artist at CalArts than at other places. You're an active participant in making a piece of fine art. When I started, I didn't think I had that capacity as an actor to make my ain work; I didn't understand the language....

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When I entered CalArts I idea I was simply interested in performing, merely 2 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, as well equally the...

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