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

May 4, 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 adventure-taking, mid-career artists – experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

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

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

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The partnership volition allow the schools to interact and influence each other through student and kinesthesia exchanges.

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Actor and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his second Grammy Laurels at Dominicus night's ceremony in Las Vegas...

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An accomplished ambassador, professor, and curator, Lam will presume the function on July 15, 2022.

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CalArts has been named i of the Fulbright Top 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 #ane ranking in every category for which it was eligible in its 2022 Blitheness Schoolhouse Rankings.

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As an artist, you realize that everything you've learned in your whole art life volition come dorsum at some point; it has for me. Information technology'due south been astonishing how my design training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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

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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. Round three-fourth thrusts, proscenium arch—that'southward how you present...

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At that place'south a great interest in the vox correct now—throughout the culture—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It's all about extending one'due south own corporeality. My sound art springs from my concept of the voice, which is my primordial instrument. I relate to the earth...

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As far as I know this is the simply composer-performer doctorate program 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 practice all, merging the ideas of assay, synthesis...

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I think 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 art. When I started, I didn't think I had that capacity as an histrion to brand my own work; I didn't empathize the language....

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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was still a student at CalArts. My start job out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. It ran on Drawing Network for many seasons and was absurd considering I got to make my own mini films. Then, I worked at Nickelodeon every bit a storyboard revisionist...

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

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It was such a great feeling to exist a greenhorn at CalArts, knowing that I had the kinesthesia behind me—and the whole pupil trunk, likewise, trying to help me understand who I was as an creative person. The faculty nurtured the type of dancer that I was, and that I am. I'k 5'10" and very...

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When I kickoff looked into the Art & Technology program at CalArts, I was especially excited to meet that non all of the work students in the program were making could exist thought of as explicitly having to do with technology. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos nearly...

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

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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 do unlike types of piece of work and learn to incorporate a personal vox 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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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions about how to achieve the kinds of dramatic effects I wanted in my films. The kinesthesia 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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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 serious nearly directing—near becoming the 1 in charge. I looked at the CalArts website and plant the pupil work incredibly...

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I was inspired to play the violin at age vi after watching a live performance in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and after my starting time lesson I knew that the violin was going to exist my passion. Every bit I studied the violin, I began to branch out from my classical training and started...

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The two virtually 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. Too, the peer group with which I'm nonetheless in contact. We had daily workshops; a handful of...

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

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Excerpts from Miwa Matreyek's alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I thought I was merely going to brand a bunch of short films and graduate and work in the animation industry. I really give credit to CalArts for existence this incubator of creativity that led me onto a...

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

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

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By the time I enrolled at CalArts, I had performed for xv years, and was focused on my choreography and instruction. CalArts gave me the fourth dimension, infinite and back up—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me forward saying, "Yes, y'all are capable and ready to do other things. Yes,...

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Earlier I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive design in Korea. I was likewise working as 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 information technology was time to pursue...

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I started working with photography when I was 12 or 13. I used photography and Photoshop every bit 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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Since 2005, I've been part of a shared group space called Betalevel. Information technology'due south not a collective—it's more than of a venue for social experimentation and hands on civilisation that nosotros utilise for readings and other events. Most of our electric current seven members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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As a little girl I wanted to be a painter, but soon realized that textiles and habiliment were my medium. What I honey almost costume design–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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