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California Institute of the Arts is renowned internationally as a game-changer in the education of professional artists. The transformative cultural bear on of our alumni shows why: We bring out visionary artistic talent unlike any other academy, school or conservatory. An all-inclusive community for a variety of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

May iv, 2022 marks the 28th annual celebration of the Herb Alpert Laurels 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 fine art, their respective disciplines, and lodge.

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

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

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The partnership will allow the schools to interact and influence each other through student and faculty exchanges.

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Actor and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his second Grammy Award at Sunday night's anniversary in Las Vegas...

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An accomplished administrator, professor, and curator, Lam will presume the role on July 15, 2022.

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CalArts has been named one of the Fulbright Peak 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 #1 ranking in every category for which it was eligible in its 2022 Animation School Rankings.

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There'due south a bully interest in the vox right at present—throughout the civilisation—in the arts, in music and philosophy. Information technology's all near extending one'south ain amount. My sound fine art springs from my concept of the vocalism, which is my primordial instrument. I chronicle to the world...

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3 years after finishing my BFA at Carnegie Mellon I decided to change the trajectory of my career. I wanted to practice different types of work and learn to incorporate a personal phonation into what I was making. When I looked into the MFA Graphic Design Programme at CalArts, I felt inspired by the...

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Before coming in to CalArts, I'd been freelancing for clients such as Google, Whole Foods, Facebook, Toyota and Nestlé, only I wanted to get more serious about directing—about condign the one in accuse. I looked at the CalArts website and found the pupil work incredibly...

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Like most music students, my background was in classical music. Before coming to CalArts I thought I wanted to do studio recordings, DJ-ing and scratching with vinyl records. Merely 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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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was nonetheless a student at CalArts. My first task out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. It ran on Cartoon Network for many seasons and was cool because I got to make my own mini films. So, I worked at Nickelodeon as a storyboard revisionist...

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I started working with photography when I was 12 or 13. I used photography and Photoshop equally 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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As a footling girl I wanted to be a painter, just soon realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I honey about costume design–which is different from style–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set, lighting and sound...

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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 broke all those habits and proved to me that information technology wasn't but the labor that...

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The two nearly of import things about the Writing Programme for me were the mentorship—being pushed past, and being championed past, kinesthesia—both while I was at CalArts and afterwards I graduated. Also, the peer group with which I'm still in contact. We had daily workshops; a handful of...

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Excerpts from Miwa Matreyek's alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I idea I was just going to brand a bunch 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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My mother was a pianist and my first pianoforte teacher. I sang as a child, took a suspension right effectually adolescence when my voice dropped, and I began singing again in rock bands when I was 15 or sixteen. Afterward some classical grooming I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive pattern in Korea. I was also working as a motion graphic designer.  Technology 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 fourth dimension to pursue...

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I was inspired to play the violin at age half-dozen after watching a alive operation in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and after my first lesson I knew that the violin was going to be my passion. As I studied the violin, I began to branch out from my classical training and started...

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

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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 exercise all, merging the ideas of assay, synthesis...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions virtually how to accomplish the kinds of dramatic effects I wanted in my films. The faculty 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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When I entered CalArts I thought I was just 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, as well every bit the...

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When I showtime looked into the Art & Technology programme at CalArts, I was especially excited to run into that not all of the work students in the program were making could exist idea of as explicitly having to exercise with technology. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos most...

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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 do small theater. Round 3-fourth thrusts, proscenium curvation—that's how yous present...

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I think there is a higher level of expectation for an actor-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 own work; I didn't understand the language....

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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 & depression tech; Tofighi's work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and (de)formation of information/history to...

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

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It was such a great feeling to be a greenhorn at CalArts, knowing that I had the kinesthesia behind me—and the whole educatee trunk, too, trying to help me understand who I was every bit an creative person. The kinesthesia nurtured the type of dancer that I was, and that I am. I'm 5'10" and very...

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

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

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