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California Plant of the Arts is renowned internationally every bit a game-changer in the education of professional artists. The transformative cultural impact of our alumni shows why: Nosotros bring out visionary artistic talent unlike whatever other university, school or conservatory. An all-inclusive community for a diverseness of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

The Peabody Award Board of Jurors has recently announced 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 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 let the schools to collaborate and influence each other through student and faculty exchanges.

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Player and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his 2nd Grammy Honor at Dominicus dark's ceremony in Las Vegas...

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

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CalArts has been named ane 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 information technology was eligible in its 2022 Animation Schoolhouse Rankings.

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Alumni Stories

Past the fourth dimension 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 forward saying, "Yeah, you lot are capable and prepare to practice other things. Yep,...

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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 work and acquire to comprise a personal voice into what I was making. When I looked into the MFA Graphic Blueprint Programme at CalArts, I felt inspired by the...

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I call up in that location is a higher level of expectation for an actor-creative person at CalArts than at other places. You're an active participant in making a slice of fine art. When I started, I didn't recollect I had that capacity equally an actor to brand my own work; I didn't sympathize the language....

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When I entered CalArts I thought I was only interested in performing, but ii astonishing 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 as the...

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Like most music students, my background was in classical music. Earlier coming to CalArts I thought I wanted to do studio recordings, DJ-ing and scratching with vinyl records. But when I got here, I realized that the art globe is much larger than I had imagined. In my 2nd year I attended the...

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

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

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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was withal a educatee at CalArts. My kickoff job out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. It ran on Cartoon Network for many seasons and was cool considering I got to make my own mini films. Then, I worked at Nickelodeon every bit 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 serious about directing—about condign the one in accuse. I looked at the CalArts website and found the student work incredibly...

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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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I was inspired to play the violin at age 6 later watching a live performance in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and later my first lesson I knew that the violin was going to be my passion. As I studied the violin, I began to co-operative out from my classical training and started...

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Equally an artist, you realize that everything you've learned in your whole art life will come dorsum at some betoken; it has for me. It'south been amazing how my blueprint training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive pattern in Korea. I was too working every bit a move graphic designer.  Technology is rapidly changing and I wasn't sure how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity as an creative person.  When I decided it was time to pursue...

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At that place's a nifty interest in the voice correct now—throughout the culture—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It's all nigh extending one's ain corporeality. My sound art springs from my concept of the vocalism, which is my primordial musical instrument. I chronicle to the globe...

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

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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 considering by the fourth dimension I visited CalArts, I knew how to exercise small theater. Round iii-fourth thrusts, proscenium arch—that's how you present...

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The 2 nigh important things near the Writing Program for me were the mentorship—being pushed past, and being championed by, faculty—both while I was at CalArts and after I graduated. Besides, 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'southward alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I thought I was but going to make a bunch of short films and graduate and work in the animation industry. I actually give credit to CalArts for beingness this incubator of creativity that led me onto a...

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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, piece of work myself into a corner, and throw myself at building something. What was great most CalArts is that it broke all those habits and proved to me that it wasn't just the labor that...

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When I offset looked into the Fine art & Applied science program at CalArts, I was especially excited to see that non all of the work students in the plan were making could be thought of as explicitly having to do with technology. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos about...

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It was such a swell feeling to be a foreigner at CalArts, knowing that I had the faculty behind me—and the whole student torso, too, trying to help me understand who I was equally an artist. The kinesthesia nurtured the blazon of dancer that I was, and that I am. I'grand v'x" and very...

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My female parent was a pianist and my first piano teacher. I sang as a child, took a break correct around adolescence when my voice dropped, and I began singing again in rock bands when I was fifteen or 16. After some classical training I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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My graduate thesis moving picture was about folklore and ghost stories every bit told through the voices of members of my female parent's family in Trinidad. At that place's an element of narrative in my work, but it's non purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. It's most hands referred to as...

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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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As far as I know this is the merely composer-performer doctorate plan that exists. Information technology'south not a typical dual caste; instead information technology combines the ii notions. As a composer, pianist and a conductor, I was presented with the opportunity to practice all, merging the ideas of analysis, synthesis...

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