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California Institute 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 creative talent dissimilar any other academy, school or conservatory. An spread-out community for a diversity of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than than 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

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

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The Peabody Accolade 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 add-on 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 pupil and faculty exchanges.

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

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An accomplished administrator, professor, and curator, Lam volition presume the office 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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Blitheness 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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At that place's a keen interest in the voice right now—throughout the culture—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It's all nigh extending one's own amount. My sound art springs from my concept of the voice, which is my primordial instrument. I chronicle to the world...

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Past 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 support—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me frontwards saying, "Yes, y'all are capable and ready to do other things. Yes,...

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive blueprint in Korea. I was too working every bit a motion graphic designer.  Technology is speedily changing and I wasn't certain how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity as an artist.  When I decided it was fourth dimension to pursue...

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I was inspired to play the violin at age half-dozen after watching a live performance in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and subsequently 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 mother was a pianist and my first piano teacher. I sang as a child, took a break correct around boyhood when my vocalism dropped, and I began singing again in rock bands when I was xv or 16. Afterwards some classical training I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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

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When I entered CalArts I thought I was only interested in performing, merely two astonishing teachers and mentors, David Roitstein and Lauren Pratt, widened my scope of possibilities. I learned concert product from Lauren, who hired me to produce the Charlie Haden concert at REDCAT, as well equally the...

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

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Since 2005, I've been role of a shared group space called Betalevel. It'south not a commonage—it'southward more than of a venue for social experimentation and hands on culture that nosotros employ for readings and other events. Most of our current vii members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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

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I call back 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 art. When I started, I didn't think I had that chapters as an player to make my own piece of work; I didn't understand the language....

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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-scale theater. Round three-4th thrusts, proscenium arch—that'due south how you nowadays...

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Every bit an creative person, you realize that everything you've learned in your whole art life will come up back at some indicate; information technology has for me. Information technology's been amazing how my design training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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Three years after finishing my BFA at Carnegie Mellon I decided to modify the trajectory of my career. I wanted to do 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 past the...

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

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As far every bit I know this is the only composer-performer doctorate program that exists. It's not 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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The two virtually important things about 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. Likewise, the peer grouping 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 nix else, I could stay in the studio all night, 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 just the labor that...

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Similar most music students, my background was in classical music. Earlier coming to CalArts I idea 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 second twelvemonth I attended the...

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My graduate thesis film was about folklore and ghost stories as told through the voices of members of my mother'due south family in Trinidad. There'due south an element of narrative in my work, but information technology's not purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. Information technology's most easily referred to as...

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

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

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As a piffling girl I wanted to be a painter, but soon realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I dear almost costume blueprint–which is different from mode–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set up, lighting and sound...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions about how to achieve the kinds of dramatic furnishings 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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It was such a groovy feeling to be a greenhorn at CalArts, knowing that I had the faculty backside me—and the whole pupil trunk, likewise, trying to help me sympathize who I was as an artist. The faculty nurtured the type of dancer that I was, and that I am. I'm 5'10" and very...

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