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COVER: A performance of excerpts from /peh-LO-Tah/ , with an environment created by shadow theater artist and School of Theater alum Christine Marie. As Artist in Residence, Marie was invited by CalArts’ Center for New Performance (CNP) to develop her vision for the set design.
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THIS PAGE: Dancers Kevin Zambrano and Chenhui Mao performing in The Gate , part of the CalArts Winter Dance Concert.
THIS PAGE: School of Art MFA student Alicia Piller working on a new installation in her studio. All graduate Art students are given individual studios to which they have 24/7 access.
OPPOSITE
OPPOSITE TOP: MFA Performer-Composer Chris Ryan Williams recording original compositions for the CalArts annual Jazz session at Capitol Records. Every spring since 1990, CalArts music students have the rare opportunity to record composi tions by fellow students with the best recording engineers in the world.
BOTTOM: School of Music MFA student Katherine Eikam performs her graduate recital in the Wild Beast. The variable-use, indoor-outdoor music pavilion houses a flexible performance and rehearsal space.
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THIS PAGE: Everything Around You and Yourself in the Middle of It , an MFA Integrated Media thesis
OPPOSITE TOP: MFA Creative Writing student Robert Merritt reads at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, a space founded by CalArtians. OPPOSITE BOTTOM: Students from the School of Film/Video learn with the latest equipment in Advanced Cinematography Techniques.
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by Jackie Aldern and Trey Gilmore.
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The School of Theater’s production of Hamlet , directed by MFA student Scarlett Kim.
ASHLEY HUNT Photography and Media Faculty
OUR STUDENT-CENTERED EDUCATIONAL MODEL MEANS THAT WE’RE ALWAYS TRACKING THE EVOLVING INTERESTS OF OUR STUDENTS—WHAT THEY MIGHT WANT TO EXPRESS BUT MAYBE DON’T YET RECOGNIZE AS SUCH—AND WE HELP THEM FIND THE LANGUAGE AND RESOURCES FOR IT.
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MAKE COMMUNITY
From day one, students at CalArts, which was designed as a radical alternative to standard-issue educational models, find their creative potential unleashed through an atmosphere that’s experimental and collabo rative. Through rigorous critiques to talking fluently about process to cross-genre collabo rations, you and your fellow student artists will grow together as thinkers and as makers. You’ll stretch the limits of your creative abilities and encourage each other to make the world anew. These conversations, these collaborations, these relationships—they will last a lifetime.
MAKE COMMUNITY
THIS PAGE: Every May, in addition to the traditional outdoor graduation ceremony, there is live music and dancing in CalArts’ Main Gallery to celebrate all the gradu ating CalArtians.
OPPOSITE TOP: Graphic Design MFA project, Time Flies, by designers Emma Berliner, Jisoo Han, Xuanyi Lin, and Paul Wheatley. OPPOSITE BOTTOM: Character Animation students draw caricatures of their fellow CalArtians at Gallery Night, held every Thursday. The evening is an opportunity for students to see what artists across the Institute are up to.
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U. S. Students (1,085) from 42 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico American Indian or Alaska Native
0.4 % Asian 8 % African American 4.3 % Hispanic or Latino 12.5 % Total Enrollment
Exchange
(BY THE NUMBERS) U S ETHNIC DIVERSITY
GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONENROLLMENT (Fall 2021) 1,438 66.7 % 33.3 % 0.6 % 71.2 % 28.8 % STUDENT POPULATION
0.1 % White 36 % Two or more races 5.6 % Undeclared 4.2 % 35% STUDENTS OF COLOR 10 MAKE COMMUNITY
Undergraduate Students (959) BFA, Certificate Average age 21 Graduate Students (479) MFA, MA, DMA, Adv. Cert Average age 28
Students (9)
Int'l Students (435) from 56 countries
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
GENDER 54.8 % Female 34.8 % Male 10.4 % Other gender or undisclosed STUDENT : FACULTY RATIO 7:1 CLASS SIZES 92.8 % 2-20 students, excluding individual lessons and independent studies 7.2 % of all classes (20+ students) DISTRIBUTION BY SCHOOL 21.4 % Art 3.4 % Critical Studies 5.5 % Dance 27.7 % Film/Video 21.8 % Music 20.1 % Theater 11 CALARTS.EDU
BE PART OF A LEGACY
Walt Disney’s original vision—all the arts colliding under one roof—served as the catalyst for what today is considered one of the most radical experiments in arts education. An open-ended, experiencebased pedagogy is the foundation of CalArts— disciplines exploding and expanded upon, art imitating life, the personal as political as art. From its inception, CalArts set out to be something more than just a school— a truly interconnected community of artists. In the half century since its founding, a generation of the Institute’s alumni have set the leading edge of contemporary visual and performing arts practice—from conceptualism to feminist art and design through the Pixar revolution, from interdisciplinary performance to the latest experiments in interactive media, hybrid arts, and immersive experiences to social justice and public practice. Today, the utopian experiment has grown into a world-
WHILE YOU MAKE THE FUTURE
renowned institution—a place where the history of the avant-garde meets the futuristic landscape of 21st century creative practice.
The act of creativity is at the forefront of reshaping the world, and many of our current students and alumni surface and resurface as potent examples of how art can change the world. You will be among them. You will make our history.
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The history of CalArts is legendary. What defines it is the people—our students and faculty—from celebrated former faculty Jules Engel and Wadada Leo Smith expanding the minds of young artists to community-building-as-art like the Womanhouse feminist collective.
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OPPOSITE PAGE: Car Plays , a series of short, intimate performance pieces in and around cars as part of the New Works Festival (NWF). The yearly NWF is a student-run event that fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration and risk-taking.
THIS PAGE: Dancer Emara Neymour-Jackson performing in Camping , held at Centre National de la Danse in Paris, France.
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2018–2019, 2021–2022
More than 145 CalArts alumni and students participated in the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) as teaching artists
CalArts has hosted more than 200 visiting artists on campus, from curator Erin Christovale to rapper and songwriter Kurtis Blow
in-house publications and 1 radio station: KCIA
More than 800 students attended individual advising appointments, coursework, employer events, and career-related workshops offered by the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work
Alumni Council awarded 10 seed grants for new works celebrating collaboration, experimentation, and diversity
student exchange programs The alumni network is 20,000 strong and growing
900 + events on campus, from gallery exhibitions to music, dance, and theater performances to film screenings and readings 7:1 student to faculty ratio 35 % students of color 32 student clubs/organizations, including 7 student identity groups $ 25.7 MILLION in Institute scholarship to 95% of degree-seeking students 17 full-tuition scholarships
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BOTTOM: MFA Art and Technology students work side by side and exchange ideas in a studio class. As with all métiers, students in the program are encouraged to innovate and engage with multiple disciplines and diverse practices.
TOP LEFT: School of Theater students participate in a workshop with CNP Artist in Residence, Phantom Limb Company. Aligned with the general ethos of CalArts, these workshops focus on the collaborative nature of theatrical production and design.
TOP RIGHT: MFA students performing at a Composition and Experimental Sound Practices concert in Roy O. Disney Music Hall. For all CalArts music artists, making work and presenting it in concert or site-specific context is key, with the spirit of collaboration producing a rich environment for experimentation.
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TOM LEESER Art and Technology Faculty
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TO CREATE A SET OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTUAL SKILLS THAT ARE FUTURE-PROOF, WHEREAS THE PHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FUTUREPROOF. IT’S ALWAYS CHANGING, ALWAYS IN FLUX. WE WANT STUDENTS TO GRADUATE READY TO EXPAND ON THE FOUNDATION THEY BUILD HERE—TO CONTINUE LEARNING, TO CONTINUE BUILDING. AND THAT IS A LIFE QUESTION.
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OPPOSITE PAGE TOP: An installation by BFA Art
A402 Gallery. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM: CNP’s production of Fantômas: Revenge of the Image , directed by School of Theater
THIS PAGE: MFA Performer-Composer student Chris Ryan Williams performs his recital of Mehahn , an interdisciplinary installation he curated, featuring CalArts students from the Film/Video, Dance, and Music schools.
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student Matthew Wilkinson in the
Dean Travis Preston.
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AT CALARTS WE ARE ALL WORKING PROFESSIONALS WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ACROSS A VARIETY OF MEDIA. OURS IS A TRULY GLOBAL NETWORK OF ARTISTS AT THE FOREFRONT OF CREATIVE INNOVATION. AND THIS COMMUNITY WILL BE YOUR HOME LONG AFTER YOU GRADUATE. TRAVIS PRESTON Dean, Theater “ “ 20 MAKE COMMUNITY
On its 50th anniversary, founding CalArts faculty Alison Knowles’ landmark House of Dust project was reborn as Reframing the House of Dust. The yearlong initiative invited CalArts students across métiers, faculty, and visiting scholars to explore and respond to the project. It served as a site for readings, performances, and installa tions, and as a focal point for courses on Fluxus, experimental architecture, and local housing issues.
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OPPOSITE PAGE:
THIS PAGE TOP: The Hendrix Project , a School of Theater production, directed
THIS PAGE BOTTOM: Thursday Night Gallery Opening.
by guest artist and former CalArts faculty Roger Guenveur Smith.
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An Experimental Sound Practices concert in the Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, featuring sonic explorations with mobile technology.
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REFINE YOUR VISION
At CalArts, you will quickly discover a culture of risk-taking and experimentation. You will learn to question the status quo and its underlying structures. Through consideration of historical, social, and political contexts, and alongside skill-building, you will develop your own unique approach to artmaking and graduate with the confidence to shape a dynamic future.
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RECENT VISITORS INCLUDE:
Ron
Anna
Rikki
Young
Benjamin
Reza
Tino
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Athey Sean Baker Alessandra Belloni Ray Brassier Réka Bucsi
Bulbrook Boris Charmatz Nels Cline Sarah Davachi
Ducornet Miguel Gutierrez Lily Hoang Fanny Howe Chris Kraus
Joon Kwak Pamela M. Lee James Mangold Lucrecia Martel
Millepied Ali Shaheed Muhammad John Musker
Negarestani Patrick Osborne Laura Poitras Rubberlegz
Sehgal Steven Shaviro Jim Shaw Kerry Tribe Saya Woolfalk
Visiting Artist Claudio Caldini instructs School of Film/Video students on proper camera setup. OPPOSITE BOTTOM: Philosopher Judith Butler speaks with CalArts students after a talk she gave as Theorist in Residence, an initiative of the MA Aesthetics and Politics Program.
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PAGE: Guest artist Francisco Laranjo and faculty Colin Frazer speak with Graphic Design students as part of the School of Art Visiting Designers workshop, Design As Criticism.
THE PROGRAMS
SCHOOL OF ART
ART BFA, MFA
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA BFA, MFA
ART AND TECHNOLOGY MFA GRAPHIC DESIGN BFA, MFA
SCHOOL OF CRITICAL STUDIES
CREATIVE WRITING MFA AESTHETICS AND POLITICS MA
THE SHARON DISNEY LUND SCHOOL OF DANCE
PROGRAM IN DANCE BFA
PROGRAM IN CHOREOGRAPHY MFA
SCHOOL OF FILM/VIDEO
FILM AND VIDEO BFA, MFA
CHARACTER ANIMATION BFA
EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION BFA, MFA
FILM DIRECTING MFA
THE HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
PERFORMER-COMPOSER BFA, MFA, DMA COMPOSITION AND EXPERIMENTAL SOUND PRACTICES BFA, MFA JAZZ BFA, MFA
INSTRUMENTALARTS:
Winds BFA, MFA Brass BFA, MFA Percussion BFA, MFA Guitar BFA, MFA Harp BFA, MFA Piano/Keyboard BFA, MFA Collaborative Keyboard MFA Strings BFA, MFA
VOICEARTS BFA, MFA
WORLD MUSIC: World Music Performance BFA African Music and Dance MFA Balinese and Javanese Music and Dance MFA North Indian Music MFA World Percussion MFA
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY: Interaction, Intelligence, & Design BFA, MFA
EXPERIMENTAL POP BFA
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SCHOOL OF THEATER
Performance: ACTING BFA, MFA DIRECTING MFA
Experience Design and Production:
EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BFA with specializations in: Scene Design Costume Design Experience Design Lighting Design Sound Design Stage Management Technical Direction
EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION MFA with specializations in: Interactive Media for Performance Costume Design Lighting Design Producing Scene Design Sound Design Stage Management Technical Direction
INTERDISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES
INTERSCHOOL DEGREES
Available by application to a small number of artists whose advanced work warrants study in two programs in different CalArts Schools.
INTEGRATED MEDIA CONCENTRATION
Offered by many graduate programs, the con centration is designed for artists who wish to combine their core exploration of interdis ciplinary practices, participatory media, and interactive technologies.
MINORS BFA
Digital Arts Music Theory Critical Studies: Creative Writing Humanities Social Sciences Cultural Studies Science and Math
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BFA GENERAL STUDIES
If you’re a CalArts undergraduate, you’ll be required to complete a set of general edu cation courses to help build up the broad knowledge base and the analytical, critical reasoning, and communication skills essential for sustainable careers in the arts. The cur riculum works to spark independent thinking, intellectual exploration, experimentation, and critical speculation among you and your fellow student artists across the spectrum of disciplines.
SELECTED GENERAL STUDIES COURSES: What Makes It Art? Letters & Conversations Artspeak 1 Feminist Text(ile) Practices Global Queer Cinema Buying and Selling of L.A. Infrastructure & Climate Memory, Media, & the City Imagined Asias: Race & Media Parallel Worlds Dust Tracks: Black Women, Mobility, & Cinema Latin/x/o/a/@:i.d.& entities Number, Numeral, Shape, and Structure Art, Critique, Power Biology of Human Disease Thinking Machines Biodiversity and Conservation Pedagogy: Teaching Artistry Decolonizing Justice Intro to Programming I Jazz History Intro to Critical Dance American Drama Now REFINE YOUR VISION 28
THE CLASSES AND CURRICULUM ARE ONLY PART OF THE EXPERIENCE. THE OTHER PART IS THIS IN-DEPTH, INTIMATE CONVERSATION YOU HAVE WITH YOUR FACULTY MENTOR OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR STUDIES. THAT RELATIONSHIP IS 10 PERCENT ADMINISTRATIVE AND 90 PERCENT A COMPREHENSIVE AESTHETIC INVESTIGATION OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY. ABIGAIL SEVERANCE Dean, Film/Video “ “ 29 CALARTS.EDU
BE AT HOME
Designed around the needs of the student artist, the CalArts campus will ensure your artistic and academic life flourishes. Our naturally collaborative atmosphere allows for creative and personal freedom, and our vitality arises from both diversity of thought and shared experiences.
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STUDENT AFFAIRS
The qualities that make CalArts such an ideal place in which to realize creativity—an appre ciation of difference—is reflected in our community at large. We embrace multiplicity of world views, experiences, and backgrounds. The environment is safe and supportive, over seen by a dedicated staff in Student Affairs, whose job it is to empower you both as an artist and as a person.
CAMPUS
CalArts is located on 60 acres in Valencia, overlooking the Santa Clarita Valley, just 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. In the center of the secluded campus lies the main building, a bustling activity hub—where students attend classes, share meals and ideas, and absorb the intensity of all the arts colliding under one roof. On the hillsides surrounding this complex are The Wild Beast Music Pavilion, residence halls, and various buildings containing multiple studios, produc tion, and performances spaces. To keep the flow of creativity going, students have 24/7 access to studios, shops, labs, editing suites, and other production facilities during the academic year. Outdoor recreation facilities include a swimming pool; tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts; and a soccer field. Just off-campus are the surrounding commu nities of Santa Clarita, Newhall, Valencia, and Stevenson Ranch—part of the expansive metropolis of Los Angeles.
DINING
The main dining destination is Steve’s Café—an open-air space designed for com munal eating, socializing, studying, group activities, and casual meetings with your fellow students and faculty. The rotating menu accommodates a diversity of tastes, reflecting our community.
Tatum Lounge is our dynamic coffee house, featuring snacks and sandwiches alongside the typical coffee and tea selections. The space also functions as a meeting place, a gallery, and, several nights of the week, as a live performance space for student musicians and performers.
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OPPOSITE LEFT: New students enjoy a BBQ put on by the Students’ Union during Orientation Week. OPPOSITE RIGHT: CalArts students do yoga by the pool outside Chouinard. The Office of Student Affairs, dedicated to supporting the whole student body, offers a variety of wellness activities and services.
THIS PAGE: Students take a break outside Tatum Lounge, an informal gathering place featuring a daytime coffee bar staffed by students.
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RESIDENCE LIFE
Living on campus allows a seamless transition from home to art school. Undergraduates reside in Chouinard, a dormitory-style complex containing Mom’s Café, a game room, and a large swimming pool. Ahmanson Hall offers apartment-style housing in five- or six-bedroom suites. Resident Assistants, returning fellow CalArts students, are on site to help you with any housing issues and to ensure a safe, clean environment. The office also offers guidance and roommate matching services if you prefer to live off-campus.
LOS ANGELES
CalArts is located on the doorstep of Los Angeles—the 21st century hub for global inno vation. Long established as a media center, the area has come into its own in recent years as a world-class arts incubator and destination.
At CalArts, the boundaries between the stu dio, the city, and the world are porous. You will seamlessly move between the classroom experience and the outside world. CalArts alumni are engaged in every corner of Los Angeles, from the more traditional pathways of working in galleries, in advertising, in film and media, to contemporary pathways driving the present creative economies, such as inter action design, VR, immersive experiences, and public performance—where the actual street becomes a theatrical stage, or designed environments become portals into other, more real worlds.
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Dancer Kristin Tims performs in a piece choreographed by School of Dance faculty Dimitri Chamblas at the Los Angeles gallery Hauser & Wirth.
School of Art faculty Harry Gamboa Jr. leads the class, Public Persona, in downtown Los Angeles.
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Dissolving Sights: An Exhibition of Projection Art held at Automata in Chinatown was organized and curated by School of Theater faculty Janie Geiser and featured experimental projection work by CalArtians.
WE LOOK FOR AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO EACH HAVE A STRONG VOICE AND ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE WE WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AS WELL AS FROM THE FACULTY. THE PROGRAMS CULTIVATE AN OPEN, LAB-LIKE EXPERIENCE IN WHICH STUDENTS ARE EXPOSED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORK AND INFLUENCE ONE ANOTHER, EVEN WHEN THEY’RE ALL WORKING IN THEIR OWN DIRECTIONS.
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MAUREEN FURNISS Experimental Animation Faculty
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Art MFA student Lydon Macgregor working in their studio.
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OPPOSITE TOP: School of Film/Video students set up a shot in the Institute’s Permanent Set. OPPOSITE MIDDLE: Aesthetics and Politics student Ani Tatintsyan speaking at WHAP!—the West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series.
OPPOSITE BOTTOM: BFA Musical Arts/Experimental Pop student Zoe Nicole performing her work at the annual Soundstream showcase at the Troubadour rock club in West Hollywood.
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THIS PAGE TOP: Leakages and Anticoagulants , directed by MFA School of Theater student Rachel Park. THIS PAGE BOTTOM: MFA Program in Art installation in a student’s studio.
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Alejandra Moreno Gonzalez performs at her grad recital in the Wild Beast Music Pavilion.
School of Art Thursday Night Gallery opening.
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VoiceArts students in a performance of Rusalka .
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At CalArts, you will be part of a community that creates new pathways of success and innovation.
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CAREER SERVICES
Whether you’re looking for a unique internship, the job of your dreams, or postgraduate cre ative opportunities in your field, a variety of services and initiatives offered at CalArts will help bridge your arts education to a career.
The CalArts Patty Disney Center for Life and Work provides a variety of resources and services for students and alumnx to help our community members, as artists, chart their paths to success and sustain themselves as creative leaders in the world. The Center empowers artists to reach their creative potential by providing workshops, information sessions, an industry speaker series, an annual Career and Opportunity Festival, and a robust internship program. The Center for Life & Work adminis ters the Incubator Program, a yearlong entre preneurship pathway designed to give current CalArts students the leadership, marketing, and management skills needed to start and run their own creative companies and freelancing careers. The Center helps students sustain their art practices for the long term by strategizing multiple tracks of employment and unconventional thinking about managing art, life, and work.
The Office cultivates relationships with recruiters and practicing professionals and develops internship, employment, and recruitment partnerships. It also offers boot camps on topics such as entrepreneurship and proposal writing, as well as how to gener ate a mission statement and showcase your work in the best possible light.
The Center for New Performance, the professional theatrical producing arm of CalArts, offers opportunities for you to work shoulder to shoulder with celebrated artists,
creating a unique platform to help expand your portfolio.
The Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) CalArts Educational Initiative allows you to work directly with a professional WDI mentor to develop themed entertainment projects.
The Portfolio Review is an annual exhi bition of work completed by graduating and continuing Theater students. Arts professionals are invited to campus to experience the extraordinary work of our students in the fields of live performance, interactive media, instal lation, immersive and experience design, and social practice.
Animation Portfolio Day is a yearly opportunity for Animation students to display their work to major studios and have conversations with representatives.
Presented in Los Angeles and New York, the Actors Showcase is an annual program of graduating actor performances for theater, film, and television industry professionals.
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THIS PAGE: An all-CalArtian audience in the Bijou Theater screening the animated film Coco , co-written and directed by Film/Video alum Adrian Molina. The Academy Award–winning film employed a number of CalArts animators and filmmakers. OPPOSITE PAGE TOP: The Not Normal Show , an exhibition featuring the work of BFA and MFA students in the elective course, Graphic Design and Politics.
OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM: Dancers Sam Beckett and Mia Givens in a site-specific solo performed at REDCAT.
CALARTIANS WORK AT:
Apple Art Equity ArtCenter College of Design Cartoon Network Department of State DreamWorks Facebook Getty Museum
Google Hammer Museum Hauser & Wirth Higher Ground Productions Kadenze LACMA LA Philharmonic Los Angeles Opera
LEFT: MFA School of Art student Molly Shea’s first-year show.
PREVIOUS SPREAD
PREVIOUS SPREAD MIDDLE: School of Theater production of Hamlet , directed by MFA student Scarlett Kim.
PREVIOUS SPREAD RIGHT: Reflecting the Institute’s experimental spirit, the CalArts Expo highlights the latest projects from student and faculty that integrate cutting-edge engineering and computer science with visual and performing arts.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art MOCA Natural History Museum Netflix Nike Otis College of Art & Design Pixar UCLA USC The Walt Disney Company Warner Bros Animation Whitney Museum Yale Zyga
THEY BEGIN COLLECTIVES AND BUSINESSES LIKE:
Best Friends Learning Gang Betalevel Brand New School Center for New Music Coaxial Entropy Magazine Family Los Angeles Bookstore Griffith Park Storytelling Series IBEX Puppetry Les Femmes Underground Machine Project Museum of Jurassic Technology Poor Dog Group Post Commodity San Diego Underground Film Festival Scoops Ice Cream Speakeasy Society
THEY ARE AWARDED WITH:
Academy Award Bessie Award Emmy Award Golden Globe Award Guggenheim Fellowship Independent Spirit Award L A Biennial Mohn Award L A Drama Critics Circle Award MacArthur Genius Fellowship NAACP Image Award National Design Award Pulitzer Prize Screen Actors Guild Award Stan Brakhage Award TED Fellowship Tony Award Whiting Writers Award Yale Drama Prize
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LUCIANA ACHUGAR
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
KEVIN ADAMS
ANDREW AHN
RYAN BANCROFT
BRAD BIRD
MARK BRADFORD
ALISON BRIE
CHRIS BUCK
TIM BURTON
CASSILS
RAVEN CHACON
DON CHEADLE
DON MEE CHOI
ERIC KM CLARK
RAVI COLTRANE
ELIZA COUPE
JOHN D’AMICO COLIN DICKEY
PETE DOCTER
LAGANJA ESTRANJA
LAUREN FAUST
THE FORMALIST QUARTET JONATHAN FREDRICKSON GNARWHALLABY
DANA GOURRIER HILARY GREENBAUM
VIRGINIA GRISE
LIZ GLYNN GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
VIRGINIA GRISE
AURORA GUERRERO
JORGE GUTIERREZ
LAUREN HALSEY
ED HARRIS
JACQUES HEIM
STEPHEN HILLENBURG ELIZA HITTMAN
JULIA HOLTER BILL IRWIN ELIZABETH ITO LARS JAN MICHAEL JUNG DOUGLAS KEARNEY MIKE KELLEY ALONZO KING ANNE-MARIE KINNEY ALICE KÖNITZ
GRACE KRILANOVICH GOLDEN KRISHNA
JESSICA KUBZANSKY
JAMES LAPINE KIRSTEN LEPORE JAMES BRANDON LEWIS CHRISTINE MARIE GEOFF MCFETRIDGE DALLAS MCMURRAY MARCO MORANTE JONATHAN NOTARO CATHERINE OPIE
MIKE OTT LAURA OWENS LARI PITTMAN
J.G. QUINTEL CONDOLA RASHAD ELLEN REID PAUL REUBENS DANIEL ROSENBOOM LEON ROTHENBERG DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF HENRY SELICK ANDREW STANTON CECILY STRONG DAWN STOPPIELLO DEBORAH STRATMAN GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY ANN TELNAES
KAARI UPSON MOMO WANG YUANYUAN WANG PENDLETON WARD CARRIE MAE WEEMS JAMES WELLING DAVID WILSON
CALARTIANS MAKE THE FUTURE, ARE THE FUTURE:
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THIS PAGE: The Annual World Music and Dance Festival held at the Wild Beast Concert Hall. The event brings to campus musical traditions from around the world.
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Dancers Terrance Wayne, Kayla Aguila, Nadia Muhammad, and Tetiana Sklyarova perform in The Quarter System , part of the CalArts Spring Dance Concert.
School of Theater production of Kiss written by Guillermo Calderón, directed by MFA student Monty Cole.
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ADMISSIONS
If you are interested in applying to CalArts, begin at calarts.edu/admissions. From there, the admissions process is described in detail at calarts.edu/apply, which also links to the application, portfolio, and audition instructions.
ACCREDITATION
California Institute of the Arts is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission.
CalArts is also an accredited institution member of the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD).
See wscuc.org to learn more about the WASC accreditation process. For information about NASD, see nasd.arts-accredit.org. For CalArts
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