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California Constitute of the Arts is renowned internationally as a game-changer in the didactics of professional artists. The transformative cultural impact of our alumni shows why: We bring out visionary artistic talent unlike whatever other university, school or conservatory. An all-inclusive customs for a diversity of authentic voices, CalArts today offers more than 70 comprehensive caste programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

The Peabody Accolade Board of Jurors has recently announced the nominees for the 82nd annual Peabody Awards, recognizing the "near 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 volition let 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 Honour at Lord's day dark'south anniversary in Las Vegas...

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An achieved ambassador, professor, and curator, Lam will assume the role on July 15, 2022.

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CalArts has been named 1 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 #1 ranking in every category for which information technology was eligible in its 2022 Animation School Rankings.

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I retrieve 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 equally an player to make my own work; I didn't understand the linguistic communication....

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Three years after finishing my BFA at Carnegie Mellon I decided to change 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 Design Program at CalArts, I felt inspired past the...

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Since 2005, I've been part of a shared group space called Betalevel. It's not a collective—it'due south more than of a venue for social experimentation and hands on civilisation that we utilise for readings and other events. Most of our electric current vii members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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My female parent was a pianist and my first piano teacher. I sang as a child, took a break right around adolescence when my voice dropped, and I began singing again in rock bands when I was 15 or xvi. Later some classical training I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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Past the time I enrolled at CalArts, I had performed for fifteen years, and was focused on my choreography and pedagogy. CalArts gave me the time, infinite and support—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me frontward proverb, "Yeah, you are capable and ready to do other things. Yes,...

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I started working with photography when I was 12 or thirteen. I used photography and Photoshop as a style 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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My graduate thesis film was nearly folklore and ghost stories as told through the voices of members of my mother's family in Trinidad. There'due south an element of narrative in my work, but it's not purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. Information technology'southward most easily referred to equally...

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When I first looked into the Art & Technology plan at CalArts, I was especially excited to come across that not all of the work students in the programme were making could be thought of every bit explicitly having to do with technology. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos about...

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As a footling girl I wanted to be a painter, but soon realized that textiles and wearable were my medium. What I beloved about costume pattern–which is different from fashion–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set, lighting and audio...

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There's a great interest in the vocalisation right now—throughout the civilisation—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It'due south all about extending one's own corporeality. My sound art springs from my concept of the voice, which is my primordial instrument. I relate to the globe...

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Similar well-nigh 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. But when I got here, I realized that the art world is much larger than I had imagined. In my second yr I attended the...

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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 considering by the time I visited CalArts, I knew how to do small theater. Round three-fourth thrusts, proscenium curvation—that's how yous present...

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive design in Korea. I was likewise working equally a motility graphic designer.  Technology is rapidly irresolute and I wasn't certain how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity every bit an creative person.  When I decided it was time to pursue...

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Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a groundwork in enquiry, operation, 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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I was inspired to play the violin at age half dozen after watching a live functioning in Branson, Missouri. My mom encouraged me to pursue it and afterwards my starting time 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 preparation and started...

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Every bit an creative person, you lot realize that everything you've learned in your whole art life will come dorsum at some point; it has for me. It's been amazing how my pattern grooming at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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As far as I know this is the merely composer-performer doctorate plan that exists. It'south non a typical dual degree; instead information technology combines the two notions. Equally a composer, pianist and a conductor, I was presented with the opportunity to exercise all, merging the ideas of analysis, synthesis...

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I was pitching ideas for shows while I was nonetheless a student at CalArts. My first job out was on Warner Bros.' MAD. Information technology ran on Drawing Network for many seasons and was cool considering I got to make my own mini films. And then, I worked at Nickelodeon as a storyboard revisionist...

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When I entered CalArts I idea I was but 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, every bit well equally the...

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The 2 about important things about the Writing Programme for me were the mentorship—being pushed by, and being championed by, faculty—both while I was at CalArts and after I graduated. As well, the peer group with which I'1000 all the same 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 idea I was just going to make a agglomeration of short films and graduate and piece of work in the blitheness industry. I really give credit to CalArts for being this incubator of creativity that led me onto a...

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

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It was such a great feeling to be a foreigner at CalArts, knowing that I had the faculty behind me—and the whole student body, too, 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'g 5'10" and very...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions about how to accomplish 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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I came out of my undergrad at Harvard knowing that, if nothing else, I could stay in the studio all night, work myself into a corner, and throw myself at edifice something. What was great about CalArts is that it broke all those habits and proved to me that information technology wasn't merely the labor that...

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