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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: We bring out visionary artistic talent unlike whatsoever other university, schoolhouse or conservatory. An all-inclusive community for a diversity of accurate voices, CalArts today offers more 70 comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media and literary arts.

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

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Actor and producer Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86) won his second Grammy Award at Dominicus nighttime'southward anniversary in Las Vegas...

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An accomplished ambassador, professor, and curator, Lam volition presume the role on July 15, 2022.

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CalArts has been named ane of the Fulbright Tiptop 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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Alumni Stories

Since 2005, I've been part of a shared group space called Betalevel. It'south not a commonage—it'due south more of a venue for social experimentation and hands on culture that we use for readings and other events. Most of our current 7 members are grads from the CalArts Writing...

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Information technology was such a swell feeling to be a greenhorn at CalArts, knowing that I had the faculty behind me—and the whole student body, too, trying to assistance me understand who I was equally 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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My graduate thesis motion picture was well-nigh folklore and ghost stories as told through the voices of members of my mother's family in Trinidad. There's an element of narrative in my work, but it'southward not purely narrative; there are no scripts or actors. Information technology'due south well-nigh easily referred to equally...

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I was inspired to play the violin at historic period 6 after watching a live performance 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. Equally I studied the violin, I began to co-operative out from my classical training and started...

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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 constitute images, working with landscapes, animals, and beautiful colors. After visiting CalArts, information technology was initially the community that attracted me. I majored in...

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As an artist, y'all realize that everything you've learned in your whole fine art life will come back at some point; it has for me. It'due south been astonishing how my design training at CalArts has helped me in editorial cartooning for print.

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My female parent was a pianist and my first pianoforte instructor. I sang every bit a child, took a break right effectually adolescence when my voice dropped, and I began singing over again in rock bands when I was fifteen or 16. After some classical grooming I realized how much I enjoyed singing classical music, and at CalArts,...

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As a little girl I wanted to exist a painter, but soon realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I love about costume design–which is dissimilar from manner–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined past a writers, directors, set, lighting and audio...

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When I came to CalArts I had limiting preconceptions about how to reach 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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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 cool considering I got to make my own mini films. Then, I worked at Nickelodeon every bit a storyboard revisionist...

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I came out of my undergrad at Harvard knowing that, if zip else, I could stay in the studio all nighttime, piece of work myself into a corner, and throw myself at edifice something. What was great near CalArts is that it bankrupt all those habits and proved to me that it wasn't just the labor that...

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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 most directing—near condign the one in charge. I looked at the CalArts website and plant the student work incredibly...

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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 dissimilar types of work and acquire to incorporate a personal voice into what I was making. When I looked into the MFA Graphic Design Program at CalArts, I felt inspired by the...

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Before I came to CalArts I studied media and interactive design in Korea. I was also working every bit a motion graphic designer.  Applied science is apace changing and I wasn't certain how this accelerated moment was affecting my identity as an artist.  When I decided it was time to pursue...

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Like nearly music students, my background was in classical music. Before coming to CalArts I thought I wanted to practise 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 year I attended the...

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Excerpts from Miwa Matreyek's alumni story video.   When I started CalArts I thought I was simply going to make a bunch of short films and graduate and 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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Equally far equally I know this is the only composer-performer doctorate program that exists. It's not a typical dual degree; instead it combines the ii notions. Equally 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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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, infinite and back up—with my mentors, faculty and my peers—pushing me forward saying, "Yes, you are capable and ready to do other things. Yes,...

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When I entered CalArts I thought I was only interested in performing, but ii amazing 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, besides equally the...

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I call up there is a college level of expectation for an actor-creative person at CalArts than at other places. You lot're an active participant in making a piece of art. When I started, I didn't call back I had that capacity as an actor to make my own work; I didn't empathise 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, sound, video, emergent & low tech; Tofighi'due south work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and (de)formation of information/history to...

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The two almost important things about the Writing Plan for me were the mentorship—beingness pushed by, and beingness championed by, kinesthesia—both while I was at CalArts and after I graduated. Also, the peer group with which I'1000 still in contact. We had daily workshops; a scattering of...

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When I first looked into the Fine art & Engineering science plan at CalArts, I was peculiarly excited to encounter that non all of the piece of work students in the program were making could be thought of every bit explicitly having to do with applied science. From pneumatic sculptures, to operatic performances, to videos well-nigh...

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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 pocket-sized theater. Round three-fourth thrusts, proscenium arch—that'due south how y'all nowadays...

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There'due south a bang-up interest in the voice right now—throughout the civilization—in the arts, in music and philosophy. It'southward all about extending one's own amount. My sound fine art springs from my concept of the voice, which is my primordial musical instrument. I chronicle to the world...

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