April 16, 2021 Mercedes Dorame Joins AR Collaboration LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives School of Art visiting faculty Mercedes Dorame is among the cohort of five Los Angeles artists...
April 12, 2021 Online Feeler Gauge Festival Features 32 CalArts Films Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video...
April 8, 2021 CalArtians Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced its newest class of Guggenheim Fellows, with...
April 6, 2021 Tom Lawson to Step Down as Dean of Art School After three decades as dean of CalArts’ School of Art, Tom Lawson steps down from the position...
March 25, 2021 Graphic Design T-Shirt Show is Now on the World Wide Web The Graphic Design Program’s annual T-Shirt Show is online this year, making it possible to...
Liz Glynn Art MFA 08 Liz Glynn 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 building something. What was great about CalArts is that it broke all those habits and proved to me that it wasn’t just the labor that was going to fix the work. It opened me up to different ways of looking at the ideas behind the work, and how to address those before making anything. At CalArts I realized that I was more interested in the process of production. My work is research-driven. I’m not wedded to the idea of stylistic consistency, but there’s an underlying idea that human action matters and can shape the physical world, and by extension, metaphorically, the political and social reality that we inhabit. I got so much out of being at CalArts and learning many different logics of critique, and the process of deconstructing a work and figuring out how to put it back together. I don’t think most other institutions would ever dare go that deep. To have that as a professional artist, later on, is incredibly important because there’s so much that’s pushing you in the direction of maintaining consistency. But the only way to make progress is to have these moments of destruction and teardown. Many of the artists I now teach with as colleagues are CalArts alumni. At any given museum opening, I’m surrounded by them. It’s an honor to be part of that legacy of artists, and it’s also one group of alumni that maintains a critical conversation long after graduating. I think that’s really important.