School of Art

During last weekend’s Independence Day holiday, when Americans expected the sky to be filled with fireworks, a coalition of 80 artists sent a fleet of skytypers to fly over detention facilities, immigration courts, borders, and sites of historic relevance. The planes spelled out messages...

On June 29, creative solutions to the oceans in crisis were showcased in “Arts and Activism for a Sustainable Ocean,” a webinar presented by global research nonprofit World Resources Institute (WRI) and CalArts. The innovative artist-activist works were produced by four student teams from the...

CalArts’ 24700 podcast presents a new series that focuses on the Graphic Design Program’s alumnae. Radical Practice features conversations between current students and graduates of the program with distinct professional practices. With members of the class serving as roundtable...

The COVID-19 pandemic put a stopper on MFA thesis shows across the nation, spurring artists to move their projects from physical spaces to virtual ones. This month, works from CalArts’ MFA programs in Art, Photography and Media, and Art and Technology will be hosted by contemporary art magazine...

Multidisciplinary artist and recent CalArts graduate stephanie mei huang (Art MFA 20) has organized an online panel discussion with six Asian women artists to discuss how the “yellow woman’s body, historically rendered either invisible or as ‘object,’ is now catapulted...

Weems' project is designed to heighten public awareness of COVID-19 among people of color, who have been disproportionately affected by the deadly virus

From July 1-Oct. 4, 2020, M+ Pavillion in Hong Kong, presents Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders, a site-specific reframing of Shirley Tse’s two installations, Negotiated Differences and Playcourt. The artist and CalArts faculty member created the installations to represent Hong Kong in the...