School of Art

MFA candidates in the School of Art present their VR booth at the third annual Other Places art fair (OPaf), running Saturday, Sept. 19 to Saturday, Oct. 31 on the fair’s digital platform. After coronavirus postponed the original dates in March, OPaf transformed its 2020 edition into a...

From among 3,566 entries from 107 countries, two works by CalArtians received awards at the renowned Japan Media Arts Festival, which is organized by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. An exhibition featuring the award-winning works opens Sept. 19, and runs through Sept. 27, 2020, at the...

Graphic designer Catherine Gong (Art BFA 23) has been named the winner of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) 2020 John Locher Memorial Award.

REDCAT celebrates 50 years of CalArts graphic design in Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970-2019, organized by CalArts alumni Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton (Art MFA 07) and Silas Munro (Art MFA 08). The exhibition—which is accompanied by two new publications, a virtual...

Ramsey Naito (Art MFA 95) has been promoted to president of Nickelodeon Animation, reports Variety.  Since joining Nickelodeon in 2018 as executive VP of animation production and development, Naito has been a driving force in nurturing new talent and projects, hiring more than 500 employees...

Thesis exhibitions by School of Art 2020 MFA graduates were abruptly upended when campus went into lockdown in spring 2020, barring them from their typical studio spaces. Students have combatted these limitations in Time is Out of Joint, a series of three successive exhibitions running Thursday,...