School of Art

CalArtians were among the recipients of the second annual Future Art Awards and inaugural Future Art Writers Awards, both issued by MOZAIK Philanthropy for creative explorations of the 2021 theme “reimagining democracy.” The Future Art Awards were launched in 2020 as part of MOZAIK’s...

table, a contemporary art space in Chicago founded by Kyle Bellucci Johanson (Art MFA 16), presents fellow CalArtian Lúcia Prancha’s (Art MFA 15) exhibition Bread Story, marking the artist’s first solo show in the city. Bread Story is a continuation of the artist’s...

On Oct. 9, the body is a blade (that sharpens by cutting), an exhibition curated by CalArts alums Vinhay Keo (Art MFA 20) and Evelyn Hang Yin (Art MFA 20), opens at Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.  The exhibition title is a quote from the poem “Headfirst” by acclaimed author...

Tom Leeser, director of the Art and Technology Program and the Center for Integrated Media (CIM) in the School of Art, has curated Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure, a new exhibition at Montclair State University in New Jersey running until Dec. 11, 2021. Leeser, who is currently on...

CalArtian Gosia Wojas (Art BFA 19) announces her latest publication Material-i-ty, a volume book featuring essays from artists Cara Benedetto and Farah Karapetian and writer Anthony Leslie.  Wojas shared the origin of the publication in a recent email interview with 24700:  I began being...

Poet and translator Don Mee Choi (Art BFA 84, MFA 86) has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, joining the distinguished ranks of hundreds of artists and academics across disciplines since the grants were first issued in 1981.

The Wende Museum in Culver City, Calif., presents CalArtian Sichong Xie’s (Art MFA 17) latest installation Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, running now until March 20, 2022.  Xie’s installation features hand-built “bamboo scaffolding, embroidery on industrial mesh, and a set of...