School of Art

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...

Currently on view at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) in Los Angeles is the Heritage X exhibition, featuring work by four influential Japanese American artists: Nob Hadeishi (Chouinard 71), Sawako Shintani (Chouinard 68), former Chouinard and CalArts faculty member...

As the three ceremonies for the 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards drew to a close over the weekend, CalArtians Genndy Tartakovsky (Film/Video 92), Hal Hickel (Film/Video 83), David Krentz (Film/Video BFA 93), and Scott Ulrich (Art BFA 94) took home awards in both regular and juried categories.

This weekend, the historic Battery Leary-Merriam landmark in Los Angeles will be taken over by the CalArtian-founded Other Places art fair (OPaf) 2021, a two-day outdoor showcase of experimental contemporary art venues and organizations from Los Angeles and beyond. OPaf was founded in 2018...

Contemporary art gallery Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents Karla Diaz’s (Critical Studies MFA 04) exhibition Insomnia, running from Saturday, Sept. 4 to Saturday, Oct. 30. Diaz’s exhibition, which will be her first solo show with the gallery, represents a year of insomnia. A stroke...