School of Art

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...

When CalArts closed its campus in March due to Covid-19, students in the School of Theater’s Costume Design Program scattered across the country. Many were without sewing machines. By May, Costume Design students, along with a multidisciplinary group of alums, launched an initiative to...

Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, presents Mapping the Collection, a virtual exhibition of American art from the 1960s and ‘70s. The exhibition, which runs from Saturday, June 20 to Sunday, Aug. 23, features the work of several CalArtians.  Mapping the Collection highlights a...