School of Art

On Friday, May 22, the Herb Alpert Foundation announced the recipients of the 2020 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). Administered by CalArts since 1994, the awards recognize five mid-career artists pushing the boundaries of Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Each honoree...

Teaching art and making art have been Gene Gill’s passions for most of his life. With a knack for drawing as a young boy, Gill grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute in 1958 after four years in the Navy. He joined the military so that he could take advantage of the...

CalArtians have often provoked and inspired audiences at Frieze New York, one of the most anticipated art fairs each year. Due to the cruel realities of a global pandemic, plans for this year’s fair proceeded only through the sheer determination and creativity of artists, collaborators, and...

A new video by the Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad celebrates the impact of late longtime faculty CalArts members James Tenney and John Baldessari (Chouinard 59) on Los Angeles’ art landscape. Organized by faculty Madeline Falcone (Music MFA 13), the video explores...

Artist-centered publisher X Artists’ Books has released Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater, the first published collection of the work of Asher Hartman (Art MFA 03) and his Gawdafful National Theater Company.  In Mad Clot on a Holy Bone, Hartman mixes “historical...

On Wednesday (April 8), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced the awarding of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships to 175 scholars, artists, and writers. Several CalArts alums and faculty were named among this year’s fellows: Pia Borg (School of Film/Video faculty) ...

In our current climate of social distancing and quarantine, what better than a good book to help experience another reality for a while? We have compiled a list of written works from CalArtians including memoirs, fictional short stories, and graphic design retrospectives. Here are some titles...