School of Art

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...

“No genre can hold this book.” Writer Ben Lerner describes Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, which debuted on March 17, as “a work of tender force, prying open every category … breathtaking—or breathgiving, because the whole thing oxygenates...

On Monday, March 16, US News & World Report released its latest rankings of the Best Fine Arts Graduate Schools in the Nation. CalArts has been placed fifth, tying with Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  The rankings, conducted by US News between fall 2019 and early 2020, were based on a...

An artist collective composed of CalArtians will take the stage at the Other Places art fair (OPaf) on March 14-15 at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Calif. The Operational Statements collective—CalArtians Luka Fisher (Art MFA 18), Sydney Mills (Art MFA 18), Don Tingling (Art...

Yung Jake, Untitled Self-Portrait 9, 2020. Oil on found metal; powder-coated steel support, 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm) | Image courtesy of Steve Turner Gallery Steve Turner Gallery presents Cartoons Too, a solo exhibition by Yung Jake, also known as Jake Patterson (Art BFA 12), running...