School of Art

Ellen Birrell is an artist, lemon farmer and writer. She is a Co-founder, Publisher and editor of X-TRA, a Contemporary Art Quarterly, currently the longest running art magazine published in Los Angeles. Founded by visual artists in Los Angeles fifteen years ago, X-TRA is celebrating this... Continue reading »

  Kaucyila Brooke is an artist based in Los Angeles. She has been a regular faculty member of the Program in Photography and Media at CalArts since 1992, and served as Program Director (1999 –2004) and Program Co-Director (1994-1999, 2013-2015). Brooke’s multidisciplinary... Continue reading »

Jo Ann Callis was born in Cincinnati and began teaching at CalArts in 1976. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Gallery Min, Tokyo and Rose Gallery here... Continue reading »

Mercedes Dorame, born in Los Angeles, California, received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her undergraduate degree from UCLA. She calls on her Gabrielino Tongva ancestry to engage the problematics of visibility and ideas of cultural construction. Dorame’s work is in the... Continue reading »

  Judy Fiskin has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Asher-Faure in Los Angeles, and Curt Marcus and Castelli Photographs in New York. Her work has been shown at museums and galleries around the world. Her photographs were featured in... Continue reading »

Andrew Freeman is a photographer, writer, filmmaker and curator based in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Long Exposures: Photography Essays from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,... Continue reading »