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Current MFA students in the School of Art's Art, Photography and the Integrated Media programs at California Institute of the Arts are pleased to announce the annual Graduate Open Studios Day. For one afternoon, Sunday, April 13 from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m., approximately 60 graduate students will open their workspaces to the public. Visitors are invited to take an inside look at the diverse projects undertaken at CalArts--where students test the limits of their mediums and explore definitions of contemporary art making.

REDCAT: Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics in this Los Angeles premiere. The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and always alive with a distillation of human experience.

CRITICAL STUDIES: MFA Writing students read from new work.