Giving to CalArts

As a Technology Interaction and Design student from the Herb Alpert School of Music, Fishman clearly enjoys straddling the blurry line between technology and the arts. 

“I was really inspired by CalArts alumni and the amazing projects that came out of the Experimental Animation program. It really changed my perspective about what can be done with animation.”

Cori Bratby-Rudd (Critical Studies MFA 19), co-founder of the queer reading series The Influx Collective, used an Alumnx Seed Grant to help launch a podcast that is expending their reach. 

Learn how Graphic Design turned their success with Open Learning at CalArts into a dynamic new space for students.

Educator, advocate, and artist Foremost made a decision recently to radically change his life and pursue his passion for art-making that would celebrate and uplift Black communities.

Sitting in the grass on Clark’s Field on a 90-degree day, Khadim Dai (BFA Film/Video) said that his greatest joy now is simple: to study and just contemplate life without worrying about the threat of violence. “I came to CalArts to think and reflect and take time to write my own...

For a young writer from a remote region, the lure of a big city—with its economic opportunities and active cultural and social scenes—can be very tempting. But for Marisa Mata, who received her MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts in May and who was born and raised in Fresno, the...

It was the kind of innocuous interaction that happens on countless college campuses on any given Friday night. A neighbor knocked on the dorm room door of Elisheva Engel (Film/Video BFA 20)and asked her if she wanted to go to a party off campus. For Engel, who had arrived at CalArts only weeks...

When Olga Garay-English began working at the Cultural Affairs Department in Miami during the early 1980s, the city's arts and culture scene was still firmly rooted in the European canon. That didn't seem right to the Cuban-born Garay-English, who arrived with her family as a refugee to...