CalArts Events

Opening Reception: April 11 at 6 PM RSVP

Harmony Holiday: Spectacular Brooding investigates the spectacles and secrets of black grief. Read more...

Experimental Animation Visiting Artists (EAVA) Series presents Sarina Nihei, a Japanese freelance animation director and illustrator specializing in hand-drawn, surreal, psychologically driven short films and music videos. 

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Carole Douillard in conversation with Kathryn Andrews.

Jakob Heinemann presents “Spiral Song”, his MFA graduation recital, in collaboration with CalArts students, alumni and faculty. Featuring several premieres of new compositions for various chamber ensembles and jazz quartet.

Grand structures are collapsing. Perhaps cosmic in nature. You feel that weight. It crushes you. It asks you to reorient your perspective. Will you respond with terror? Joy? Resolve?

CHANEL Center for Artists and Technology (CCAT) presents Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Associate Professor at ArtCenter College of Design, a 2025-27 Vera List Center Fellow at the New School, and a 2024-25 Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellow.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards grants + fellowships in the performing, digital + visual arts for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals, recent alumnx, and artists to study, conduct research, and/or teach English abroad.

The Creative Writing MFA’s Writing Now reading series is excited to host: Jean Chen Ho, is the author of Fiona and Jane, one of TIME‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022!

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls’ indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

JACK Quartet performs George Friedrich Haas’ visionary Third String Quartet—designed to be experienced in total darkness. Read more...

Noah Feasey-Kemp visits MFOR-106-01/506-01 Creative Technology Forum!

Visiting Artist Mick Jenkins joins for the Hip Hop Theory + Praxis class! 

OPEN TO THE INSTITUTE

A Doctor of Musical Arts Year II Recital showcasing original electroacoustic & multimedia compositions, arrangements, and expressions by Jeffrey Cobbold (DMA-2). 

Choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener combine technological and human pathways into a dynamic work that imagines an Artificial Intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance. Read more...

Visiting Artist Open Mike Eagle joins for the Hip Hop Theory + Praxis class! 

OPEN TO THE INSTITUTE