CalArts Admissions

We're proud to announce that once again CalArts School of Film/Video students have been named Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of Independent Film. CalArts trains holistic filmmakers to make their own work. Check out why so many of our students, alumnx, faculty, and staff have been at the forefront of their medium.

Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of cinematic arts? Applications are now open!

CalArtians Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2018 Filmmaker Magazine recently unveiled its annual roundup of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and CalArtians Hannah Peterson (Film/Video MFA 2018) and Richard Van (Film/Video MFA 2018) were included on …

Check out this CalArtian in the New Yorker!

Zadie Smith on Henry Taylor’s Promiscuous Painting The California artist’s subjects are drawn from wildly divergent walks of life—the famous and the down-and-out, the sane and the mad, the rich and the poor.

Thank you to the New York Times for a wonderful write-up about a collaboration between the CalArts Center for New Performance and the Huntington! If you’re in Southern California, consider checking it out. The cast of 20 includes CalArts students and alumni, and members of the Shanghai Kunqu Troupe.

Sharing a Site-Specific Secret A romantic garden. A Chinese opera. And a select audience, wandering under Californian stars.

Congratulations to the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance for landing in the top 10 of Onstage’s rankings of The Top 25 College Dance Programs for 2018-2019! The CalArts dance program is the only west coast program in the top 10, so come for the strong foundation in ballet and contemporary dance styles and stay for the great location and weather.

The Top 25 College Dance Programs for 2018-19 Today, we kick off our annual rankings with programs in dance. Over the years we've seen careers in dance take off in a number of ways. Broadway is no longer the only destination. Programs are preparing dancers for a number of different types of performance settings and jobs.  So here is o

Thank you Variety for the amazing write up! The Character Animation Producers' Show is one of the many ways our students showcase their work while connecting with industry professionals.

CalArts Showcase Offers a Window Into Animation’s Next Generation In certain ways, the May 2 CalArts Character Animation Producers’ Show resembled any number of other year-end showcases of undergrad work held by art schools nationwide. Students gathered to cheer …

Calling all aspiring animators in high school!

Discover Animation is an intensive experience that gives young artists from around the world, age 14-17, an opportunity to explore the fundamentals of animation by participating in this two-week program on the legendary CalArts campus.

Application Priority Deadline: April 30, 2018

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Keep up the good work School of Theater!! (Top 10 Costume Design Schools by The Hollywood Reporter)

CalArts - Top 10 Costume Design Schools Revealed

On the occasion of the premiere of Disney/PIXAR’s 'Coco' in France, French television program '50 Minutes Inside' produced a segment on CalArts and the alumni who helped create the animated feature. 'Coco' is co-directed by alumnus and first-time feature director Adrian Molina and veteran director Lee Unkrich. Other Calartians on the Coco crew include Storyboard Artist Ana Ramirez and Story Supervisor Jason Katz. '50 Minutes' visited the CalArts campus to explore its history and current reality and toured PIXAR headquarters.

French TV Program '50 Minutes Inside' Profiles CalArts and 'Coco' [English Subtitles] On the occasion of the premiere of Disney/PIXAR’s 'Coco' in France, French television program '50 Minutes Inside' produced a segment on CalArts and the alumn...

CalArts President Ravi Rajan is encouraging our students to participate in the National School Walkout on March 14th. ​As an institute that values student expression and aims to create citizen artists who will affect change in the world, CalArts Admissions greatly values our applicants and students rights' to call for change by exercising their First Amendment rights. ​Any disciplinary action that our applicants face from peaceful participation in a protest will in no way affect their admission decision.

Cartoon Network Provides New Scholarship to CalArts Animation Students Cartoon Network has a long and successful history with graduates of the prestigious animation school at CalArts: Genndy Tartakovsky (“Dexter’s Laboratory,” “Samurai Jack,” “Star Wars: Clone Wars”),…

Future Calartians of the real OC! The CalArts Center for New Performance will be in your backyard with the West Coast Premiere of The Hendrix Project. Join us on February 1-3, 2018 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA. Follow the link for tickets.

CalArts Center for New Performance - » The Hendrix ProjectCalArts Center for New Performance Featuring Samantha Barrow, Morgan Camper, Hannah Cruz, Jasmine Gatewood, Heaven Gonzalez, Ariyan Kassam, Liam O’Donnell, Dante Rossi, Henita Telo, Max Udell, Ieva Vizgirdaite, and Christopher Wentworth.

Congratulations to the CalArts Graphic Design Program!

#3 Nationally (Top 1% of schools considered)
#3 Nationally among Private Colleges (Top 1% of schools considered)
#1 on the West Coast (Top 2% of schools considered)
#1 in California

Top 50 Graphic Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. – 2018 Rankings | Animation Career Review 2018 rankings of the top 50 graphic design schools in the US.

Congratulations to our School of Theater's MFA Directing Program on being named a top 10 program by American Theatre! Learn more about our program at theater.calarts.edu.

Learning to Lead 10 MFA directing programs designed to train well-rounded directors.

We’re on the road again! Find us at any of the upcoming National Portfolio Days listed below. For a full list, check out our website: https://calarts.edu/admissions/tours-and-admissions-events/us-events/portfolio-days

Are you a graduate student? You can chat online with a CalArts Admissions Rep about applying from 9:30am to 12:00pm Pacific Time this Friday, December 1st, as part of the NPDA Grad School Online Portfolio Day and Information Fair.

To Register: https://www.careereco.com/register/npda?ref=ceh

You could win a $100 Amazon Gift Card for participating. Hope to see you there!
Questions? Send an email to [email protected] or 770-980-0088.

NPDA Grad School Online Portfolio Day and Information Fair: December 1, 2017 Online Admissions Event | December 1st | 6 am - 5 pm Eastern U.S.Prospective Students Meet with Art, Design & Film Graduate Programs The Virtual Fair is free to interested students

Check out this write up of alum Mark Bradford's latest work at the Hirshorn in Hyperallergic.
https://hyperallergic.com/411534/mark-bradford-picketts-charge-hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden-2017/

Mark Bradford's Gettysburg Address Bradford's installation at the Hirshhorn takes as its subject the ways we think, and are diverted from thinking, about history.

As part of the See What You Mean project, CalArts faculty member and artist Harry Gamboa Jr. worked with over 40 young adults and college students from across Los Angeles during his yearlong Getty Artists Program (GAP) residency.

Check it out here: http://www.getty.edu/education/adult_learners/getty_artists_program/gamboa/index.html

Gamboa Fotonovela | The J. Paul Getty Museum See what you mean, Harry Gamboa Jr.'s Fotonovelas

Interested in CalArt's multidisciplinary undergraduate programs in Design and Production within the School of Theater? Come join us on Saturday, December 2nd at 10am!

This event will include interaction with current students, demonstrations, and conversations with faculty about Costume Design, Lighting Design, Scene Design, Sound Design, Technical Direction, Experience Design/Themed Entertainment, and Stage Management.

Register at https://calarts.edu/admissions/tours-and-admissions-events/open-houses.

Open Houses | CalArts CalArts offers a variety of unique programs at the undergraduate and graduate level within its six world-renowned Schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater.

Future filmmakers! Check out this interview with writer-director and CalArts alum Patrick Brice on his latest film, Creep 2 -- a sequel to the pair’s cult horror film Creep (2014). http://blog.calarts.edu/2017/11/02/director-patrick-brice-on-creep-2-and-calarts/

Director Patrick Brice on Creep 2 and CalArts Writer-director and CalArts alum Patrick Brice (Film/Video BFA 11) re-teams with actor-writer-producer Mark Duplass, for Creep 2—a sequel to the pair’s cult horror film Creep (2014). Released last week on …

Join Dimitri Chamblas, Dean of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, in New York for free dance workshops through his latest project titled Environmental Bubble.

FREE with RSVP with preferred location and time slot addressed to [email protected]

(https://www.facebook.com/events/284846758678722/?active_tab=about)

On Oct. 5th and 6th CalArts partnered with the Themed Entertainment Association to host the 17th Annual SATE (Storytelling + Art + Technology = Entertainment) conference!

CalArts Hosted Themed Entertainment Association’s 2017 Conference California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) partnered with the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) to host the 17th Annual SATE (Storytelling + Art + Technology = Entertainment) conference on October 5th and 6th.

CalArts admissions counselors are on the road again! Here's is where they'll be this week. For a full list, please visit our website: https://calarts.edu/admissions/tours-and-admissions-events/us-events

CalArts Admissions reps are on the road again this week! Let us know if you'll be joining us at any of these events. For more information on where we'll be going in the next few months visit our website! https://calarts.edu/a…/tours-and-admissions-events/us-events

In Mumbai? Check us out at the P-Review forum on Sunday.

https://tockify.com/preview/detail/15/1505626200000

Preview forum Mumbai This International Portfolio Review Forum is a specialized event for students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies abroad in visual art, design, architecture and related arts. Mee

CalArts will be at the P-Review forum in Delhi on Saturday!

https://tockify.com/preview/detail/14/1505536200000

Preview forum New Delhi This International Portfolio Review Forum is a specialized event for students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies abroad in visual art, design, architecture and related arts. Mee

Congratulations to CalArts for being spotlighted as one of the top 15 art schools in the United States by Artsy!

The 15 Top Art Schools in the United States Artists don’t need a Master of Fine Arts to make it big, but it certainly can’t hurt. If you’re taking the plunge, here are 15 American schools to consider.

Excited to see East of the River by current student Hannah Peterson has been selected as a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! If you go to Kickstarter it's the first project you see.

East of the River