CalArts School of Art Admissions Book

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An installation by Hannah Varamini (Art MFA 18) in the D300 Gallery.

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Noted for its commitment to experimentation and crossdisciplinary training, the School of Art will take your practice to the next level, helping you to develop the necessary creative skills and intellectual acuity to pursue your artistic and professional objectives. This commitment to artistic innovation and critical reflection has been the key to our enviable success in training the practitioners who go on to make important contributions to their respective fields.

Our faculty seeks out highly motivated, independent-minded students with a strong desire to make art and to challenge conventional ideas. With mentoring and one-on-one critiques at the heart of an intensive educational experience, you will be guaranteed the flexibility to shape your own creative development, whether in painting or video, photography or performance, typography or sculpture, digital imaging or sound installation, or, increasingly, new options in multimedia technologies. We give you the necessary room to find your own voice.

Our programs in Art, Photography and Media, Art and Technology, and Graphic Design offer specific courses of study—and yet none are isolated from the others. We will strongly encourage you to collaborate with your peers across disciplines and to investigate hybrid art forms—not only within the School of Art but also throughout all of CalArts.

All members of our faculty maintain active careers beyond the classroom. As a result, they are able to share insights on concerns and issues common to working artists, even as their backgrounds, philosophies, and practices are richly diverse. This level of experience provides you with the information and intellectual skills you’ll need to fully understand the complexities facing the professional artist today. We also invite to campus each year some 75 visiting artists, designers, and theorists from around the world to broaden the debate on contemporary art. This accumulation of expertise provides an invaluable foundation on which you can build an independent practice and expand—as many School of Art alumni already have done—the boundaries of artmaking.

PROGRAM IN ART ALUMNX

Mark Allen Barbara Bloom Andrea Bowers Mark Bradford James Casebere Fiona Connor Victoria Fu Jack Goldstein Liz Glynn Guillermo Gomez-Peña Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Richard Hawkins Yung Jake Mike Kelley Alice Könitz David Kordansky Suzanne Lacy Elad Lassry Rodney McMillian Dave Muller Matt Mullican Alex Olson Rubén Ortiz-Torres Tony Oursler Laura Owens Akosua Adoma Owusu Ariel Pink Stephen Prina Marina Rosenfeld David Salle Jim Shaw Henry Taylor Mario García Torres Kaari Upson Christopher Williams

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ART The Program in Art will invite you to question accepted ideas about contemporary art. Encompassing both studio practice and theory, it will challenge you to gain critical self-awareness about your work and better understand the issues and contexts that inform artmaking today. You are not required to concentrate on a particular medium; instead, the program relies on a flexible structure of individualized instruction and mentoring so that you can articulate your ideas, develop working methodologies, and successfully realize independent studio work.

The program offers instruction in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital imaging, sculpture, installation, video, film, writing, and performance. You will learn different strands of process and critique, learning to build as well as deconstruct as you uncover new ways to shape the physical world—and by extension, the political and social realities within.

FOUR-YEAR BFA TWO-YEAR MFA

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Work by Anja Salonen (Art BFA 18) in the L-Shape

Gallery.

An installation by Gwenmarie White (Art MFA 18) in the D301 Gallery.

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PROGRAM IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ALUMNX

Anne Collier Miles Coolidge Zoe Crosher Zackary Drucker Todd Gray Carla Herrera-Prats Lyle Ashton Harris Karolina Karlic Soo Kim Liz Larner Miranda Lichtenstein Michael Mandiberg Daniel J. Martinez Josephine Meckseper Nicole Miller Kelly Nipper Catherine Opie Carrie Mae Weems and James Welling

The Program in Photography and Media is dedicated to image-makers and artists like you interested in developing their practice, engaging in conversations in relation to how images shape contemporary culture, and building technical and formal skills with which to expand the possibilities of lens-based work.

The curriculum explores, examines, and asks questions of contemporary modes of photography and new media, and will encourage you to engage in close critical analysis, debate, and experimentation. With its roots in still photography, the program will support you in a broad range of media and approaches, including still and moving images, installation, new media, sound, performance, and publication. This skill-building is grounded in conversations about the histories of photography and media, the politics of representation, social documentary, activism, and the changing role of cameras and photography in our daily lives.

FOUR-YEAR BFA TWO-YEAR MFA

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Cat’s Cradle: An intermedia show by Don Tinling

(Art MFA 18).

Work by Looksorn Teeratrakul (Art MFA 19) in the Main Gallery.

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PROGRAM IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ALUMNX

Sean Adams Bijan Berahimi Anne Burdick Denise Gonzales Crisp Kim Dulaney Cameron Ewing Jessica Fleischmann Jens Gehlhaar Barbara Glauber Hilary Greenbaum Sibylle Hagmann Peter Kaplan John Kieselhorst Golden Krishna Mark Kulakoff Zak Kyes Deborah Littlejohn Amanda Lui Kevin Lyons Ian Lynam Geoff McFetridge James Moore Penny Pehl Moore Noreen Morioka Karen To Nakada Masato Nakada Kali Nikitas Jonathan Notaro Michael Polish Brian Roettinger Tanya Rubbak Nick Steinhardt Jesse Lee Stout Jon Sueda Jae Hyouk Sung Andrea Tinnes Daryn Wakasa Jeff Zwerner

GRAPHIC D ES I G N The Graphic Design Program emphasizes both practical and conceptual skills, and will enable you to integrate a command of visual language with imagination, theory, and technology. You will be trained in print and publication design; web and interface design; motion graphics for broadcast and film; branding, identity and type design; as well as for careers in design history and education.

Classes are small, intimate, and critique-based, fostering debate and discussion as well as imparting formal and practical knowledge. Over the course of the program, you will create a body of work that is more than a string of assignments—but rather is uniquely yours—and will prepare you to carve an independent path into graphic design with a compelling portfolio marked by strong ideas expressed through form.

FOUR-YEAR BFA TWO- OR THREE-YEAR MFA

OPPOSITE PAGE: Graphic Design MFA project, Tropes 7: A publication developed and designed by CalArts students.

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Year-end Graphic Design Showcase.

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K. Bradford Dan Bustillo Nick Rodrigues Paul Rosero Liz Toonkel Weidi Zhang

PROGRAM IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY ALUMNX

ART AND TECHNOLOGY The graduate Program in Art and Technology will enable you to investigate the creative and critical issues in artmaking today that involve new and emerging technologies—from object-based media to interactive design, from immersive installation to hybrid performance. You will be asked to develop a critical point of view regarding the social and political aspects that inform the way technology is functioning in contemporary culture.

The curriculum is centered around your studio practice, creative research, and an exchange of dialogue between peers, visiting artists, and faculty. Technical instruction is offered in the creative use of computer programming, networked-based systems, digital image making, digital sound design, installation, and interactive media. This wide range of instruction is augmented with critiques, lectures, and seminars that will have you challenging convention at every turn.

TWO-YEAR MFA

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Art and Technology MFA studio class.

A collaborative installation by MFA Art and Technology students Andre Keichian (Art MFA 16) and Jason Richards (Art MFA 16).

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Outdoor installation by Samantha Chen (Art BFA 19).

Installation by Sarah Naim (Art MFA 18).

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Mackenzie Boudreau (Art BFA 19) making new work.

FACULTY PROGRAM IN ART

PROGRAM IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

Saliko Adams Alexandria Carrion Harry Dodge Lecia Dole-Recio Sam Durant Charles Gaines Connie Hatch Michael Ned Holte Darcy Huebler Thomas Lawson Clara López Menéndez John Mandel Chris Peters Cauleen Smith Shirley Tse Millie Wilson *

Caryn Aono Lisa Armstrong Tom Bland Edward Fella * Colin Frazer Roman Jaster Jeff Keedy Yasmin Khan Joyce Lightbody Rebecca Lofchie Louise Sandhaus Stuart Smith Shelley Stepp Gail Swanlund Lorraine Wild Michael Worthington Scott Zukowski

PROGRAM IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA Sara Abbaspour David Alekhuogie Shari Bond Kaucyila Brooke Jo Ann Callis Matt Connolly Morgan CuppetMichelsen Mercedes Dorame Judy Fiskin Andrew Freeman Harry Gamboa Jr. Ashley Hunt Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer Sharon Lockhart Joey Morris Ines Schaber Billy Woodberry Kim Ye

PROGRAM IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY Scott Benzel Dan Bustillo Tom Leeser Kai-Luen Liang Olivia Mole

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Sculpture Class in the Super Shop.

Instructor Jesse Lee Stout’s Practicum Class.

“I don’t think most other institutions would ever dare go as deep as CalArts.”

Liz Glynn (Art MFA 08), from Boston

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