Issue 12
Winter/Spring
When done in earnest, protests generally aren’t seen as a place for fashion. But Camille Benda, author of the book Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History, might beg to differ. It examines the role clothes play in activism, from what’s worn to what is not. Benda, CalArts’ head of the Costume Design…
The afternoon of Friday, May 13 saw the lawn of CalArts’ Graduation Courtyard dotted with chairs and picnic blankets, and the galleries of the Main Building thrumming with live music and in-person festivities. After two years of virtual ceremonies, the CalArts class of 2022 marked their graduation with a singular and joyous send-off that only…
For his CalArts MFA thesis, Foremost King (Art MFA 22) created a distinct kind of art. Instead of painting, sculpture, or mixed media, he established the Freedom Art Squad—a youth development project that uses art and imaginative play to reimagine school safety and advocate for alternatives to law enforcement on school campuses in the Antelope…
After being off-campus for most of 2020 and 2021, students, faculty, and staff slowly returned to in-person performances, art-making, and social gatherings during the fall 2021 semester. As the year progressed, a semblance of normalcy returned, and by April and May of 2022, CalArts buzzed with activity once again, with students creating work with fervor…
In late March, podcast network CurtCo Media launched Solar, a 12-episode, immersive sci-fi drama created by Chris Porter (Music MFA 09) and directed by Porter and Jenny Curtis (Theater BFA 12). The audio drama follows crew members on the ill-fated solar research probe Aethon, who are disconnected from Earth and trapped on separate parts of…
Raven Chacon (Music MFA 04), a Diné artist and composer, was working in his studio in Hudson Valley, New York, in early May when he began receiving a flurry of text messages. He found the buzzing on his phone so distracting that he turned it off. When Chacon finally checked, he was surprised to find that friends…
