David Joseph Ostap, born on Sept. 20, 1962, passed away April 16, 2022, in his home in Reseda, California, from a heart attack. David was a graduate from the School of Music at CalArts in composition in 1987. He studied with Mel Powell, Alan Chaplin and Nick England and very proud of the fact that…

Actor, voice artist, and musician Emilio Delgado (Theater 71), best known for his work on the beloved children’s television series Sesame Street, passed away on March 10, 2022, in Manhattan, New York. He was 81.  For more than four decades, Delgado played Sesame Street’s Luis Rodriguez, the owner of resident repair business The Fix-It Shop….

Ingram Douglass Marshall (Music MFA 71), age 80 of Hamden, Connecticut, died on May 31, 2022, at St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven, of complications due to Parkinson’s disease. He is survived by his wife, Veronica Tomasic; his son, Clement Marshall; daughter-in-law Samantha Do and two granddaughters; and his daughter Juliet Simon and two grandsons. He…

Jeannene Przyblyski, former provost of California Institute of the Arts and School of Art faculty, passed away on Jan. 24, 2022. She was 62. Przyblyski, who was remembered by San Francisco Chronicle as the “art school dean who saw expression in everything,” joined the Institute in 2012 after serving as vice president and dean of…

CalArts lost one of its much-loved members this past spring. John Choi (Music BFA 13) lost his nearly four-year-long battle with cancer in March, leaving a void that has been felt across the Institute’s community of artists.  Choi was a versatile musician with a range of experiences. In 2017 he played clarinet and tenor saxophone…

Los Angeles-based visual artist Luciano Perna (Art BFA 84, MFA 86), lauded by the Los Angeles Times for his “quirky sculptures and varied photographs [that] play with the elasticity of matter and time,” passed away on Dec. 28, 2021 in Los Angeles. He was 63. The artist was born in 1958 in Naples, Italy, to…

CalArts mourns the passing of Robert Blalack (Film/Video MFA 73), a well-known visual effects artist and CalArts alum. Blalack passed away earlier this year from cancer, aged 73. Born in Panama in 1948, he later attended school at St Paul’s School in London, England. After graduating, he came to the U.S. to continue his education…

Steve Hoey, CalArts alum (Music MFA 98) passed away on Feb. 16, 2022. He was a brilliant composer, an excellent flutist, and a lover of all things in the recorder world. He earned an A.B. magna cum laude degree from Harvard University, MPhil from Oxford University, an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (where…

Editor’s note: Earlier this month, we learned of the sudden passing of Terry Hawk, longtime Administrative and Finance Manager of CalArts’ Community Arts Partnership (CAP). CalArts President Ravi Rajan penned this remembrance of Terry, which was sent to CalArts staff, faculty, and students. Since Terry worked with so many CalArts students, who are now alums,…