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2019

Issue 6

Features

David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom steps down as dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts after 30 years. The Pool pays tribute to Rosenboom’s multidimensional career as both an acclaimed performer-composer and innovative educator with two stories...

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David Rosenboom Portrait

Michael Asher: Subversive Mailings in Cold War’s Eleventh Hour

During the fall of 1989, when I was in the final year of my MFA Art program at CalArts, I was Michael Asher’s TA for Post Studio Art. Each week we met in Michael’s...

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Tastemakers: Barley Rakers ~ Crust Flakers ~ Bread Bakers ~ Ice Scrapers ~ Bean Shakers

Many CalArts alumnx are finding unique ways to apply their artistic training as entrepreneurs within the food industry, in particular within Los Angeles’ booming foodie scene. The five profiled here are among those grads...

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Tastemakers Cover, Illustration by Κat Catmur
Composer Ellen Reid is photographed for We Are CalArts on February 8, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ethan Hill/Contour RA by Getty Images) Composer Ellen Reid is photographed for We Are CalArts on February 8, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ethan Hill/Contour RA by Getty Images)

Ellen Reid: Burn / Hit / Run

“Okay, Okay, Okay, Okay. Challenge accepted.” Composer Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11), recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music, is making me a playlist. She closes her eyes and sways while spinning records in her head, blurting out ideas and enthusiastic reasoning for her choices. Ellen isn’t the kind of composer I learned about…

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear CalArtians, Of all the truths that arts education can lay bare, one is always clear: great artists come from everywhere. Gifts of generative brilliance simmer in equal measure across communities, cultures, demographics, and countries. When we emancipate those gifts—and fulfill our fundamental mission as a community of artists—we unleash potential from every quarter. That’s…

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FROM VISUAL ESSAY

Beyond the Mask: Photographs by Joel Orozco

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Child Looking out of Window

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Photograph of 3 Persons Probably Inside Church

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Person Wearing Mask Holds Child

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Children standing out of house one wears a mask

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Man wearing a mask inside a car holding the stirring wheel with sharp object

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Figures with masks holding axes child fallen on the ground suffering

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Children inside a chicken coop, throwing doll in the air

Joel Orozco, Beyond the Mask: Figure waring clown mask, carrying human size stuffed doll

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From In Memoriam

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Haruko Tanaka ’03 (1974–2019)

Haruko Tanaka (Art 03) passed away in October 2019. She was an artist photographer,...

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Milton Quon ’39 (1913–2019)

Chouinard alumnus and Disney animator Milton Quon passed away on June 18 at the...

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Haruko Tanaka ’03 (1974–2019)

Haruko Tanaka (Art 03) passed away in October 2019. She was an artist photographer,...

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Milton Quon ’39 (1913–2019)

Chouinard alumnus and Disney animator Milton Quon passed away on June 18 at the...

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From Class Notes

Paloma Navarrete '00

Paloma Navarrete ’00

Paloma Navarrete ’00 “Hi, Everyone! I’m still running my shop, HYPERCLASH, in Santa Fe,...

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JP Allen '84

J. P. Allen ’84

J. P. Allen ’84 says, “I wrote and am directing my 10th independent feature...

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Pamela Hoogeboom '19

Pamela Hoogeboom ’19

Pamela Hoogeboom ’19 reports, “Just three months after graduation, I’m situated in my dream...

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Jodi Stuart '74

Jodi Stuart ’74

Jodi Stuart ’74 says, “Being a free spirit and an artist in Manhattan didn’t...

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Goh Kurosawa '03

Goh Kurosawa ’03

Goh Kurosawa ’03 tells us: “This summer I was invited to participate in an...

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Paul Kaufman '76

Paul Kaufman ’76

Paul Kaufman ’76 reports, “Awakened by the ‘ping’ of a message arriving, I rolled...

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Jacqueline Wright '91

Jacqueline Wright ’91

Jacqueline Wright ’91 says, “I was recently living in my Dope Elf House (designed...

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Stephanie Zaletel '12

Stephanie Zaletel ’12

Stephanie Zaletel ’12 writes, “Two thousand eighteen was a beautiful, challenging, and exciting year—here...

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Rachel Youdelman '73

Rachel Youdelman ’73

Rachel Youdelman ’73 lets us know that “The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired...

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Tim Wolf '81

Tim Wolf ’81 and Jack Vees ’86

Tim Wolf ’81 updates us: “I recently released Tidal, an album-length collection of live,...

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FROM THE BUZZ

‘I’m Douglas Rushkoff and I’m with Team Human.’

“Look into people’s eyes when you speak with them. Establish rapport. Human beings have the home field advantage here in the real world. But being human is a team sport.” –Douglas Rushkoff Technology keeps...

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A little musical world on Larchmont Boulevard.

For centuries there’s been symbiosis between art making and teaching. It not only provides a source of income for artists, but also a way to refine their skills and connect with a new generation...

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Rhodes School of Music Building

A situation where art might happen

The Kestner Gesellschaft’s Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts takes a magnifying glass to the Institute’s first decade (1970–1980) and the legendary artists it produced during this era and beyond. The show’s...

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CalArts, unknown, ca. 1971-1972. B/w photograph. California Institute of the Arts Archives Photographic Materials Collection.

Holley Farmer Brings Merce Cunningham’s Technique

A principal dancer for 12 years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Holley Farmer joined the CalArts faculty and is currently teaching Cunningham’s technique to students in The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance....

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Holley Farmer in the Classroom

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