Issue 9
Winter/Spring
At the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony on April 25, CalArts alum Pete Docter (Film/Video BFA 90) took home his third Oscar when Pixar’s Soul won the Best Animated Feature Film category. Docter, who directed and served as one of the writers on the film, shared the award with producer Dana Murray. He had previously…
During a special screening of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upcoming film, In the Heights, on May 15, former First Lady Michelle Obama announced a special partnership between CalArts and The Posse Foundation—a leading college success and youth leadership development nonprofit. “I’m proud to announce that Posse is teaming up with Lin-Manuel and the Miranda Family [Fund] to…
Carla Lucero (Music BFA 86), whose previous operas include Wournos (2001) and Juana (2019), is gearing up for her most ambitious work yet, The Three Women of Jerusalem (Las Tres Mujeres de Jerusalén), for the LA Opera. It will be performed on March 19, 2022, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in…
The world will always need cookies, especially during a global crisis. CalArts alum Monica Hicks-Jenkins (Art 09) found that out last year during the pandemic. Even though the shutdowns disrupted most people’s lives, her Etsy business, Pent Up Cookie Company kept her busy, especially after April 2020 when everyone realized that this pandemic wasn’t going…
