Filmmaker and 2007 California Insitute of the Arts graduate Adrian Molina won a Golden Globe Sunday night as co-director of “Coco,” which earned the “Best Animated Feature Film” award.
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The Slamdance Film Festival, which runs parallel to the larger Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 19-25, presents a lineup including 11 films from current CalArts students, faculty and alumni from the School of Film & Video.
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The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has released findings from an 18-month survey of arts education in K-12 public schools.
The Arts Ed Profile was administered to all 2,277 schools across LA County, including 81 districts, four charter school networks as well as a few individual charter schools.
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Each month the Arts Commission recognizes individuals or groups who have made a significant contribution to the artistic and cultural life of the Santa Clarita Valley. This month they recognized Dianne Foderaro for her work as an educator and artist who shares her passion for the arts with children and adults through the ARTree organization and through her work as a professional artist.
Dianne is an artist and a teacher with thirty years of teaching experience in the Saugus Union School District. During those years, she was named Teacher of the Year in 1990. Dianne spent two summers teaching with the Von’s Teach the Teachers technology program in Ojai, California. She has a Master of Arts degree in education with an emphasis on art and completed research proving the importance of drawing in the development of visual perceptual skills. Dianne’s grant-funded projects include guiding students to design and create public murals as well as the development of student-based video projects.
As a welded metal artist, Dianne creates whimsical life-sized people. All of her pieces include recycled materials. She has two public art pieces installed in Santa Clarita – a trailhead piece, “Crossroads at Iron Horse Trailhead,” developed collaboratively with Idelle Okman Tyzbir, and a second piece, “The Spirit of Santa Clarita,” on the South Fork Trail. Her works are part of private collections throughout California. With two grown children and four grandsons, Dianne enjoys bringing an interest in the arts to her own family as well as to the children of Santa Clarita.
Two decades ago, the first edition of the anthology “Contemporary Plays by Women of Color” was published, paving the way for work by female writers and writers of color to be more widely produced and studied.
The trailblazing second edition, edited by Roberta Uno, director of the CalArts-based ArtChangeUS initiative, traverses the new millennium with contemporary plays from renowned and emerging playwrights.
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CalArtians in 2nd Edition of ‘Contemporary Plays by Women of Color’
CalArts alumnus Greg Kurstin (Music BFA 92) earned two nominations in the 60th Annual Grammy Awards announced on Tuesday.
Kurstin is nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media (“Never Give Up” from the “Lion” soundtrack) and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
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Award-winning Deaf culture advocate, producer, choreographer and dancer Antoine Hunter (Dance 02) won an award at the 2017 San Francisco Dance Film Festival last month.
Hunter co-choreographed and performed in Qiying Lin’s short film, “Dance to the Music in your Heart.” The film was awarded an SFDFF prize for Best Student Film.
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CalArts Alum Wins ‘Best Student Film’ at 2017 SF Dance Film Festival
Tempe Hale (Film/Video MFA 14) and Ambar Navarro (Film/Video BFA 15), both graduates of CalArts Experimental Animation Program, premiered their new music video for Detroit-based artist Stef Chura on DIY Magazine. The melancholic track, “Speeding Ticket,” is from Chura’s latest album, Messes, which will be re-released in February 2018 through Saddle Creek Records. Hale and Navarro’s visually compelling music video combines stop-motion animation and live action.
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Detroit-based Artist Collaborates with CalArtians on Music Video
Artist and animator, Eric Leiser (Film/Video BFA ) currently has a solo show at the Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Time Crystals, which opened Nov. 11 and runs through Jan. 2, 2018, presents new work that explores concepts in experimental physics through holography, sculpture and video.
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