The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week, and CalArts Film/Video alum Christine Beebe (MFA 05) was at the festival to help premiere her latest project, Hal, directed by Amy Scott.
Beebe, now an LA-based independent filmmaker, was one of the producers of the documentary feature about Hal Ashby, an unsung hero of the New Hollywood Cinema era.
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Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were Tuesday morning, and four CalArts alumni are among the nominees this year — three in the Best Animated Feature Film category and one in the Animated Short Film category.
On the venerated list is Disney/Pixar’s “Coco,” the Día de los Muertos-themed film co-directed and co-written by CalArts alumnus Adrian Molina (Film/Video BFA 07).
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CalArtians’ ‘Boxx Baby,’ ‘Coco,’ ‘Dear Basketball’ Earn Oscar Nominations
Several California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) alumni are nominated for an Academy Award for their work on animated films and animated shorts this year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 90th annual awards show during a live stream Tuesday.
Three of these alumni are nominated in the “Animated Feature Film” category.
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Disney/Pixar’s “Coco” earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, a film which CalArts alumnus Adrian Molina co-wrote and co-directed along with Lee Unkrich.
The news came early Tuesday morning as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced live from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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Several CalArtians are among the Chicago-based United States Artists‘ annual fellowship class of 45 artists and collaboratives who will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant for their respective art practices.
The new fellows, selected from nine disciplines and from throughout the U.S. and announced Tuesday, include CalArts alumni, faculty and guest artists.
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CalArtians Among United States Artists’ New Fellowship Class
Machine Project, the alternative artist-run space founded by CalArts alum Mark Allen (Art MFA 99), will host its final event — a celebratory goodbye party and commemorative print sale — in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, January 13 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The print sale includes Machine Project’s entire catalog of limited-edition artist prints.
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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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County Arts Commission Unveils Findings from K-12 Arts Ed Profile
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.
