Home » Tag Archives: CalArts (page 10)

CalArts

CalArts Brings Technology, Programs To Fine Arts

For high school graduates looking to bring a touch of tech to their fine arts higher education, CalArts is inviting visitors to the campus this spring to observe the latest arts-based techniques for teaching computer science and explore the leading-edge work created in response. CalArts will launch three new classes in its Fall 2013 quarter: Introduction to Programming for Digital ...

Read More »

Singer Marie Wise-Hawkins Wins $25K In National Contest

By Stephen K. Peeples CalArts grad and popular Santa Clarita Valley singer-actress-dancer Marie Wise-Hawkins has won the $25,000 grand prize in a national singing competition staged by the Dallas-based Romano’s Macaroni Grill restaurant chain. And she says it’s dramatically changed her life. “I’m so incredibly happy,” Wise-Hawkins said back home in Canyon Country last week. “Now, I can finally finish ...

Read More »

Shanghai Calling’s Eliza Coupe Discusses Life After CalArts

Along with fellow CalArts’ School of Theater alumnae Alison Brie (“Community”) and Cecily Strong (“Saturday Night Live”), Eliza Coupe is making a splash in the world of comedy. She stars in the recently released romantic comedy, “Shanghai Calling,” and can also be seen on the ABC ensemble sitcom “Happy Endings.” Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right ...

Read More »

CalArts Grads Win Oscar For Best Animated Feature

Leon Worden | SCV News Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, graduates of California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 85th annual Academy Awards.CalArts was well represented in the category, with alums responsible for three of the five films nominated. Andrews’ and Chapman’s picture, “Brave” (Disney/Pixar 2012), beat out the work ...

Read More »

Geena Davis Talks Gender Equality In Media At CalArts

SCVNews.com Story by Christine N. Ziemba, CalArts Office of Public Affairs Women are still so woefully underrepresented in films and television shows that — at the current rate — it would take nearly 700 years to achieve parity. That was just one of the jaw-dropping facts that Academy Award-winning actor and activist Geena Davis told an audience of CalArts students and ...

Read More »

CalArts Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Digital Classroom

Press Release | SCVNews.com Modern education demands new ways of teaching – especially in the arts and sciences. California Institute of the Arts has launched a first-of-its kind digital classroom designed specifically to teach computer science to non-traditional students in the arts and humanities, and in the process, created a prototype for new forms of collaborative learning across the disciplines. The class, ...

Read More »

CalArts To Perform Diverse Dance And World Music For Santa Clarita Schools

The City of Santa Clarita in partnership with CalArts will host a performance titled “Music from Almost Tomorrow” with a group of students from the Share the World Program for local junior high students at Arroyo Seco Jr. High School on Jan. 28, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. “The performance will feature dance performances and world music ensembles, ranging ...

Read More »