Ed. Note: The following is a news release courtesy of the California Institute of the Arts. After 29 years in office, Lavine will step down as president of CalArts, giving the Valencia college two years to find a replacement and push key initiatives, officials said Wednesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your ...

The following is a news release courtesy of California Institute of the Arts. On June 17, CalArts alumna and opera singer Breanna Sinclairé became the first trans woman to sing the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Sinclairé, (Music BFA 11) a soprano ...

Valencia resident and Vietnam veteran Paul Berkowitz is being featured in a new documentary titled “Unseen Warriors: Army Combat Cameramen in Vietnam.” Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Berkowitz moved to Valencia right after coming home from Vietnam, where he was a combat cameraman from 1968 to 1970. He worked at CalArts for ...

The CalArts World Music and Dance Festival where Santa Clarita residents can experience music from around the globe is coming this May. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Since the early 1970s, this exuberant annual festival has brought celebrated international artists to perform with faculty and students of CalArts’ exceptional World Music programs. ...

Three CalArts students walked away with more than $8,000 in scholarship money after Chiquita Canyon hosted its fourth annual Found Art Scholarship competition Thursday at the Valencia arts college. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “This is a very exciting partnership for us, because it truly highlights the creativity of the artist,” said ...

California Institute of the Arts and Chiquita Canyon are inviting students to participate in the third annual Found Art Competition on Thursday, April 2, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Chiquita Canyon, an innovative local business that is home to a 9.2 megawatt clean energy facility, and the California Institute ...

CalArts will be playing host to the 2015 &NOW Festival of New Writing. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Literary festival on CalArts campus in Valencia, California celebrates work that explodes the boundaries of visual art, music, filmmaking, and performance. &Now is a biennial literary festival known for bringing new and unique forms ...

CalArts faculty and alumni took home the recording industry’s highest honors during the 57th annual Grammy Awards. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The LA-based percussion ensemble Partch won for its album, Plectra & Percussion Dances (Bridge Records), in the Best Classical Compendium category. Produced by John Schneider, the recording features a number ...

Story by Leon Worden of SCV News CalArts graduate, Mark Bradford, was recently one of seven artists to be honored with the U.S. Department of State’s 2014 Medal of the Arts. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The ceremony was held Wednesday in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin room in Washington, D.C. In ...

Four CalArts alumni were selected on Jan. 7 for the 2015 Creative Capital Artists awardees. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Forty-six artists from around the country were selected from a pool of 3,700 applicants in the categories of Moving Image and Visual Arts; each grant recipient receives a $50,000 for project funding, ...