CalArts Podcasts

Henderson Blumer talks with K Rocka Knittel (Art MFA 10) about their experience at CalArts, Other Places Art Fair (OPaf), and what it takes to make an independent art fair happen (with some help from funding awarded by the Alumnx Council ). The next OPaf will take place on Saturday, May 14, 2022 in Santa Rosa, CA. OPaf 5 is happening in San Pedro on September 17 and 18, 2022. Learn more at Other P...

If you’ve been to a reading by poet, librettist, and former CalArts faculty Douglas Kearney (Critical Studies MFA 04), you know that Kearney doesn’t merely recite and read poetry. He performs it, lives it, breathes it, on stage or at the lectern, with an energy that’s more akin to hip hop and jazz with varied rhythms and turns of phrases.   Kearney has published seven poetry collections, including...

We talk with Casey Baden and Minga Opazo, co-founders of Textile Resource LA and current residents at the CalArts REEF Residency.  You can learn more about Casey Baden at caseybaden.com You can learn more about Minga Opazo at mingaopazo.com For more information about Baden and Opazo’s Textile Resource LA project, visit textileresourcela.com For more information about Baden’s Full Service project,...

In this episode we bring together Arturo Márquez (Composition MFA 90) and Maestro Ryan Bancroft (Trumpet BFA 11, MFA 13) who emerged from CalArts’ hotbed of avant garde music to headline classical music programs on the most venerated world stages.  They will discuss the value of CalArts culture of creative freedom, and how its cross-disciplinary pedagogy transformed their vision for their artistic...

In this premier episode of Beyond the Blue Wall , the podcast of the Office of Advancement at CalArts, we talk with Yara Elfouly, an MFA2 in Experimental Animation and the beneficiary of two scholarships from the Institute.  Yara is Egyptian and grew up in Qatar, receiving her undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking from VCUArts Qatar. She talked to us about her experiences as an artist a...

For this episode, we had the opportunity to talk to CalArts alum Claire Marie Vogel (Film/Video BFA 10)  about her online exhibition called, Artists in Isolation.  Over the past year or so, Vogel interviewed 31 musicians, including Allen Stone, Suzi Analogue and Silversun Pickups, about their lives and work during the pandemic.  She conducted photoshoots via Facetime and interviews over text, and...

24700 presents Radical Practice a special podcast series: a podcast about finding growth and agency in design practice. In each episode, current CalArts Graphic Design students interview program alumnae to discuss how they have defined success for themselves and how their education might have played a role.  For more information: https://radicalpractice.calarts.edu/ Beyond the Blue Wall is a produ...

24700 presents Radical Practice a special podcast series: a podcast about finding growth and agency in design practice. In each episode, current CalArts Graphic Design students interview program alumnae to discuss how they have defined success for themselves and how their education might have played a role. Beyond the Blue Wall is a production of the CalArts Office of Advancement. You can find all...

24700 presents Radical Practice a special podcast series : a podcast about finding growth and agency in design practice. In each episode, current CalArts Graphic Design students interview program alumnae to discuss how they have defined success for themselves and how their education might have played a role.  Beyond the Blue Wall is a production of the CalArts Office of Advancement. You can find a...

24700 presents Radical Practice a special podcast series: a podcast about finding growth and agency in design practice. In each episode, current CalArts Graphic Design students interview program alumnae to discuss how they have defined success for themselves and how their education might have played a role.  For more information: https://radicalpractice.calarts.edu/ Beyond the Blue Wall is a produ...

24700 presents Radical Practice a special podcast series : a podcast about finding growth and agency in design practice. In each episode, current CalArts Graphic Design students interview program alumnae to discuss how they have defined success for themselves and how their education might have played a role.  For more information:  https://radicalpractice.calarts.edu/ Beyond the Blue Wall is a pro...

Erick Pepper Rivera (Music BFA 12) is a composer and cartoonist. He talks about his graphic novel, The Hat Boyz , growing up in Watts and then moving to the Santa Clarita area to attend CalArts. Erick currently writes music for picture and draws comics/zines in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and lazy dog. Beyond the Blue Wall is a production of the CalArts Office of Advancement. You can...