While the foundation of a CalArts education is rooted in rigorous artmaking, critical thinking, and faculty mentorship, there’s a little magic that happens in our multidisciplinary environment that sets us apart …

At CalArts, realist literary fiction hangs out with speculative fiction and horror, lyric poetry meets documentary modes, and the essay mingles with memoir, performance, auto-theory, and hybrid forms.

California Institute of Arts offers innovative degree programs, fostering creativity and collaboration across diverse artistic disciplines.

CalArts offers comprehensive degree programs in the visual, performing, media, and literary arts. Programs are optimized for a new kind of artist: One who goes beyond mere aesthetics and …

Rigorous critique, fluent discourse, and cross-genre collaboration are hallmarks of CalArts’ graduate programs, where you’ll build the creative network and individual practice to sustain your life’s work.

Far from just a place to study art rigorously, CalArts is a place where you’ll live art and continuously redefine it—where passion meets profession, where creativity knows no bounds, and where you can …

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