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 …

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 …

Our faculty work with students to hone their skills in an open environment, experiment with new approaches to their work, and critically engage with the rest of the CalArts community as well as the …

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.

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

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

Located 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, CalArts occupies 60 acres on hills overlooking the City of Santa Clarita, which encompasses the towns of Valencia, Newhall, Saugus, and Canyon …

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 …

CalArts offered programs in art, design, film, music, theater, and dance. While it became a fiercely countercultural version of Disney’s utopian concept, the Institute immediately became a hotbed of …