Administration and Staff

Amanda Beech
Dean
abeech@calarts.edu
661-253-7804
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Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work proposes a new realist politics of the artwork and its possibilities in the context of contingency and neo-rationalist conceptions of power. Recent solo shows include: Covenant Transport, Move or Die, Baltic Museum, UK, 2016; All... Continue reading »

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Michael Bryant
Associate Dean
Faculty
mbryant@calarts.edu
661-255-1050 x2241
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Mike Bryant is a biologist and a statistician.  His research has appeared in several scientific journals: Science, Nature, American Naturalist, Ecology, PLoS, Animal Behaviour and Environmental Biology OF Fishes.  Mike’s research interests in biology include functional anatomy,... Continue reading »

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Arne De Boever
Program Director
adeboever@calarts.edu
661-255-1050 x2411
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Arne De Boever (PhD Columbia, 2009) teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies and the MA Aesthetics and Politics program at the California Institute of the Arts (USA). He directed the MA program from 2011-2019 and returned to that role in 2020.  De Boever’s... Continue reading »

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Andrea Fontenot
Director, The Writing Center
Faculty
afontenot@calarts.edu
661-255-1050 x2028
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* Faculty Emeritus
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