School of Critical Studies

Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video MFA 10), the Feeler Gauge Festival opened virtually earlier this month, featuring 32 films by CalArts BFA, MFA, and alumni filmmakers from across the Institute.  The overarching concept of the...

The MFA Creative Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies presents “Experiments in Dissonance: A Symposium of Interdisciplinary Writing,” running from Friday, April 9 to Saturday, April 10.  This year’s symposium takes place virtually and in partnership with the Bagley Wright...

The CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program’s 2021 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Joy Harjo conducts classroom visits and presents public readings on March 22 and 23 as part of her residency.

Each semester the CalArts Aesthetics and Politics program invites a theorist focusing on media, urban, or global studies to spend up to two weeks at CalArts to teach workshops, faculty seminars and give a public lecture. The spring 2021 Theorist in Residence is writer and scholar McKenzie...

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Robin Myrick (Critical Studies MFA 08) dissects the fraught and highly divided political climate of the US in I Am This State Of Emergency, the first title published by Surveyor Books. I Am This State Of Emergency is a 135-page collection of poems that dial up the strident soundscape of...

On Nov. 8, the short film, Vacuum In Front Of You, co-created by Dean of the CalArts School of Critical Studies Amanda Beech and Diann Bauer was released to the public as part of the art project Tegel: Speculations and Propositions.  In 2011, project curators Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Susanne...