12 Facts About CalArts

CalArts students develop their own work, over which they retain control and copyright, in a workshop atmosphere.

CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music .

CalArts moved to its new campus in Valencia, now part of the city of Santa Clarita, California, in November 1971.

In 2008, CalArts named the School of Music for Alpert, in recognition of his ongoing support.

CalArts offers various undergraduate and graduate degrees in programs that are related to and combine music, art, dance, film, animation, theater, and writing.

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Many CalArts alumni have inserted references to it in their works as an homage to this classroom and to CalArts.

In 2003, CalArts built a theater and art gallery in downtown Los Angeles called REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater as part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the Los Angeles Music Center.

In 2013, CalArts opened its John Baldessari Art Studios, which cost $3.

Pejorative term, "CalArts style", gained prominence in the late 2010s to describe a thin-line animation style that spread around the world during this period.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw on The Daily Dot wrote that many animation fans that deride the "CalArts style" do so only when it is associated with shows that appear to promote, in their views, "Tumblr culture" that favors progressive views.

Art critic Dave Hickey critiqued the art program of CalArts by suggesting that the variety of reference that students are exposed to is limited to a certain pantheon.

CalArts graduates have joined or started successful pop bands, including: Maryama, Tranquility Bass, The Belle Brigade, The Weirdos, Bedroom Walls, Beelzabubba, Dawn of Midi, Dirtwire, The Rippingtons, Fitz and the Tantrums, Fol Chen, London After Midnight, No Doubt, Mission of Burma, Radio Vago, Oingo Boingo, Acetone, Liars, The Mae Shi, Touche Amore, and Ozomatli.