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The center of campus life is a sprawling five-level, 500,000-square-foot building, where, according to Walt Disney's original vision for CalArts, different artistic disciplines share space under one roof. This structure houses classrooms, art studios, animation studios, music rehearsal rooms and dance studios; galleries, theaters for drama, dance and film, and a music hall; costume, scenery and machine shops; photo labs, computer and media labs, editing suites for film and video, and a digital recording studio; a library and a cafeteria.
Other buildings on the CalArts campus include the Chouinard dormitory, the Ahmanson apartment complex, the Eli and Edythe Broad graduate art studios, and several annexes filled with additional classrooms, studios, a writing lab and other facilities. Tennis courts and an outdoor swimming pool are available throughout the year, while spacious lawns dotted with shade trees, open fields and sloping hillsides allow for quiet reading or casual sports.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
CalArts students have access to the vast artistic and cultural offerings of Los Angeles, the second-largest metropolitan center in the U.S. A place where diverse cultures and traditions meet, and an increasingly important world hub in a variety of artmaking disciplines, the city has an abundance of performing arts organizations and venues, museums, galleries, libraries and research institutions. Los Angeles also offers numerous educational and professional resources in all branches of the arts, making it possible for CalArts students to not only experience artmaking at the highest levels, but also seek out future professional opportunities in the region.
Artistic And Cultural Resources
Selected Museums:
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Getty Center http://www.getty.edu/
Norton Simon Museum http://www.nortonsimon.org/
UCLA Hammer Museum http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/
Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens http://www.huntington.org/
Santa Monica Museum of Art http://www.smmoa.org/
Museum of Latin American Art http://www.molaa.com/
Pacific Asia Museum http://www.janm.org/
Southwest Museum http://www.southwestmuseum.org/
Fowler Museum of Cultural History http://www.skirball.org/index.asp
Museum of Tolerance http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot/
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles http://www.nhm.org/
Museum of Television and Radio http://www.mtr.org/
Museum of Jurassic Technology http://www.mjt.org/
Selected Performance Venues:
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)
Walt Disney Concert Hall http://wdch.laphil.com/home.cfm
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion http://www.musiccenter.org/venue_dcp.html
Ahmanson Theatre
Mark Taper Forum
Hollywood Bowl
Zipper Concert Hall
UCLA Royce Hall
Geffen Playhouse http://www.geffenplayhouse.com/
Pasadena Playhouse http://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre http://www.fordamphitheater.org/en/home/index.asp
South Coast Repertory Theatre South Coast Repertory Theatre
Orange County Performing Arts Center http://www.ocpac.org/
Cerritos Performing Arts Center http://www.cerritoscenter.com/
Shrine Auditorium
Pantages Theater
The Wiltern
The Kirk Douglas Theater
Staples Center
Selected Arts Organizations and Resources:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Music Center of Los Angeles County
Centre Theatre Group
Theatre League Alliance of Southern California (Theatre LA)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Getty Research Institute
MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Watts Towers Arts Center
Plaza de la Raza
Armory Center for the Arts
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles
Other Resources:
More than
100 art galleries
60 mid-size theaters
50 jazz venues
25 African, Latin and world music venues
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