Apply to California Institute of the Arts

1. What informs your artmaking practice? 2. Why are you applying to the Acting program at CalArts? 3. What are your artistic goals? 4. What stories are you most interested in telling, and/or what communities do you hope to reach through your work? 5. What do you find artistically inspiring about the current moment in history?

Applicants should address at least three of the following: your primary sources of artistic inspiration; your reasons for applying to the program and what you expect from the CalArts experience; specific faculty members you wish to study with and why; and the desired impact of your work on communities and audiences.

1. What is most important to you as a person and as a dancer, and why? 2. What are your artistic and personal goals? 3. Why are you applying to the BFA in Dance Program at CalArts?

1. What inspires you to make your art? 2. Why are you applying to the Character Animation program at CalArts? 3. What are your artistic goals?

1. What issues and concerns inform your artmaking practice? 2. Why are you interested specifically in the program in Experimental Animation at CalArts? 3. What are your artistic goals?

1. What issues and concerns inform your artmaking practice? 2. Elaborate on your relationship with experimental, independent, or avante garde film making and why you think this program is a good fit for your development as a filmmaker. 3. What are your artistic goals?

Your artist's statement should discuss your goals and their relationship to your past experience, as well as evidence of your interest in performance-based design whether in theater, film, installation, writing, or other related forms.

Your portfolio must include an artist statement of 250 to 500 words that includes all of the following: 1. Your background in the study and practice of music, including a crucial moment in your artistic development. 2. Your main musical passions and artistic influences right now – what you are currently listening to. 3. Genre(s) of music you are interested in performing and studying. 4. What you are interested in exploring or experimenting with at CalArts. 5. What attracts you to the particular Specialization to which you are applying. You may include a CalArts class, faculty, and/or offering that excites you the most. 6. Your long-term goals as a professional musician.