| October 19th, 2011 | Sam Breen joined a group of students and graduates presenting “CalArts Plays Itself” (September 29 – October 2, 2011) at PACT Zollvereinin Essen, Germany, one of Europe’s up-and coming culture centers. The show featured original, cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary work, including Breen’s “Trailer Trash Project: Life Meets Art in a Tin Can.” Using a 15-foot inflatable
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| July 21st, 2011 |
Sam and his cousin Sasuke make templates for plywood that will be used to cover the walls and ceiling.
With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon
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| July 19th, 2011 | With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon on the the outskirts of Santa Clarita, where lizards and coyote are almost as plentiful as motorcyclists roaring up the road to the
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| May 28th, 2011 |
Photo credit: 24700, CalArts blog
by Sam Breen
This week I will graduate with my MFA in acting, so we are turning the page on the last chapter of the trailer’s involvement at CalArts.
Every year, the Theatre School sets aside the last two weeks of the academic calendar for [read more]
| May 3rd, 2011 |
Graffiti artist Jose Estrada
Click Here The events at Sam’s trailer kept on coming throughout the Arts In the One World Conference, January 27-29. The 1951 Spartan trailer moved to the CalArts’ front lawn for the event. The trailer is still a work-in-progress; the scheduled
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| February 15th, 2011 | Axle Contemporary's gallery on wheels. Photo credit: Matthew Chase-Daniel, published in the NYTimes Feb. 3, 2011.
CalArts alum Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel transformed a Hostess delivery truck into a mobile art gallery of contemporary art in Santa Fe, NM. Check out the story in the NY Times. See also Axel Contemporary’s
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| February 13th, 2011 |
“On The Subject of Freedom” performed at the Arts In The One World Conference, 2011. Directed by Mersiha Mesihovic, Created with and performed by following: Lindsey Lollie, Amanda McNussen, James DiBrandon Lewis, Andy Robert, Etienne Rivera, Max Mendoza, Javier Gonzalez, Miriam Connor, Jahcobie Cosom and Matt Schumacher.
Growing up under a communist
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| February 10th, 2011 |
Musicians James Brandon Lewis and Erinn Horton play on the Spartan's outdoor stage while multimedia artist Kenyatta A.C. HinkleHinkle works on a current piece.(Not pictured: musician Kevin Robinson)
Dancers Ariana Daub (right) and Erin McCarthy (left)
Events at Sam’s trailer kept on coming throughout the Arts
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| February 6th, 2011 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6oD1M6JCCY”>Mapa
El Mexterminator
When Sam presented The Trailer Trash Project at the Arts in the One World Conference (Jan. 27-29) he heard Guillermo Gómez-Peña give the keynote talk. We thought you might like to read more about this extraordinary performance artist, poet, playwright and teacher.
In the border region between
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| January 18th, 2011 |
Director of the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and CalArts alumnus, Stephen Nowlin (BFA Design 71) has curated a beautiful and multifaceted exhibition, simply titled ENERGY, which is currently on view at Art Center through Jan. 23, 2011.
Nowlin has long been a
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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