California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) presents the annual CalArts Expo, an institute-wide event featuring interdisciplinary creative work from the CalArts community, ranging from current students to internationally renowned faculty and alumnx creators. Highlighting the creativity of the CalArts community, the event has fostered an environment of immersive, personal, and communal spaces for exhibition and performance. 

Audiences will experience CalArts Expo 2025 throughout 12 student-curated venues across campus, which will feature visual art, music and dance performances, film/video, installation art, lighting sculptures, virtual reality, and multidisciplinary work by over 400 artists. A student-led exhibition, this year’s expo was organized by a team of 15 MFA and BFA producers and curators representing all six CalArts schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater.

CalArts Expo started in 2013 as a small exhibition by students who, in need of space to display their creative work, set up a renegade exhibition in the hallways of CalArts. That exhibition brought an energy to campus for an event that was ambitious, student-led, interdisciplinary, and collaborative. Over the years CalArts Expo has slowly grown to an event that annually supports the work of hundreds of artists representing every artistic discipline at CalArts and connects students with industry professionals. 

CalArts Expo is free and open to the public. Exhibitions and performances run from 2 p.m. to midnight. Artist listings and a detailed schedule will be available at expo.calarts.edu during the week of the event.