california institute of the arts


California Institute of the Arts

aka: Calarts

Located in the master-planned community of Valencia near Lancaster. Founded in the late 1960’s by disney walt as an animation trade school which would bring artists from several media into carefully controlled proximity of one another. One of the first American colleges to focus only on arts education. One rumor suggests that the charmless architecture of the main building was designed so it could serve as a hospital should the school fail financially. Another suggests that the cryogenically preserved head of Walt Disney, who died just before the school’s opening in 1970, is stored in a subterranian vault beneath the main building.

Familiarity with the Insititute’s unfortunate architecture quickly proves it’s inability to conceal anything so interesting. However when the campus was heavily damaged in the 1994 Silmar earthquake, some classes were held in former high-security Lockheed hangers.

Links

http://calarts.edu/

http://www.grimsociety.com/mausoleum/wdisney.html

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