COMMENCEMENT 1988

The California Institute of the Arts held its 18th annual graduation ceremony Friday on the Graduation Courtyard. Degrees were conferred on 222 students, including 89 graduate degrees.

Keynote Speaker: Steven Lavine, president-elect of CalArts, said: “As a nation, we respect the arts. Perhaps we respect them too much; we intimidate ourselves and then, once intimidated, deny the arts and artists the affection and support necessary for them to survive. CalArts reverses our usual national priorities, placing artists at the center rather than the margin, giving artists a chance to create in ways that might eventually change us all.”