Steven D. Lavigne announced he will be stepping down as president of the California Institute of the Arts in May 2017, after a 29-year tenure. Under Lavigne’s leadership, the institute’s annual fundraising has tripled and its endowment has grown by 476 percent. He also led the effort to build the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), which opened in 2003, and founded CalArts’ Community Arts Partnership (CAP), an award-winning national model that brings the arts to underserved students throughout Los Angeles.
29 June 2015.
