CalArts has five reasons to celebrate this week. TIME magazine's inaugural TIME100 Art list, a new ranking of the most influential figures in the art world, includes five artists and curators with ties to the Valencia school, placing the institute at the center of one of the year's most talked-about art lists. The CalArtians recognized are photographer Catherine Opie, cited in the Icon category; curator Adriano Pedrosa, an Art-Critical Studies MFA graduate from 1995; artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who earned his Art MFA in 2004; sculptor Lauren Halsey, named an Innovator; and David Hammons, who attended Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts' predecessor, in the 1960s. Together they represent a remarkable range across mediums, from Opie's landmark portrait photography to Pedrosa's leadership in global curating and Halsey's community-rooted sculptural practice. TIME launched the TIME100 Art list this year as an extension of its long-running TIME100 franchise, aiming to spotlight the artists, curators and cultural leaders shaping the current moment. Inclusion is a marker of broad cultural visibility as much as art-world standing, and the list has been widely shared and debated since its publication. For the five CalArts-connected honorees, it signals recognition that reaches well beyond gallery audiences. The school highlighted the news on its news site 24/7 CalArts, noting the span of generations and disciplines represented. Hammons' presence links the school back to its Chouinard roots, while Nguyen and Halsey represent more recent generations of graduates whose practices are reshaping what contemporary art can look like and whom it serves. Few schools anywhere could claim such a spread of figures on a single list.