Category: Arts Research News

Proposal for new program, Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and Humanities, selected for funding by UC President’s Office  Nina Sazevich UCSC News Center A new cross-divisional initiative to prepare graduate students in the Arts and Humanities at UC Santa Cruz from historically underrepresented groups to go on to the professoriate has been selected…

A new class in the Arts Division at the University of California Santa Cruz aims to broaden students’ understanding of careers in the creative economy By Nina Sazevich A first-time course in the UC Santa Cruz Division of the Arts has been introducing students to a wide array of professionals in creative fields to help them…

UC Santa Cruz’s Social Practice Arts Research Center (SPARC) hosts a panel discussion on Locative Non-Fiction Storytelling The UCSC Social Practice Arts Research Center (SPARC) presents… Histories, Places and Technologies: Locative Creative Non-Fiction Storytelling.  Panel discussion: May 24, 2022, 6:00 pm to 8:00pm via Zoom With the advent of new immersive interactive digital media technologies, new opportunities…

Imagining America fellowships – Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) and Joy of Giving Something (JGS) are now open Imagining AmericaThe application period for the 2022-2023 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) and Joy of Giving Something (JGS) student fellowship programs is now open! To learn more about both of these programs, check out the links above or this recording of our…

Indexical, a Santa Cruz-based arts and cultural organization, launches “Landscape & Life” a speaker series and visual arts exhibition California Humanities “Our speaker series expands on some of these themes raised by the artists’ work, extending the idea of landscape into abolitionist anti-incarceration projects, gardening and radical politics, and the documentation of endangered and hidden…

New Publication Pacific Arts, vol. 22, no. 1 released, Co-edited by University of California Santa Cruz’s HAVC Faculty Stacy Kamehiro The Pacific Arts, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 2022) has been released as an open access, peer reviewed, online journal published through the University of California’s eScholarship platform. This special issue focuses on the theme…

University of California Santa Cruz Professor Marianne Weems directs new interactive online performance “I Agree To The Terms” By Nina Sazevich for UC Santa Cruz News Center You can also read more about the performance at NYUSkirball UC Santa Cruz Professor in Performance, Play & Design Marianne Weems, Artistic Director and Founder of the award-winning performance and media ensemble…

University of California Santa Cruz’s Doctoral Candidate Zoe Weldon-Yochim wins esteemed Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship ACLS read more here Zoe Weldon-Yochim Project Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in Art of the United States, 1979-2011 Program Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Department History of Art and Visual Culture Abstract “Atomic Afterlives” examines a selection of American artists…

The UCSC Earth Futures Institute announces new program of undergraduate research opportunities called EFI Frontier Fellowships. The UCSC Earth Futures Institute The UCSC Earth Futures Institute is pleased to announce a new program of undergraduate research opportunities called EFI Frontier Fellowships. Each Frontier Fellowship provides the chance for an undergraduate student to do meaty interdisciplinary…

University of California Santa Cruz professor Isaac Julien’s newest Film Marvellous Entanglement stretches the narrative limits of film Osman Can Yerebakan for the Brooklyn Rail If film is a bearer of time’s chronological build-up, it is also the medium that can best dismantle this supposed linearity. In recent decades, no other artist, perhaps, has dedicated their…