http://news.ucsc.edu/rss/arts.html?utm_medium=rsshttp://news.ucsc.edu/rss/arts.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 21 May 2013 19:00:26 -0700Santa CruzTwo decades ago, UCSC film professor B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” to describe a new type of film making its debut at film festivals featuring lesbian and gay protagonists. Her latest book offers new thoughts on the topic and also brings together the best of Rich’s writing on the genre.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/rich-lincoln-center.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 21 May 2013 16:20:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/rich-lincoln-center.html?utm_medium=rssUC Santa Cruz will pilot the first annual Middle School Summit on Tuesday, May 21, as part of the Santa Cruz County College Commitment--bringing up to 350 local students to the university campus.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/whittingham-school-summit.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 15 May 2013 13:20:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/whittingham-school-summit.html?utm_medium=rssOutstanding presentations at the Graduate Research Symposium were honored at the Awards Reception.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/graduate-research-awards.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 14 May 2013 01:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/graduate-research-awards.html?utm_medium=rssIt is with sadness and respect that we announce the loss of our colleague, friend, and mentor Fredric Lieberman, professor of music, who passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2013http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/in-memorium-lieberman.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 07 May 2013 11:45:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/in-memorium-lieberman.html?utm_medium=rssThe UC Santa Cruz Good Neighbor Initiative Program will present a free Community Arts Festival at Abbott Square--outside the Museum of Art & History in downtown Santa Cruz--on Saturday, May 11, from 12 to 3 p.m. http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/neighbor-arts-festival.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 02 May 2013 14:15:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/neighbor-arts-festival.html?utm_medium=rssGraduate students from all five academic divisions at UCSC will present their research on Friday, May 10.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/graduate-research-symposium.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 02 May 2013 01:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/graduate-research-symposium.html?utm_medium=rssUCSC’s Ted Warburton will give the Arts Division’s 2013 Outstanding Faculty Research Lecture May 16, plus direct a faculty dance concert with guest Bay Area alumni and students, May 24-June 2.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/warburton-dance.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 01 May 2013 13:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/05/warburton-dance.html?utm_medium=rssThey made a Britney Spears song sound hip. They sent machetes flying, flung yo-yos, and danced fingers over the keys of a grand piano. On a recent Friday night in the Stevenson Event Center, 20 of UC Santa Cruz's most creative student performers came together for the premiere of UCSC's Got Talent. http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/ucsc-got-talent.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 29 Apr 2013 01:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/ucsc-got-talent.html?utm_medium=rssUCSC’s Shakespeare Santa Cruz has joined forces with Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre Company to present two one-act plays by Harold Pinter, running April 25 through May 19, at the Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/shakespeare-jewelll-collaboration.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 23 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/shakespeare-jewelll-collaboration.html?utm_medium=rssThe Eloise Pickard Smith Galleries at Cowell College will present In Her Place: Visual Narratives by Bonnie Stone, an exhibition opening April 26 and running through June 22 on the UCSC campus. http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/stone-cowell-exhibition.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 17 Apr 2013 14:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/stone-cowell-exhibition.html?utm_medium=rssAmplified CB radios, playable wrestling games about nutrition, and buildings that grow in the dark are just a few of the things you’ll encounter at “ground (ctrl)”—opening April 27 at UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center (DARC building).http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/danm-exhibition.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/danm-exhibition.html?utm_medium=rssThe UCSC Arts Division will present a day-long public event to help plan a groundbreaking new interdisciplinary Institute of the Arts and Sciences on Friday, April 26.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/arts-science-institute.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 10 Apr 2013 12:50:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/arts-science-institute.html?utm_medium=rssExcitement is building for UCSC's premiere alumni event, April 26-28, which is packed with reunions, celebrations, receptions, and opportunities. http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/alumni-weekend-2013-go-to-your-happy-place.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 20 Mar 2013 11:07:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/alumni-weekend-2013-go-to-your-happy-place.html?utm_medium=rssShakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Marco Barricelli today announced the line-up for the acclaimed UCSC theater company’s 32nd season. http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/shakespeare-new-season.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 19 Mar 2013 17:30:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/shakespeare-new-season.html?utm_medium=rss“Kite”--a 1997 painting by UC Santa Cruz alumna Belle Yang—is the featured art on the cover of the just released Spring 2013 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/belle-yang-catamaran.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 18 Mar 2013 13:10:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/belle-yang-catamaran.html?utm_medium=rssThousand Gates, a concert featuring two new works by UC Santa Cruz professor of music Hi Kyung Kim, is set to be performed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on April 7.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/kim-smithsonian.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 14 Mar 2013 13:20:00 -0700http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/kim-smithsonian.html?utm_medium=rssA new book by UCSC professors Lewis Watts (Art) and Eric Porter (History, American Studies) maps the changing cultural scene in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit the Crescent City in the summer of 2005.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/new-orleans-book.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 06 Mar 2013 13:15:00 -0800http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/03/new-orleans-book.html?utm_medium=rssUC Santa Cruz alumnus Rick Carter won an Oscar Sunday for production design on Steven Speilberg’s acclaimed film, Lincoln. This marks the second academy award for the former UCSC art major.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/carter-academy-award.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 25 Feb 2013 15:25:00 -0800http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/carter-academy-award.html?utm_medium=rssHeld on campus for the first time in five years, the Scholarship Benefit Dinner featured a rousing, Banana Slug-centric address by Kevin Beggs, president of Lionsgate Television Group, with hit shows including "Mad Men" and "Weeds."http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/scholarship-benefit-dinner-2013-celebration.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 25 Feb 2013 01:00:00 -0800http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/scholarship-benefit-dinner-2013-celebration.html?utm_medium=rssHenrik Ibsen’s play "Peer Gynt" has been staged at theaters across the world since its premiere in 1876—as well as at an insane asylum in Iceland, in the Wild West, on a German boat, and in a Scottish pub.http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/peer-gynt.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 21 Feb 2013 11:50:00 -0800http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/02/peer-gynt.html?utm_medium=rss