Art Department News
- November 21, 2017
TRACTION art talk to feature influential British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien
TRACTION: Art Talks, a new artist lecture series launched this fall by the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, continues on November 28 with influential British filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist Isaac Julien.
- November 02, 2017
A sound artist, sociologist, evolutionary biologist, and two art curators walk into a room…
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will resume its popular series of LASER talks this fall on campus, Tuesday, November 14, at 7 p.m. in the Digital Arts Research Center.
- October 09, 2017
Nearly 70 percent experience "rent burden" in Santa Cruz County, according to UC Santa Cruz survey results
Nearly 70 percent of renters surveyed in Santa Cruz County experience "rent burden," defined as spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, according to preliminary results of a survey of 1,700 renters across the county conducted by UC Santa Cruz.
- September 29, 2017
Gail Project exhibition studies military occupation of Okinawa through a photographic lens
Now in its fourth year at UC Santa Cruz, The Gail Project was inspired by a collection of photographs taken in 1952 by American Army Captain, Charles Eugene Gail. "The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue" opens on campus October 5 at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery.
- September 26, 2017
Ravens, wolves, and floating orbs: Outdoor artworks enchant visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
Mysterious bronze wolves, giant eucalyptus leaves, and delicate ceramics await visitors to “Art in the Arboretum: Environmental Installations."
- August 03, 2017
At Porter College, art and life intertwine
Public art is part of student life at Porter College, which has maintained a fine-arts focus since its inception in 1969.
- June 23, 2017
UC Santa Cruz faculty awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
Two faculty members from the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division have each received $25,000 Art Works grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to support their latest documentary film projects.
- May 12, 2017
Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium
"Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium" is the title of a free public event that will take place on May 18-19, hosted by the E.A.R.T.H. Lab, a research center of the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz.
- May 05, 2017
UCSC to present environmental video installation at SF’s Minnesota Street Project
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present a dramatic, four-screen video installation in San Francisco, hosted and co-sponsored by Minnesota Street Project, the city’s new contemporary art venue, May 20 through June 24.
- March 27, 2017
Art imitates life: The Black Panther Party and the birth of a comic book series
A Special Collections exhibit organized by graduate students examines the famed Marvel Comics Black Panther series and its connections to black history, including the Black Panther Party.
- March 10, 2017
Reef madness: A coral grows at UC Santa Cruz
Hundreds of students and community members are contributing their handiwork to the Crochet Coral Reef, a massive participatory art project that combines higher geometry with handicraft while calling attention to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
- February 02, 2017
Crochet coral reef exhibition to open Feb. 10 at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
"Crochet Coral Reef: CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean," an exhibition by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, is an artistic response to global warming and the growing problem of plastic trash accumulating in the ocean.
