History of Art & Visual Culture
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UC Santa Cruz arts division hires new faculty for 2025-26 academic year
Assistant professor Clementine Bordeaux will be teaching the history of art and visual culture class. Jonaya Kemper, assistant professor, will be teaching performance, play and design, and creative technologies.
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Are Art History Majors More In Demand Than Computer Scientists?
T.J. Demos, a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz says, “there’s growing evidence that art history graduates possess distinctly marketable skills, including in critical thinking, visual analysis, foreign language training, and wide knowledge of cultural heritage, which employers across sectors are highly interested in.”
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Santa Cruz’s Stripe welcomes artist Rhia Hurt for its July exhibition
“The emotional tension in the work between quiet beauty and planetary emergency echoes the way we experience nature on a human scale,” said Jennifer A.González, professor of art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz.