Art
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April in Santa Cruz Creative Music and Arts Festival 2024: “A Time For Change”
The annual month-long celebration of the arts is back at UC Santa Cruz. There will be a dozen performances by talented professionals in art forms including dance, animation and much more.
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The Center for Creative Ecologies presents “Nuclear Nows: Contemporary Art, Radiation, and Militarized Ecologies”
This two-part symposium is the work of Zoe Weldon-Yochim, a Ph.D. Candidate in Visual Studies, in collaboration with T.J. Demos, Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, and will discuss the intersection of contemporary art, militarized ecologies, and nuclear nationalism.
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After Man: Alterhuman Ethics and Poetics at the Climate Change Tipping Point
Join associate professor micha cárdenas for her talk about the meeting point between the end of humanity and contemporary art.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences announces new interdisciplinary initiative on climate change
A new multi-year initiative will bring together arts and science to start a conversation about marine biology and the effects of climate change. The new exhibit is set to premier in 2025, and the project is already in progress as the Friedlaender lab collaborates with nationally recognized artists.
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Institute of the Arts & Sciences announces inaugural artists in the Coha Nowark Art + Science Residency Program
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) announces the launch of the Coha Nowark Art + Science Residency Program, generously funded by Peter Coha (Kresge, 78 mathematics) and Vicki Nowark, and the inaugural artists-in-residence: Imani Jacqueline Brown and Christine Howard Sandoval. The Coha Nowark Art & Science Residency program brings artists and scientists together…
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Art and History of Consciousness Professor Sir Isaac Julien honored in 2023 ArtReview’s Power 100 list
ArtReview, one of the world’s leading contemporary art magazines, has named University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien as the fifth most influential artist in its ArtReview Power 100 list, and prominently mentioned UCSC Anthropology Professor Anna Tsing and Professor Emerita in the History of consciousness and Feminist Studies departments…
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Visualizing Abolition Studies certificate program launches this spring at UCSC
UCSC is set to launch its Visualizing Abolition Studies (VAST) certificate program this spring, helping undergraduates examine and question how society understands and responds to mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad.
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UCSC’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience awards over $4.6 million to support California coastal projects
The UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience has awarded over $4.6 million in funding to 23 UC Santa Cruz research groups for pilot projects and implementation projects supporting efforts to fight climate change in coastal communities across California and beyond. Funds for these grant programs came from the California State Budget Act of 2022-23.
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New algae exhibit in Madrid: a collaboration that inspires
UCSC Arts and Digital Arts & New Media professor Jennifer Parker is the founding director of the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, and co-founder of The Algae Society. Parker along with the Algae Society opened a new exhibit in Madrid titled MIKROS: Un Mundo Oculto.
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Unseen California arts initiative uses NRS reserves as canvas
A new arts initiative aims to connect both professional artists and UC students with the UC Natural Reserve System.
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UCSC welcomes 41 outstanding new faculty members
With the start of the 2022-23 academic year, UC Santa Cruz welcomes 41 new senate faculty members. The research and creative scholarship and expertise brought to our campus by these new faculty colleagues will strengthen existing areas of work and open discovery opportunities.
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UCSC alum creates transformational opportunities in the Arts
Best known for producing the U.S.’s longest running daytime soap opera, “Days of Our Lives,” UCSC alumnus Ken Corday is a nine-time daytime Emmy nominated producer. Corday has ushered in new opportunities for the film department at UCSC, and has now expanded his generosity to the music department.