Art
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Art professor to screen new documentary film at Museum of Modern Art
UC Santa Cruz art professor and multimedia artist Elizabeth Stephens and her artistic collaborator Annie Sprinkle will present their latest film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Question Bridge: Black Males exhibition opens Feb. 6 at Sesnon Art Gallery
‘Question Bridge: Black Males’ is an exhibition in which a wide array of videos have been merged together to simulate face-to-face conversations between a diverse group of more than 160 black men across the United States.
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Art professor receives 2019 Creative Capital Award plus SFFILM artist residency for new documentary film
UC Santa Cruz professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has received a 2019 Creative Capital Award for “Run With It,” a feature-length animated documentary film she is currently working on in collaboration with San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences to present talk by politically provocative artist Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, which draw on the words of such diverse figures as Richard Pryor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein. On Jan. 15, the Institute of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Ligon at UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center
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An art pioneer gets his due
“Eduardo Carrillo: Testament of the Spirit,” a posthumous exhibition of a beloved and pioneering UC Santa Cruz art professor and muralist, is now on display in Santa Clara’s Triton Museum of Art.
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Last chance to see ‘Forest Law’ by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares at UC Santa Cruz
Forest Law 2014, a 38-minute multi-channel video installation and photo text assemblage based on research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is currently on display at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery through December 1.
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Getty Research Institute and PBS feature work by alumna book artist Felicia Rice
On October 20, The Getty Research Institute will present the world premiere screening of Visionaries, the newest episode from PBS’s award-winning documentary series, Craft in America. UC Santa Cruz arts alumna Felicia Rice is featured in that episode.
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Bay Area’s ‘Soundwave’ festival to feature work by UC Santa Cruz arts faculty and alumnae
“Soundwave ((8)) Infrastructure” runs September through October with six curated performances throughout San Francisco and Oakland. It kicks off on Sept. 8, at Counter Plus in San Francisco with “HVAC: Thermal Comfort,” a new work by art lecturer and alumna Dana Hemenway and San Francisco media artist and composer Surabhi Saraf.
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UC Santa Cruz receives grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a $57,000 grant to the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
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Gallery between North and South Korea features exhibition by art professor Jimin Lee
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea is an unlikely setting for an art gallery. Established in 1953 as part of an armistice agreement that ended three years of brutal war, the DMZ is a 2.5-mile-wide band that runs 155 miles across the Korean peninsula, serving as a buffer zone between the…
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Five UC Santa Cruz students present futuristic game at IndieCade Showcase
A group of five students from UC Santa Cruz presented their game, “Meet Me in the Garden,” at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last week as part of the annual IndieCade Showcase.
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Commencement stories: Vincent Williams
Vincent Williams uses graphic design, sculptural installations, collage, and photography to comment on the history of black identity both in the United States and in Western art.