Author: Scott Rappaport
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UCSC alumna thrives promoting arts and humanities in Obama White House
“I often say, only partly facetiously, that I have the best job in Washington D.C.,” notes UC Santa Cruz alumna Rachel Goslins, executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues.
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UCSC and Cabrillo music faculty collaborate for ‘Women Over the Edge’
The UCSC Arts Division’s first concert of the academic year kicks off on October 19 with “Women Over the Edge,” an evening of song that deliberately blurs the boundaries between classical and popular music.
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Arts alum to present sneak preview of feature film at UCSC
UC Santa Cruz arts alumnus Jacob Estes (’94 Media Studies) will present a special advance screening of his latest film “The Details” on Thursday, October 4, at UCSC’s Media Theater.
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Art professor to showcase photos from New Orleans and Cuba
UC Santa Cruz art professor and photographer Lewis Watts will share photos from both New Orleans and Cuba in New Orleans Suite, an exhibition opening October 3 at the Porter College Sesnon Gallery.
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Linguistics grad off to Germany on Fulbright Scholarship
2012 UCSC Linguistics graduate Kelsey Kraus will spend the next year living and working in Germany as the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents work of John Jota Leaños
“Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta”–a bilingual multi-media opera by UCSC assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños–will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 14-16.
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UCSC’s DANM program to be featured at ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose
UCSC”s Digital Arts and New Media program (DANM) will showcase campus projects at the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial—an international festival featuring work at the intersection of art and technology—that takes place in Silicon Valley and around the Bay Area, September 12 to December 8.
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UCSC taps Tang Museum director to lead innovative museum project
The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division announced today that John Weber—currently Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York—has been hired to guide the development of a new institute of the arts and sciences.
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History Dept. to host international conference on Chinese culture
A group of internationally renowned scholars will convene to explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives on September 7-8 at UC Santa Cruz.
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Humanities professors awarded UC Presidential Chair
Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker and Literature professor Karen Yamashita have been appointed to a UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies on the UCSC campus.
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Crossing the boundaries of media-focused computer science, digital humanities and arts
Interaction between media-focused computer science, the digital humanities and digital arts have the potential to drive major progress in interactive media creation and understanding.
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UCSC names Sarah Latham to oversee Business and Administrative Services
The UC Regents have approved the appointment of Sarah Latham as Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services (BAS), at the University of California, Santa Cruz.