Arts
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UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures director offers up her second season of innovative programming
It’s only fitting that the UC Santa Cruz 2003-04 Arts & Lectures season kicks off with the Turtle Island String Quartet performing a tribute to legendary trumpet player Miles Davis. Crossing boundaries and merging genres is the order of the day as UCSC’s innovative performing arts presenter offers up a brand new lineup of 23…
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Community artists create new UCSC art award
In the mid-1970s, Peter Thomas was introduced to the art of making books by William Everson, then the newly hired poet laureate for Kresge College at UC Santa Cruz. As one of Everson’s crew of five students, he would help turn out “fine press” works of literature on an old Ben Franklin-style platen press. Student…
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New book by UCSC lecturer reveals qualities shared by world’s most successful musicians
What makes the great musicians great? That’s the very first sentence and the premise of The Mastery of Music, a new book by UC Santa Cruz lecturer Barry Green. Drawing from more than 120 personal interviews with revered performers such as Dave Brubeck, Bobby McFerrin, Christopher Parkening, Doc Severinsen, and Joshua Bell, Green discusses 10…
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UCSC acquires new teaching tool for opera students
UC Santa Cruz opera students may find preparing for their roles a bit easier in the future thanks to a new teaching tool just donated to the campus library. Opera Practice Perfect is a comprehensive audio catalog of 209 CDs, including 20 operas in both complete versions and broken into operatic roles, and 15 discs…
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Santa Cruz Film Festival spotlights UCSC faculty on May 30
The Santa Cruz Film Festival will spotlight works by faculty of the UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Department on Friday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Media Theater on the campus. Admission is $8 general, $7 students. The program will include selected personal films by department chair Chip Lord, Associate Professor Lawrence…
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UC Santa Cruz honors 2003 Irwin Scholars at Sesnon Art Gallery
Julia DeGuzman decided to apply to UC Santa Cruz four years ago during a trip down from Oakland to visit friends on campus. “I saw the Art Department and I thought to myself, this is where I’d like to create my work,” the 21-year-old senior recalled. Apparently, she made the right decision. DeGuzman has been…
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Spring celebration of the arts at UC Santa Cruz on May 18
Jazz, opera, dance, sculpture, 3-D art, literary readings, Latin American songs, and Shakespearean theater will emanate from the tranquil gardens of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum on Sunday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s all part of “Art in the Arboretum,” the annual spring celebration of creativity held on the university campus.…
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Art history professor awarded Fulbright-Hays research grant to study in Africa
Elisabeth L. Cameron, assistant professor of art history, has been honored with a Fulbright-Hays research grant to study African culture for the 2003-04 academic year. She is one of only 33 faculty nationwide to receive this prestigious award. Cameron will travel to Zambia in September to examine the visual culture, gender roles, and power relationships…
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Kodak grants help keep film alive at UC Santa Cruz
A $2,000 grant from the Eastman Kodak Company will help keep film alive in the UC Santa Cruz digital arts program. The grant, which takes the form of Kodak motion picture camera film, was awarded in recognition of the overall program quality of the UCSC Film and Digital Media Department. This marks the third consecutive…
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UCSC to present Pacific Rim Festival April 2-30 featuring works of over 40 distinguished composers
UC Santa Cruz will present the work of more than 40 distinguished composers April 2-30 at the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival, a month-long international celebration of the contemporary music of the Pacific Rim. The festival will include 12 performances of seven different programs that will take place at the Music Center Recital Hall on…
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Folksinger Rosalie Sorrels to give free concert at UC Santa Cruz Library
Folksinger, storyteller, and social activist Rosalie Sorrels will present a free public concert, Friday, February 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the UC Santa Cruz Library’s Special Collections. Social activist will donate peace quilt to archives in Special Collections During the event, Sorrels will officially present the Peace Quilt […]
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Actress/professor to direct award-winning Mexican play at UC Santa Cruz
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, a play by one of Mexico’s most vital modern playwrights, has been a huge success story for Mexican theater. Its premiere production earned seven awards from the Mexican Critics Association in 1994, including Best New Play of the Year, and the show was eventually made into an award-winning…