Arts
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UC Santa Cruz art exhibition to feature distinctive works by new faculty
The Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa Cruz will kick off the new year with Faculty Works: 2003, an exhibition featuring the distinctive work of three new members of the art faculty. This diverse show, running January 15 through February 15, will include contemporary photography, painting, and installation by Melissa Gwyn, Lewis Watts, and Elliot…
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Banana slug inspires new children’s book dedicated to UC Santa Cruz campus mascot
A chance encounter with a banana slug on a rainy-day visit to UC Santa Cruz has inspired the plot of a brand-new children’s book dedicated to the campus mascot. Sally Slug, written by Anne Neufeld Levin and illustrated by Patricia Rebele, explores a day in the life of a colorful banana slug family that lives…
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Two UCSC faculty members receive Fulbright Scholar Awards
Two faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been honored with Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2002-03 academic year. Kathy Foley, professor of theater arts, and Hi Kyung Kim, associate professor of music, join approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to 140 countries over the next year through…
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UCSC Wind Ensemble to perform in Australia at Sydney Opera House
The UCSC Wind Ensemble has been invited to represent the United States at the 2003 International Music Festival to be held next June at the renowned Opera House in Sydney, Australia. An offshoot of the 1986 World Expo held in Brisbane, the festival brings a variety of concert bands, choirs, orchestras, jazz, and string ensembles…
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UCSC Theater Arts Instructor responds to arts funding cuts in community school with innovative teaching program
Renowned dance choreographer, performer and teacher Tandy Beal has performed in major cities and festivals on four continents. She has created works for dance, film, circus, television, theater, animation, and even half-time for the San Francisco 49ers! But when she heard last summer that a public school in her community was facing major funding cuts…
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‘Reality’ in art explored in UCSC lecture and film screening
The explosion of “reality” shows during the last few years might make the viewing public think realism is a concept recently invented by television networks. But in “200 Years of Reality Shows,” a talk by University of California, Santa Cruz, dean of humanities, Wlad Godzich, true realism in the arts is revealed as something far…
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30 years of book arts and printmaking in UC Santa Cruz exhibit
The discovery of an old printing press led to 30 years of fine-press printing now celebrated in a new exhibition at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “Interpreting the Words,” an exhibit of student work created on the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz, will be on display at the McHenry Library from October 2…
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African liberation movement posters exhibited at UC Santa Cruz
The exhibition could be summed up by one featured image: a larger-than-life-sized portrait of a young Nelson Mandela, on a blazing yellow background, under the headline “The struggle is my life.” “A Luta Continúa: African Liberation Movement Posters,” the current exhibition at the McHenry Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses period posters…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley to speak at UC Santa Cruz
She’s well known for her novels, but when writer Jane Smiley speaks at the Dickens Universe conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, it will be in a different guise: As a biographer of the man himself, Charles Dickens. Smiley, author of Charles Dickens (New York: Viking Press, 2002), will read from and discuss…
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UC Santa Cruz student work chosen for international arts festival Healing from September 11 explored through dance in “Bodies in Crisis”
A dance performance that started as an experimental production by University of California, Santa Cruz, students will be featured next month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the largest arts festivals in the world. Bodies in Crisis, a compilation of 10 dance poems exploring the emotional, political, and artistic ramifications of the September 11…
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Early film theory book features ongoing debates
Are movies art, or entertainment? Does watching violent films encourage violent behavior in teenagers? Should movies be censored? These questions are being debated today, but they were also posed nearly 100 years ago by Hugo Münsterberg, a German psychologist who came to America and fell under the enchantment of the new medium called the “photoplay.”…