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EVENT FULL! A Campus Walk with artist collective Public Doors and Windows

Join alumni and current students as they talk about the sites that make UC Santa Cruz memorable
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
DIGITAL ARTS RESEARCH CENTER (UCSC)
Presented by: 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences

See the campus you know and love through a unique experiential walk with the artist collective Public Doors and Windows. The walk will include stops chosen by both alumni and current students that are important to their experiences and memories of UC Santa Cruz.

Whether at the site where the student Astronomy Club gathers to stargaze on clear nights or at the art studio that inspired the curatorial career of an alumna, the stops along the walk will provide a rare and personal glimpse of a campus that has had an immeasurable impact on its community. At each of the six stops along the walk, alumni or present students will tell the stories that show how the university shaped them.

Please join is on April 24 for the lovely and stimulating stroll. We will meet in front of the Digital Arts Research Center at 2 PM. Parking is available in the adjacent Performing Arts Lot for $4. Wear comfortable shoes!

About the Artists:

Public Doors and Windows is a collaborative artist team made up of Harrell Fletcher, Molly Sherman, and Nolan Calisch. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Together they create participatory and site-specific projects that engage with and include local people and the broad public. The walk is part of a larger project undertaken by the artists to create a 'collective museum' out of the UC Santa Cruz campus, using the techniques of display ad meaning making usually associated with museums to think about the university and what is happening within it.

The artists are documenting the collections already held on campus while also getting different people– staff, faculty, students, and alumni– to pick sites that are meaningful in some way, either in regards to their research, to the history of UCSC, or for more personal reasons. Those sites and collections are photographed, marked with a plaque, and included in the 'museum tour' of the campus that will launch in February 2016. The information about each site will be archived online, in a 'museum catalogue,' as well as in exhibition walls spread around campus. 

For more information on the project and the artists:

http://ias.ucsc.edu/projects/collective-museum