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Photo Field Research Quarter: An art-filled road trip across California
Each summer, UC Santa Cruz students spend three weeks on the road in Photo Field Research Quarter, traveling across California to camp, connect with community partners, and create art shaped by the places they visit.
Arts, Music
Jazz Big Band students will perform alongside legendary pianist Benny Green
Lecturer and band leader Charles Hamilton, a Bay Area jazz staple, was Green’s middle school music teacher and arranged his visit to campus.
Arts, Engineering, Humanities
Inspiring Change: UC Santa Cruz launches $750M campaign
The campaign is a collective effort to raise funding to accelerate the campus’s groundbreaking discoveries, create real, lasting solutions to some of the world’s most consequential challenges, and amplify the next generation of leaders and scholars.
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‘The SpongeBob Musical’ soars to great heights at UC Santa Cruz’s main stage
Theater student Madison Charles is a maelstrom of musical theater magnificence. During Saturday night’s production of “The SpongeBob Musical,” this plucky young actor warmed the hearts of audience members by portraying a character saturated with enthusiasm and optimism.
Division News
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Arts Division Welcomes New Faculty Members
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Shaping tomorrow’s visionaries: local high school students experience Art for All at UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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These six documentaries are bringing social issues to light
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UC Santa Cruz foundry marks 50 years with bronze pour and celebration of legacy
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Arts Division Welcomes New Faculty Members
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UC Santa Cruz Division of Undergraduate Education appoints Soraya Murray as new Provost of Porter College
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John Jota Leaños selected as new Interim Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division
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Campus secures funding for innovative research projects addressing climate action and linguistic diversity
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We will not experience the full power of the arts unless access to the means of representation is available to all. And we will not realize the full power of the arts if our iconographies and methodologies are dictated by the very few. So, I am driven to expand access so that authorship, critique and the shaping of what we know can be driven by all, and what we take for granted or natural can shift, and to keep our definition of the arts, fervently open.