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Loving fire with fire: Humor, horniness and happiness inhabit post-CZU film
Five years after the fact, memories of and reflections on the CZU Lightning Complex fires in Santa Cruz County almost always come through a scrim of tragedy and loss — though, as time goes on, that sense of tragedy is, for many, ripening into a…
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Artist Wesley Modes, Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA alumnus and UCSC lecturer, featured in the New York Times
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T.J. Demos, a professor of art history, believes the trope of art history graduates as unemployable is “commonly exaggerated in the media.”
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Bikini Bottom meets redwoods: SpongeBob musical hits stage at UCSC this fall
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David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
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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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Phil Chan is breaking down Asian stereotypes one ballet at a time
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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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Professor Elliot Anderson named the inaugural director of the new AI lab for the Arts Division
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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.