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Video games are spotty at getting Black hair right. Black artists are forging ahead to fix that
In a journey to create better representation in video games AM Darke, a professor in the Department of Performance, Play & Design, designed a new way of animating Black hair.
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Raise a Record-Breaking Sum for Exhibitions and Education
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Albert, the white peacock of Boulder Creek, a symbol of resilience and peace, memorialized in downtown mural
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MASP’s Expansion Opens the Floor to Curatorial Experimentation
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Isaac Julien Dreams Up a Beautiful and Urgent World at the de Young
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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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Professor A.M. Darke creates groundbreaking work in Black representation
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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.