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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.”
T.J. Demos, a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told Hyperallergic that he believes the trope of art history graduates as unemployable is “commonly exaggerated in the media.” Recent data shows dips in unemployment rates for art history college graduates,…
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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.