About
History
The Arts Division offers both creative and critical studies of art and culture at the undergraduate and graduate level. The division is committed to creating a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all students to thrive and to celebrating the abundance of diversity in our community.
Welcome to the
Arts Division
Mission
At UCSC, the Arts Division is home to students, faculty and staff who work towards transforming the world through the power of artistic production and the critical, historical and analytic study of the arts. We are creating new knowledge that impacts the world through innovation that is inclusive and excellence that is equitable.
Facts & Figures
18,980
17,084 Undergraduates 1,896 Graduate Students 2021-2022 year
150+
events our arts and humanities programs host each year
2,000
acres overlooking scenic Monterey Bay, California
87%
of student enrollment profile: California residents
9%
of student enrollment profile: International
4%
of student enrollment profile: Domestic, out of state
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.
