The HFA sat down with Connor Long, the producer Through My Ears, a new podcast by UCSB’s Department of Music. Long discusses his original intent and message behind the podcast, as well as his hopes for how it can continue to grow in the future.
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Dongguk University media and communication professor Ha Sung Hwang’s research focuses on the effects of social media and the role it plays in the global popularity of Korean pop music. In a lecture hosted by UCSB’s East Asia Center, where she is a visiting fellow, she discussed how BTS and its ARMY are contributing to a new and diverse boy band culture fueled by digital power.
As the academic year comes to a close, many stories from this years senior will go unheard as the pandemic forces Commencement to take place online. To highlight some graduates from the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, Noe Padilla an HFA intern, interviewed the Bruhns Twins, Cooper and Calvin, and asked them to reflect on their time at UCSB. Cooper is graduating in Theater and Calvin is graduating in Film and Media Studies.
UCSB history student Michael Sanders recently organized the “Justice for George Floyd: Solidarity March,” to support the Black Lives Matter movement by peacefully protesting against police brutality. He sat down with HFA intern Raymond Matthews to talk about the protest and the experience of Black students.
In a time when a global pandemic has forced educators to design creative solutions to learning at home, UC Santa Barbara Classics professor Dorota Dutsch has partnered with the Goleta Valley Library to digitally recreate Greek Myths for children. The recreations are offered to the public virtually each Friday as part of the library’s newest program: Special Guest Storytime.
Brazil-based author, researcher, and professor Marcos Cueto examined how contradictory and inadequate government responses to epidemics in Latin America have been an historical trend that reappeared during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
HFA conducted an interview with this year’s recipient of the Dean’s Prize Teaching award, Julio Vega. Vega, a PhD candidate teaching assistant in the Classics department, discusses his passion for the classics, his teaching techniques, and his work with the UCSB-Howard University Initiative.
A shout-out to the department of History of Art and Architecture for its recent awards and achievements, including a teaching award, a grant, and book publications.
New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis and Art House Convergence managing director Alison Kozberg say that art house film makers and large film production companies will continue to prioritize streaming over in-person moviegoing once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. They spoke at a recent Carsey-Wolf Center virtual event: "Moviegoing in the Age of COVID-19.
In celebration of Earth Day and the 2020 UCSB Reads selection, author Elizabeth Rush spoke about her book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, to a live virtual audience. She explained that coastal communities in the United States are at risk due to rising sea levels and “retreating” from coastal communities is essential to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Earlier this spring the HFA held a creativity contest with the prompt “Stories That Matter.“ Please celebrate their talent with us and learn more about the winning students and the stories they told with their work in poetry, prose, music, videos, visual art, and photography.
“Numbers,” by Connor Ding won first place in the prose category of UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts spring creativity contest, in response to the prompt “Stories That Matter.“ The personal essay is about Ding’s family back in China during the winter weeks of the novel Coronavirus outbreak.
An essay in memory of survivors of the Holocaust and its lasting impacts. This piece won second place in the prose category of the HFA Creativity Contest and is a call to continue to interrogate what the Holocaust represents for us today.
“This is Not a Drill" won third place in the prose category of UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts spring creativity contest, in response to the prompt “Stories That Matter.“ The spoken word play focuses on school shootings and spreading awareness about the March For Our Lives movement.
Earlier this spring UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts conducted a creativity contest with the prompt “Stories That Matter.“ Click here to read our full coverage of the contest. Listed below are the winners in the visual art and photography categories.
The following are the winners in visual art:
First Place:
Former Slave Cabin Disguised as a Tool Shed on My 5th Great-Grandfather’s Plantation by Marshall Sharpe
Marshall Sharpe is an MFA candidate in painting.
Second Place:
Brother by Paige Baldwinson
Paige Baldwinson is a second year art major in the College of Creative Studies.
Third Place:
Just a Little Social Anxiety by James Gerety
James Gerety s a fourth year communications major. To see more of Gerety’s artwork check out @cardbordtoaster on Instagram.
Next are the winning photographs:
First Place:
Caylin in Paradise at Yosemite National Park by Andrea Hercules
Andrea Hercules is a second year sociology major.
Second Place:
Untitled by Delenn Jadzia
Delenn Jadzia is a third year triple major in chemistry, anthropology, and writing and literature.
Earlier this spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts conducted a creativity contest on the theme “Stories That Matter.“ Explore the winning pieces in the video and music categories, including “What Would You Say” by Delenn Jadzia, “Days—An Experimental Narrative” by Jesse Camacho, “HAWAII” by Andy Arciaga, “First Love” by Jim Dyson, and “Canary” by Delenn Jadzia.
Earlier this spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts conducted a creativity contest on the theme “Stories That Matter.“ Read the winning pieces in the poetry category here, including “re-forest-ation” by Forest Stuart, “Children of the Concrete” by Junho Jeon, and “Adulation to Him” by Monica Cornejo.
UC Santa Barbara’s music department is adapting online teaching methods to create virtual solo and chamber music sessions in light of COVID-19 social distancing measures.
At her virtual Friday evening book launch, UC Santa Barbara writing lecturer and former ballerina Ellen O’Connell Whittet spoke to over a hundred colleagues, friends, family, and students over Zoom about her new memoir: What You Become in Flight. O’Connell Whittet described how ballet normalizes “sacrificing the body, to contort it into something perfect” and why a career-ending injury made her consider how this principle impacted her life.
Though Carsey Wolf Center is unable to hold in-person film screenings this quarter due to COVID-19, post-film conversations with media experts from past screenings are available online. Catch up on previous discussions about filmmaking as Pollock Theater showcases past events as a weekly “Series Spotlight.”