Originally a literary arts magazine club, The Catalyst magazine now offers a four-unit course at UCSB, providing creative collaboration as a means to fulfill the unit requirement. UC Santa Barbara undergraduate student Renee Whalen delves into how mixing poetry and art in this course changed her relationship with writing.
Carly Maris, UC Riverside faculty member, tells about bringing her research from the Middle East to Southern California.
Fabio Rambelli, the chair of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara, organized a series of workshops exploring the music, dance, costumes, and history of Gagaku, the music and dance of the Japanese Imperial Court. The workshops, held last week, were led by the Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble, a small group of renowned musicians from Japan.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a political art installation that memorializes 3,200 migrants who died in their attempts to cross the Sonoran Desert at the Arizona-Mexico border. It has had a meaningful impact on the UCSB students who have participated in it since it opened in January at UCSB’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum.
Aaron Huey recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara about his journey from impassioned photojournalist to leader of one of one of the world’s largest art movements.
The talk, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center was titled “Art as Compass,” and catalogued how Huey went from taking photos for National Geographic to founding Amplifier.org, a non-profit dedicated to the mass dissemination of art which amplifies voices that otherwise would go unheard.
Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist discusses how she uses narrative techniques with historical arguments to explain modern political and social issues. The presentation was sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s History Department.
