Art student Jasmin Tupy hosted an art show gallery in her Isla Vista home last month featuring several other student artists – to showcase the talents of the college town next to UC Santa Barbara.
Holly Roose, the director of UCSB’s Promise Scholars Program, works with high-achieving, first-generation students from low-income households to ensure their academic success. As director, she advises students, makes sure they hit their academic marks, supports them to overcome life difficulties, and helps them plan for future careers.
Americans created a criminal punishment system based on the model of quarantine in which the poor and people of color are disproportionately isolated and contained, “treated as a pathogen,” Sharon Daniel, a professor at UC Santa Cruz and media artist, told the UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT) graduate program. Now, in the 21st century, the COVID-19, has both exposed and intensified the injustices of the criminal system, Daniel said as she walked through her interactive art documentary “EXPOSED: Documenting COVID-19 in the Criminal Punishment System.”
Yin Yu, a graduate student in UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program, debuted her 3D fusion of biology and technology recently at the Art Department’s Glassbox Gallery. Yu’s pieces “OctoAnenome” and “SoftVoss” are a representation of her desire to portray the potential of robots to behave realistically with life-like motions.
In celebration of Women's History Month, UC Santa Barbara's Humanities and Fine Arts division hosted a panel entitled "The Wisdom of Women," in which two faculty members stressed uplifting and recovering female voices that are not often heard in mainstream discussions of women in history. UCSB undergraduate student Colleen Coveney, engaged author and English professor Cherríe Moraga and History professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia in an insightful discussion that ranged from the panelists' personal histories to the difficulties they encounter in academic circles.
UC Santa Barbara history professors Anthony Barbieri and Sherene Seikaly were recently awarded $60,000 each by the National Humanities Alliance to further their research on the ancient Han Dynasty and Levantine mobility, respectively.
UC Santa Barbara second-year dance and biology double major Riley Haley balances being a full-time student and performing with the Santa Barbara Dance Theater, a professional dance company. Though she must devote a significant chunk of her time to these academic and artistic passions, she is grateful to UCSB that she does not have to choose between the two.