Steven Gross, a professor of French Horn who heads the Woodwind, Brass and Percussion program at UC Santa Barbara, is currently the only full-time horn professor within the University of California system. In a recent phone interview, he discussed the career journey that led him to UCSB, as well as his latest projects.
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.
Jesse Miller, a postdoctoral fellow of English and medical humanities at UCSB, is teaching an English course this spring called U.S. Cultures of Mental Illness. In a recent interview, Miller discussed his goals in designing the course and its relevance in the current social climate that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Academic Senate has recognized Art professor Kip Fulbeck’s many achievements with the 2019-2020 Faculty Diversity Award. Fulbeck is renowned for his groundbreaking exhibition and book “The Hapa Project,” which ran for 15 years and featured raw portraits of multiethnic individuals and their personal stories about being mixed-race.
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.
This spring, UCSB English lecturer Brian Donnelly is teaching a course on dystopian fiction with themes that apply to the conditions students face during the COVID-19 crisis. In a recent Zoom interview, he said his initial apprehension proved unfounded as the course created a place for students to creatively engage with this time in their lives.
The Classics department may be one of the smallest at UC Santa Barbara, yet it houses one of the most highly sophisticated and intensive fields of study. For graduate student and classics PhD candidate Olga Faccani, a passion for studying friendship ties within Greek tragedies has earned her a spot as a participant in Harvard University’s Institute for World Literature (IWL) this upcoming summer.
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.
While social media can turn the COVID-19 pandemic into a creativity contest, UCSB English major Sarah Danielzadeh learned from Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that it’s normal to feel unmotivated during this period of chaos.
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:
Marshall Sharpe is an MFA candidate in painting.
Paige Baldwinson is a second year art major in the College of Creative Studies.
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:
Andrea Hercules is a second year sociology major.
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.
