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The newly opened exhibit Creative Currents: Student Expression in the Arts at UC Santa Barbara’s Sara Miller McCune Arts Library showcases decades of student creativity, spanning from 1960 to 2017. Curated by graduate student Carlyle Constantino, the exhibit highlights emotionally resonant works while exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the evolving role of curation in amplifying historically overlooked voices.
Valeria Perez, host of Grrrls Who Rock!!! at UCSB’s radio station KCSB, sits down to discuss women and gender-expansive people in rock, finding your path in college, and radio show hosting.
UC Santa Barbara's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosted Swati Chattopadhyay, a History of Art and Architecture professor at UCSB, to discuss her book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire. She spoke on servant quarters and other small spaces throughout the British Empire in India and how these marginalized spaces held together the Empire's infrastructure.
Ph.D. student Letícia Cobra Lima created the recent exhibit at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, “A Box of One’s Own: Women Beyond Borders.” Through intricately decorated boxes, women express what womanhood means to them. Lima’s recent workshop 'Bring Your Own Box' invited the UCSB community to actively participate. Inspired by Virginia Woolf, this exhibit explores the use of artistic freedom and empowerment through the creation of these small, meaningful boxes.
This fall, UCSB’s Art Design and Architecture Museum is displaying work by Helena Arahuete, an artist and architect who aims to create work that collaborates with its surrounding environment and align with nature. The museum is free, and open to students and community members at UC Santa Barbara.
Writing Program lecturer Christian Thomas recently developed UCSB’s first interactive, choose-your-own-adventure game for an undergraduate writing course. The game responds to the player’s choices, and exposes students to Rome’s rich history of art and archaeology,
UC Santa Barbara’s annual Creativity Contest this spring honored three Poetry winners at a Give Day Ceremony in early April. The winners, alongside their work, are featured here.
Patrick Hunt, a Stanford University medieval studies scholar came to UC Santa Barbara last week to give a lecture on Hannibal, a military commander from the Second Punic War, and how his tactics are still used today in modern military intelligence. The lecture, “Hannibal’s Secret Weapon,” was co-sponsored by UCSB’s Department of Classics, Department of History and History of Art & Architecture.
Located near UC Santa Barbara’s signature monument Storke Tower, the university’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum has reopened its doors to the public after 19 months of pandemic, welcoming Gabriel Ritter as its new director.
Director of the Getty Research Institute, Mary Miller virtually visited UCSB to speak about new insights she has gained by studying 8th-century Maya figurines. In her talk, she shared images of exquisite sculptures that revealed a complex and little-known side of Maya civilization that likely included slavery.
History of Art and Architecture professor Swati Chattopadhyay was joined by Arijit Sen, a professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, to discuss her book, Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field, as part of an HAA lecture series. In her book, Chattopadhyay explores the power structures of the everyday life of Indian Streets.
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.
Jeffrey Boloten, who heads Art and Business Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, visited UCSB’s program in History of Art and Architecture to lecture on the booming contemporary art market and the boundaries that loosely define that art industry category.
In his presentation last week entitled Being African, Being Contemporary, UC Santa Barbara History of Art and Architecture professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie used both historic and contemporary images to map the journey of African art and its representations, showing its influence on the art of our world today.
Indiana University, Bloomington professor and UC Santa Barbara alumnus Bret Rothstein delivered a recent presentation titled “The Cheat, the Spoilsport, and the Virtuoso” to UCSB history of art & architecture students and faculty, describing the role of games in 16th century European artwork.
History of Art and Architecture professor Claudia Moser and Writing Program lecturer Christian Thomas have received a $94,000 grant from UC Santa Barbara’s Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) to develop an interactive, game-based course called Rome: The Game. The lower division course, which will be available to students in winter 2021, is an introduction to the art, archaeology, and history of ancient Rome, with an emphasis on writing and research.
This series of videos, produced by UC Santa Barbara students, showcases the creative talent of students, faculty, and alumni from Humanities and Fine Arts.
To kick off the History of Art and Architecture's Digital Image Lab series, UC Santa Barbara Geography professor Keith Clarke led a Wednesday afternoon mapmaking workshop. "Anybody can sit down in front of a computer and make a map," he said. Though the process initially seemed complex, Clarke showed how digital programs have made it easier to create and access maps.
Art therapy is not intended to train artists, but to instead make them happy, says Suzanne Hudson, an art history scholar at University of Southern California.
Hudson discussed the advent of art therapy and the role of television’s Bob Ross at UC Santa Barbara’s History of Art and Architecture winter lecture series. She is currently completing the research for her next book, Better For the Making: Art Therapy Process.
