Interaction Instead of Transaction
Mayor Cynthia Chase called for President Trump’s impeachment in front of a crowd of over 100 at Santa Cruz Indivisible’s (SCI) first ResistFest. Santa Cruz was the 11th city in the nation to submit an impeachment resolution, written by SCI and passed unanimously by city...
Visibility for Student Artists
Unlike students in other majors, who are writing final papers or studying for exams, art students at UC Santa Cruz are binding photo books and installing paintings for a department-wide gallery known as Open Studios. The Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center will be transformed into...
The Future of Art on Display
Art student Camille Mariet, like many art students, felt disconnected from her work in her fourth year of college. She felt like she wasn’t moving forward and didn’t feel like her work was validating — but one professor saw otherwise. Mariet was nominated to apply...
Art as Healing
Seven out of 10 inmates return after they are released from Santa Cruz County Jail. The rate of recidivism, a term for when released individuals reoffend and are reincarcerated, is often related to idleness in county jails and the difficulty of inmates reintegrating into society....
Unspoken Narratives: Bringing Race Into Discussion
Peripeteia. A sudden change in circumstances. The turn in your stomach when watching footage of police brutality toward Black people — Alton Sterling, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin — brought new meaning to this word. Minority Report opened with footage from the 1991 Rodney King beating...
Dear World, Love UCSC
“I can wear short sleeves.” “Eight years later, it never went away.” “I got it wrong. So what?” These are a few phrases written across the bodies of members of the UC Santa Cruz community. Photographers took more than 150 portraits of participants with words...
The Art and Science of Juggling
A juggler unicycled and tossed clubs to a partner, while a circle of people balanced balls on their heads. An artist rolled a staff over the top of his hand as he built momentum to allow the staff to travel down his arms and shoulders....