The Sesnon Gallery: Keeping Art and the Community Alive
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the question, “What do we do amidst social unrest?” With so many ways to contribute to change, UC Santa Cruz promotes its Social Documentation Master of Fine Arts program (SocDoc) as a space that allows students to recount and…
The Creativity of a County: A Look Into Santa Cruz’s Open Studios
In the entryway of Floasis Pottery Studio, visitor Kirsten Snobeck’s eyes grew wide as she held up a mug ornamented with mushrooms. Floasis Studio was Snobeck’s sixth or seventh stop of the day in her self-guided tour of Santa Cruz Open Studios on Sunday, Oct….
The Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center and Chester Gregory Kick Start the New Year with Motown Classics
The drums kick us off. Enter the piano, along with a funky bass line. Bringing in the guitar lick, the soulful vocals uplift the song to where it needed to go. Welcome to Hitsville, USA. UC Santa Cruz’s Mainstage Theater will transform into a time…
Three artists reveal new work at LASER Talks
Silent desert images interspersed with eerie chimes. White patches that look like snow, but are actually salt. California’s Indigenous tribes come to life on-screen. This was what audiences were presented with at UC Santa Cruz’s Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talks. LASER Talks…
Recovered From the Fires: A Story of Objects
Fires, burning logs, and lone firefighters with a single hose among ash and rubble. These are the scenes depicted at “Out of the Ashes,” a new exhibition on the CZU Lighting Complex Fires at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH). Shmuel Thaler,…
Student Artists Bring Contemporary Art to Sesnon Underground’s “Homecoming”
Second-year Carter Samuels was amazed by the sight of his art displayed at the Sesnon Underground Gallery. Returning to in-person classes this quarter after spending a year online, he understood the theme of “Homecoming.” “I saw [the theme] being about growth and coming back to…
Art Spaces on Campus
ART SPACES ON CAMPUS Sculpture Studios: The sculpture studios consist of a metal shop and a woodshop. Located in the Baskin Art Studios, both places offer various tools for students to develop skills such as welding, shaping, staining, and more. To gain access to the studios,…
Rainbow Theatre Brings Underrepresented Perspectives to Light in Spring Productions
At first it seemed impracticable: to direct, memorize lines, and perform digitally would take away the essence of theater. Despite the obstacles, UC Santa Cruz’s Rainbow Theatre successfully created a new stage for four underrepresented stories over the course of two weekends. Rainbow Theatre presented…
The Queer Fashion Show Archives: Keeping History Alive
More than two decades of memories from the Queer Fashion Show (QFS) have been kept in a storage room. In celebration of Pride, current QFS directors and their advisor are sharing a rich collection of prideful stories from the LGBTQIA+ community at UC Santa Cruz….
Porter’s Latest Mural, Almost Two Years in the Making
In blue, green, and hints of yellow, Isabella Tuell, a second-year undergraduate Porter affiliate, paints the latest addition to the Porter College murals. Featuring a mother whale with its baby, her mural depicts what most college freshmen go through — growing up and moving out…