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Dean Celine and Pixar Animation Studio’s Jonas Rivera, Senior Vice President, Film Production, in conversation on The Celine Archive, October 14, 2021.
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From the Dean of the Arts
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
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November 2021
As Dean of the Arts at UCSC, I am making an institutional mandate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work to be embraced by every department and program. DEI plans must account for the problems within our culture and the data of graduation and retention rates for underrepresented groups so as to improve them.
Each unit in our division is a microcosm of hundreds of years of racial inequality in this country. I hope each of us can approach the challenges facing our university with multidimensional curiosity and a recognition of our responsibility to ensure belonging for all. My office, along with the university offices of DEI, will support the implementation of these efforts so all can succeed.
This newsletter brings so much good tidings as we aspire to achieve what Dr. Martin Luther King calls the beloved community—which John R. Lewis describes as a “society based on simple justice that values the dignity and the worth of every human being. The struggle to build this kind of community does not last for one day, one week, or one year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Each of us must continue to do our part to help make this vision a reality.”
Thank you for joining me in these efforts,
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artsdean@ucsc.edu
Photo: Carolyn Lagattuta
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Featured Student:
Janet Chen
Film and Digital Media, SocDoc
Janet Chen's short documentary, Phoenix Bakery: Sweets for the Sweet, will be screening at various film festivals during November. This heartwarming film takes a poignant look at one of Los Angeles’s Chinatown’s iconic businesses as it celebrates its 80th year and ponders its future existence.
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Featured Student:
Aja Bond
Art
Loss and grief have turned out to be uncanny inspirations for artist and student Aja Bond, who is currently in her junior year, working towards earning a B.A. in art at UC Santa Cruz.
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Featured Alumna:
Elisse La Barre
Musicology, Ph.D. 2019
Elisse La Barre will present a virtual lecture titled Radio Enchains Music: The 1940 ASCAP Radio War and Music Festivals at the Library of Congress. The recording will be available on November 17.
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Featured Faculty:
Shelley Stamp
Professor of Film and Digital Media
Professor Shelley Stamp is interviewed in several episodes of the new podcast
Women vs. Hollywood hosted by journalist Helen O’Hara. Following revelations of the #metoo and #timesup movement in Hollywood, the podcast aims to trace histories of women’s work and activism in the entertainment business. Professor Stamp talks about the central role women played in the early years of movie-making and the key female filmmakers at work in movie studios of the 1940s and 50s.
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Kristen Gillette
Assistant Teaching Professor
Performance, Play & Design
Kristen Gillette Intertwines Teaching and Design
Kristen Gillette’s first encounter with UC Santa Cruz happened when she made the trek up from UCLA to UCSC for a one-quarter UC Intercampus Exchange Program. The school and its beautiful surroundings turned out to have an impact that would charter the course of her future career.
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Pamela Rodriguez-Montero
Acting Assistant Professor of Costume Design
The Rainforest Became Pamela Rodriguez-Montero’s Most Influential Teacher
Citing nature as her inspiration, Acting Assistant Professor of Costume Design, Department of Performance, Play & Design, Pamela Rodriguez-Montero, grew up near the lushness of the rainforest in Barva de Heredia, a small town in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.
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Matt Schumaker
Assistant Professor of Music
Matt Schumaker’s Computing Makes All the Right Music
Connecting the recording of a Formula One racing car together with a Cathy Park Hong poem about a drive in California might not seem to most people like musical components, but for composer and Assistant Professor in Music, Matt Schumaker, these are the epitome of musical sounds.
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Arts Raises Bank on Giving Day
Many thanks to Arts donors who helped us raise over $66,000 on Giving Day! Even if you missed Giving Day, you can still help Arts students by making a gift today. Learn more about how the sixth annual Giving Day is supporting students from the Arts, and across the campus.
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How One Tiny Island Influenced the World
Egill Bjarnason (M.A. 2015), journalist and Soc Doc alumnus, explains the big history of his native Iceland in a "joyously peculiar book." He wrote about how the small nation has made an impact on world history.
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November 16 (online)
Traction: Art Talk with Cassils and
rafa esparza
Internationally renowned performance and visual artists discuss their individual art practices and their large-scale socially engaged collaboration: In Plain Sight, 2020.
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Final weekend: November 18-21 (in-person)
Live theater: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Graduate student Sequoia Schirmer directs Tom Stoppard's absurdist play. A student-acted and student-designed production. Tickets are available online only.
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November 19 (in-person)
UCSC Wind Ensemble
The UCSC Wind Ensemble presents their fall concert.
(Concert takes place in the Maintage Theater.)
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November 20 (in-person)
UCSC Chamber Singers
A cappella selections and a set of jazz and pop tunes presented in collaboration with UCSC Jazz Ensembles. Directed by Michael McGushin.
(Concert takes place in the Mainstage Theater.)
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December 3 (in-person)
Art Department Open Studios
Open Studios features student art work in a variety of media, including: drawing, painting, print media, sculpture, intermedia, photography, environmental art, and electronic art.
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December 4 (in-person)
Coltrane’s Africa/Brass at 60
UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane’s iconic Africa/Brass with jazz virtuoso Charles Tolliver joining the UC Santa Cruz Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Choir in a reimagining of the work.
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January 19 – March 19 (gallery exhibition)
Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms
A video exhibition of work by Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms. Curated by Professor
T.J. Demos of the History of Art and Visual Culture Department.
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Attention Documentary Filmmakers
The deadline for the ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship has been extended to 11:59 p.m. PST on December 1, 2021. This fellowship offers a one-time, 12-month unrestricted fellowship with early development of high-potential projects that increase the diversity, urgency, and relevance of the nation’s humanities-centered documentary pipeline.
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Arts Dean’s Office Re-Launches Internships Program and Matching Funds
The Arts at UC Santa Cruz is committed to student success, including professional pathway opportunities for all of our students. Our program is designed to ensure equity, access and opportunity. Click link below for details regarding the Arts Internships Program, including our internships scholarship fund application!
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Apply to Duke University's Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University invites applications from graduate students (MA, MFA, and/or Ph.D track) for a 5-day Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute. Applications are due December 20.
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