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college age woman of Taiwanese descent sits in studio with branches and canvas
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Debra Herrick
Meiya Sidney '25, College of Creative Studies and art honors

Artist explores Taiwanese heritage and memory though ceramics

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Women in bright colored dresses on stage with a blue background
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Luca Meyers
A play about young women on the cusp of their teenage years, “Dance Nation” portrays their conflicting impulses to stand out and blend in.
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A student looks at images of bees in the library corridor.
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Harrison Tasoff
Natural history collections like the one housed at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration hold valuable data accumulated over 100 years.
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Painting of a comet traveling through night sky full of stars
Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024
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black and white photograph of Erico Caruso Jr. on the set of the musical film "El Cantante de Napoles"
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The Erico Caruso Jr. Collection
Erico Caruso Jr. (center) on the set of the 1935 musical "El Cantante de Napoles"
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Closeup of 'The Book of Delights' with a library and people in the background
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Courtesy UC Santa Barbara Library
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A large group of people gathered shoulder to shoulder on a theater stage
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Courtesy LAUNCH PAD
The Amplify Festival brings together veteran and emerging artists to workshop news plays and present public readings.
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woman on stage with cello and composer
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Courtesy
A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.
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A women sitting in a red vinyl booth inside a diner
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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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man of East Asian descent in stadium with dramatic light
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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blue lights in shape of trees and roots
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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historical map of US with text in Spanish and flowers
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Illustration by Matt Perko
Flower picking as a metaphor for rediscovery — professor emerita Víctor Fuentes’ "Florilegio" gathers centuries of overlooked Spanish-language literature from the U.S.