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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

In Sameer Pandya’s ‘Our Beautiful Boys,’ teenage secrets are the dark heart of suburbia

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box and cylinder
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Matt Perko
Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese cylinders, a collection of 16 recordings from the late 1800s
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bald man in green car on fire with arrows chasing
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Wayne McCall
Keith Puccinelli, "Hot Rod Ambush," 2014. Blacklight ink and pen on paper, diptych. Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Pooch’s World
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glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014
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a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

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Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.
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house nestled in rocks in night landscape
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James Haefner
Southwest view of the Doolittle house, Joshua Tree, November 2022
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cool artists standing in front of a glass gallery in work clothes
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Debra Herrick
From left, art professor Kim Yasuda and her students Evelia Rosas, Lara Love, Miriam MacMillan and Savannah Arroyo
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classroom with student of color and a Black professor
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Matt Perko
“Everyone writes from the lens of their experience or where they allow their imagination,” says film & media studies lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson, pictured at far right.
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Black man playing wind instrument
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Wynton Marsalis