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Painting of a comet traveling through night sky full of stars
Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024

MFA exhibition explores time, space and transformation

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image of book and its author, William Davies King

Theater scholar’s culminating work unpacks masterpiece of the American stage
book cover and a drawing of people cooking in India

Recasting the architecture of empire
house nestled in rocks in night landscape
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James Haefner
Southwest view of the Doolittle house, Joshua Tree, November 2022

Architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg’s archive donated to Architecture and Design Collection
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

‘Today’s Today Is Today’ exhibition showcases multi-generational artistic connections at UCSB
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.

UC Santa Barbara and Tuskegee University launch pilot program to advance Black cultural perspectives in TV writing
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Annual summer film series from UCSB Arts & Lectures brings the beach
Black man playing wind instrument
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Wynton Marsalis

UCSB Arts & Lectures announces 65th anniversary season
white man with hat sitting in art studio
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Kelly Malone
Owen Jenkins '24

Cartoonist and illustrator presents senior art show, plans new comic book project
the organizers of the art show, mentors and faculty advisors
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Photos by Hannah Frogge and Andrew Dang
Clockwise from top left: Kristine Joy Chua, Amy Boddy, Hannah Frogge, Kim Yasuda, Anastasia Senavsky and Emilie Risha

‘Originalia’ art show celebrates the human reproductive system
Three costumed actors - two men and one women - on a darkened stage
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Jeff Liang
“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.

A dreamlike history play that resonates today
portrait in black and white of possibly Asian American woman with red dots in background
Chiho Harazaki, Shippo, detail, 2023

‘Positive Exposure: SoCal Asian American Art' exhibit features UCSB grad student and alumni artists
A promotional image from the film "The Citizen" depicts a man with dark hair on a payphone, with a NYC backdrop
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“The Citizen” provides a gripping commentary on the sociopolitical landscape of the U.S. and the everyday struggles of Arab-Americans after 9/11

‘The Citizen’ examines the immigrant experience in a post-9/11 world — with echoes that resonate today
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