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Portrait of Leah Bleich
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Taylor Finlay
Director Leah Bleich brings her first feature to the campus where she got her start in filmmaking.

‘Back’ to the future: Alum Leah Bleich returns to campus with her first feature film

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Black man with trays of different insects
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Umberto Diecinove
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700 Palms, Venice, CA
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Ehrhard Pfeiffer
700 Palms, Venice, California, Ehrlich Architects
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth
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Courtesy photo
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
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photo of poet professor Michelle Petty-Grue
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Matt Perko
College of Creative Studies assistant teaching professor Michelle Petty-Grue, February 2024
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symphony on stage
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American Composers Alliance (screen grab)
The premiere of composer Earl Louis Stewart's "Homage to Swing" at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music's Schoenberg Auditorium, Feb. 5, 2017, as part of the "Swinging to a World of Strings" concert with Maestro Neal Stulberg conducting.
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red neon lights a window box in grey hallway with photo panels and mirrors
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Patrick Pyszka, city of Chicago
Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, "chân trời foot of the sky," 2023. Archival pigment prints, two-way mirrored glass, neon. 240 x 92 x 30 in.
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people on stage
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Fritz Olenberger
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photographer of the five film students who made the 841 documentary
The "841" film crew (from left): director of photography Logan Asperian, sound mixer Lauren Barley, producer Macielle Villaseñor, director Rachel Burnett and editor Vincent Cuenco off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in 2023.
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installation view in gallery with blue arc panel
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Arturo Heredia Soto
“A Box of One’s Own: Women Beyond Borders,” installation view, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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dancer in black and white striped dress
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.
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Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024