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a painting of festively dressed men and women at Fiesta
A student work at the "Finding Fiesta" museum exhibit at Casa de la Guerra

Young students tap UCSB archive to reflect on century-old Fiesta celebration

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modern dancers with arms and legs intertwined
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Fritz Olenberger
UCSB's Santa Barbara Dance Theater
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Alexis Okeowo
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Courtesy UCSB Arts & Lectures
Alexis Okeowo
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close up of woman at beach
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025
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exhibition
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen
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water color painting of small boats arriving to shore
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Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."
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framed art on gallery wall
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025.
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group of people in whimsical costumes on beach at sunset
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Naked Shakes
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open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.
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Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera
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book cover art of oscar wilde and his wife
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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.
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man with grey and black shoulder length hair and tattoos on his arms
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Jeff Liang
Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.