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![Ecologies of Childhood conference logo](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/ChildhoodEcologiesLogoByMayaGonzalez-ucsb.jpg?itok=U60HJfmh)
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Illustration by Maya Gonzalez
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![Artist collage by Angela YT Chan](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/chan-1-scaled.jpg?itok=8pzvHs4N)
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Angela YT Chan
Angela YT Chan's collage series is featured in the "Holding Sway" collection of photo essays
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![Installation view of ceramic and weaving exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/sarah-rosalena-installation-mcasb-ucsb-opt.jpg?itok=2CThXSSh)
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, "Pointing Star," Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
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![Professor William Davies King with a collection of cracker boxes](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/William-Davies-King-Cheez-It-UC-Santa-Barbara.jpg?itok=ZYX4vi91)
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Matt Perko
William Davies King with part of his collection of Cheez-It cracker boxes
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![Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/Cate-Blanchett-Ruperto-Fasabi-Tar-Todd-Field.jpg?itok=TdRUiuWC)
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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.
Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.
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![Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/last-days-judas-jeff-liang-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=vse7bYyx)
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.
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![Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/opera-brecher-mungo-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=U8GHhRlL)
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Courtesy photo
Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.
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![A woman seen from behind standing a window that opens to a brick wall](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/Shelly-Hope-Anonymous-2022-Iran-ucsb-opt.jpg?itok=s4ZI1CAA)
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Courtesy photo
The piece "Hope," by an anonymous artist, is part of the exhibition "Woman. Life. Freedom."
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Rosa Parks
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![Portrait of Joao Pedro Oliveira](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-04/joao-oliveira-ucsb-11-opt-cropped-ucsb_0.jpg?itok=qhYKqT3V)
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Debra Herrick
"It is definitely a very special highlight in my composition career," said João Pedro Oliveira on receiving an award from the Guggenheim Foundation.
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![Ceramic reproduction of a meat market store front.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-04/christopher-suarez-la-gaviota-detail-ucsb.jpg?itok=ycPj6qjC)
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Ruben Diaz
Christopher Suarez, La Gaviota Meat Market, detail, 2022, ceramic