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An illustration of a bright red hand holding a 1950s era microphone
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Courtesy Carol Stabile
This illustration appeared on the cover of 'Red Channels,' a 1950s-era newsletter by an anti-Communist group that contained names of supposed subversives in the entertainment industry.

The long-term effects of the Hollywood blacklist

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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

Art show ‘A Box of One’s Own’ refashions Woolf’s ‘room’ in small symbols of women’s empowerment
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.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
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

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Courtesy photo
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season

Keep on ‘Trockin’’ in the free world
Portrait of professor Isabel Bayrakdarian at an awards ceremony
Professor and opera singer Isabel Bayrakdarian, November 2023

Operatic soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian: a lifetime of achievement
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The beauty of thinking differently, reflected in art
blue infinity pool rectangular shape overlooking the hills
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Tycho Saariste
Helena Arahuete, Interior of the Roscoe house ("House above the Morning Clouds"), 2009

Modernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current 
Napa Ever After publicity photo of a Black woman and man embracing

Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier — lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson wrote the screenplay 
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí
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Paul Meyers
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023

Compendium on Chicano poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera strikes gold
Painting of a friend by Lyra Purugganan

Take a friend to an artist’s studio
Two pianists play facing each other on a darkened stage
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Courtesy photo
Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay have been playing together for about a decade.

Two pianists speaking the language of our time
Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.

Noel Coward’s comedy of bad manners
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