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In this episode, we find ourselves still working in isolation due to ongoing COVID restrictions and without access to classrooms, offices, or numerous essential tools. But with a new found hope that our lives are slowly returning to a new normal as the pandemic finally recedes.
Weâre still on Zoom a lot these days, too, and these interviews were conducted on that platform and therefore do have some sound variances.
For over a year now, students have persevered with remote learning and have discovered virtual ways to present their work.
Lacking crucial materials, being isolated, and facing uncertain futures have all been part of their experience.
The Irwin exhibition usually includes a highly anticipated and publicized group show in the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, complete with a lively opening night party for friends and family, plus a chance show oneâs work to the UC Santa Cruz campus community and to the public. The last physical show was in 2019, and last yearâs exhibition was the first, and was assumed to be the last, virtual presentation.
However, this yearâs exhibition will also have to be virtual but with the valuable experience gained from last year, and again, using cutting-edge 3D modeling tools.
Entitled, Fabricating Solace, the Irwin Scholarship exhibition, showcases the work of a select group of UC Santa Cruzâs outstanding young artists from the UC Santa Cruz Art Department.
Fabricating Solace opens online on June 3, 2021.For more information about the Irwin 2021: Fabricating Solace virtual exhibition and related events, and to find out more about the artists, please visit: art.ucsc.edu.
The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division is very grateful for the William Hyde Irwin and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship, now in its 35th year. It is the most prestigious award in the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz, and selection is based on the excellence of the nominees' creative work. Students each receive $2,500.
This podcast is a production of the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division. Written, edited, hosted, and produced by Maureen Dixon HarrisonTheme music by Eric Mack.
All other music by Kevin MacLeod.
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In this episode, host, Maureen Dixon Harrison, had the great honor of talking with theater arts professor and San Francisco Bay Area theater legend Danny Scheie as he was preparing for a live reading event of his signature piece, Shakespeareâs The Comedy of Errors, which will be a fundraiser for the newly established Danny Scheie Scholarship Fund.
The play will be presented over Zoom on April 23, 2021 and stars Scheie as the Dromio twins -- a part heâs made famous over the years -- along with an impressive cast of UCSC students and alumni.
After over 30years at UC Santa Cruz, Professor Scheie is retiring from teaching, but thankfully not from acting. Heâs enjoyed a spectacular career as a stage actor, winning numerous awards, including the Bay Area Critics Circle Award three times for Leading Actor; two times for Supporting Actor, and once for directing.
Scheie also has earned consistently rave reviews from major publications like the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several others for the wide array of principal roles heâs performed at top theaters all over the country.
As youâll discover in this insightful talk, he candidly discusses his loves, his loses, his addictions, and even his fears.
His sharp and hilarious observations make him the ideal guest, and itâs no wonder that heâs not only a very beloved professor, but also an exceptionally talented actor.
We hope youâll enjoy this lively conversation which, due to continuing COVID restrictions, was recorded on Zoom.
This podcast was produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz.
Theme music by Eric Mack.
"Midnight Tale" by Kevin MacLeod.For more information about the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division and upcoming events, please go to: https://arts.ucsc.edu
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In this episode, the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division is thrilled to kick off our new Arts Lecture Series by celebrating the upcoming 30th anniversary of UCSCâs African American Theater Arts Troupe.
Founded in 1991, by UC Santa Cruz drama lecturer, producer, director, and mentor Don Williams, the African American Theater Arts Troupe, or âAATATâ as itâs often called, has had a profound and lasting effect on countless numbers of African American students throughout the years.
As youâll find out in this lively and candid talk with Don and two of his alumni, Niketa Calame-Harris and Dr. Eric Jackson-Scott, Donâs tireless work and dedication have inspired so many.
His students have a deep appreciation, and love, for his willingness to address head on, not only what it means to be Black on our campus, but also the importance of exposing African American students, and all students, to the Black experience through presenting plays written by Black playwrights.
After starting the African American Theater Arts Troupe, Don also founded, in 1993, the Rainbow Theater in order to give students from various diverse backgrounds the opportunity to experience and create multicultural productions.
We hope youâll enjoy this thought-provoking and dynamic conversation which was originally presented live, via Zoom, on December 1, 2020 and hosted by KZSC radioâs Luisa Cardoza.
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Professor Jimin Lee's work explores themes of mobility, displacement and labor on the personal and social level as seen in traffic, places of transport, or objects that move or are "in transit" -- travel in both the daily and in the migratory sense.
She talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her ongoing work in print media that adopts emerging print strategies in an expanded art context.
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Professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's work is regularly seen around the world through broadcast, film festivals, and theatrical screenings at venues like the Sundance, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, New York Museum of Modern Art, PBS, Sundance Channel, Al Jazeera, and NHK-Japan.
She talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about the fast-paced and unpredictable turns her filmmaking has taken her, from FBI raids to witnessing the effects of incarceration on disenfranchised populations.
Professor Taylorâs new veritĂ© feature For the Love of Rutland explores three years in the life of a small blue-collar town grappling with deep change in an era of refugee crises, the opioid epidemic, and extreme ideological and cultural polarization. Supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Sundance Film Music Program, For the Love of Rutland was recently named one of the â10 Most Exciting Filmsâ at Hot Docs 2020 by Indiewire. -
Professor micha cĂĄrdenas sees education as a path to liberation, and her teaching focuses on discussion, interactivity and creative practice as research. cĂĄrdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology.
As the director of the Critical Realities Studio, she talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about this hybrid studio/lab that uses multiple realities, in art, to address critical global issues including climate change, racism and gendered violence.
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Professor Michael Chemers, founding Director of the Bachelor in Fine Arts Dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University and Associate Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his "Ghost Light" model of dramaturgy, a muscular, creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach to dramaturgy that requires thorough historical understanding, theoretical training broad and deep, and a passionate dedication to creating powerful, relevant performances of all types.
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Nominated for an Academy Award for her animated documentary film Last Day of Freedom (co-directed with Nomi Talisman), Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her work that incorporates animation, installation, public art, and documentary film examining power and politics.
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The nine documentaries in this year's SocDoc program are the culmination of an intense two years of immersion by the students into the art of documentary media and craft, scholarly research and analysis, nonfiction storytelling, and the politics of representation. These new media makers are trained to go "Beyond The Story", documenting communities, cultures, issues, and individuals who are marginalized in the current landscapes of representation, and the films shown here are the finished results of these studies.
This year, the screening will be available online through August 31, 2020. To see the films, go to: https://film.ucsc.edu/socdoc
This year's filmmakers and their films are:
Kyle Baker: The Eighth Province
Andrés Javier Camacho: Open Line
Carlos Campos: Campos de Sueños-Fields of Dreams
Melanie Dang Ho: sá»ng á» ÄĂąy | to live here
Jeanne Rachel Lieberman: Desiertos Verdes
Mahshid Modares: Sanctions on the Sky
Brian Myers: Far From Kawthoolei
Deepika Shrestha Ross: Momo America
Boris Yaikin C.: The Songwriter's Mission
Founded in 2005, SocDoc has a contemporary view of documentary that sets it apart from traditional approaches. Students considering enrollment should have a clear idea of a project, a commitment to social justice and human rights, and a desire to study their subject areas in depth.
UCSC's SocDoc program prepares graduates for careers in independent media, documentary, human rights work, and creative contributions to a range of fields.
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Rachel Nelson, PhD, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her artistic journey that has led her to become the interim director of UC Santa Cruzâs Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS). Nelson also teaches in the UCSCâs History of Art and Visual Culture department (HAVC). Currently, Nelson is co-curating a multi-sited group exhibition, Barring Freedom, engaging art, prisons, and justice, which will be shown bi-coastally in New York City, San JosĂ©, and Santa Cruz.
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Visit: https://arts.ucsc.edu
Produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz.
The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery presented IRWIN 2020: Collective Solitude, the 34th annual Irwin Scholarship Award exhibition, which showcases the work of a select group of UC Santa Cruzâs most promising young artists. The virtual exhibition took place during June 2020.Collective Solitude features thirteen artists whose works speak to this extraordinary period in history characterized by tremendous isolation and yet also incredible communal action. Their art addresses the many effects that distance has on individual, group, community, and worldwide levels. With confidence that such great constraints generate new and creative ideas,Collective Solitude aims to explore our present, estranged world where everyone is experiencing some form of loss and separation while working diligently and finding unique means to come together and support one another.
Showcasing a variety of approaches to contemporary art practice, the exhibition included drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, artistsâ books, and video installation. Due to county and statewide health ordinances regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, these works were shown virtually through a 3D model of the Sesnon Gallery and accessible online, 24/7.
The 2020 Irwin Scholars are Aaron Martinez, Anastasia Oleson, Angel Gonzales, Chloe Murr, Dominic Ramirez, Edgar Cruz, Emma McWaid, Jocelyn Lee, Joshua Zupan, Morgan Tomfohr, Natalie Del Castillo, Rodrigo Ramos, and Veriche Blackwell.
About the Irwin Scholarship and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
As a way of ensuring that others would have the kind of art education that allowed her to flourish in the art community, the late Sue Irwin established the William Hyde And Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund in 1986 in honor of her husband. The Irwin Scholarship and group show is granted annually to undergraduate UCSC students for proven excellence in the arts. -
Internationally renowned filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien , Distinguished Professor, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his multi-screen film installations and photographs and how he incorporates different artistic disciplines to create poetic and unique visual language.
His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled "Looking for Langston" garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature "Young Soul Rebels" won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Julien was awarded the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queenâs birthday honours, 2017.
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During March of 2020 students at UC Santa Cruz had to suddenly leave campus due to state county regulations regarding the spread of COVID-19.
Produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz. -
Game designer, conceptual artist, and protester Professor A.M. Darke shares stories of her work around race, identity, gender (including Kanye West), and even a bit of joy for dungeons and dragons. Guest host Lyle Troxell also chats with her about the recent UCSC graduate strike and her support of the students.
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As part of the 2020 Arts Dean's Lecture Series, special guest host Lyle Troxell interviewed nine UC Santa Cruz Arts Division faculty artists:
Ted Warburton, Interim Dean of the Arts and Professor of Dance
A.M. Darke, Assistant Professor, Art & Design: Games & Playable Media BA Program
conceptual artist and game designer
Isaac Julien, Distinguished Professor, filmmaker and installation artist
Rachel Nelson, PhD, is interim director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), and teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department.
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Professor of Art, Academy Award nominated, EmmyÂź award winning filmmaker
Michael Chemers, Professor of Dramatic Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, dramaturg
micha cĂĄrdenas, Assistant Professor, Art & Design: Games & Playable Media BA Program
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Associate Professor, Social Documentation, producer, director, documentary filmmaker
Jimin Lee, Professor of Art, head of the print media program and the director of the Contemporary Print Media research Center, print media artist -
The Art of Change podcast features a closer look at the news and events happening at the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division, as well as in-depth interviews with various faculty members about their art practices.
