Three artists reveal new work at LASER Talks
Silent desert images interspersed with eerie chimes. White patches that look like snow, but are actually salt. California’s Indigenous tribes come to life on-screen. This was what audiences were presented with at UC Santa Cruz’s Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talks. LASER Talks…
Recovered From the Fires: A Story of Objects
Fires, burning logs, and lone firefighters with a single hose among ash and rubble. These are the scenes depicted at “Out of the Ashes,” a new exhibition on the CZU Lighting Complex Fires at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH). Shmuel Thaler,…
Student Artists Bring Contemporary Art to Sesnon Underground’s “Homecoming”
Second-year Carter Samuels was amazed by the sight of his art displayed at the Sesnon Underground Gallery. Returning to in-person classes this quarter after spending a year online, he understood the theme of “Homecoming.” “I saw [the theme] being about growth and coming back to…
Art Spaces on Campus
ART SPACES ON CAMPUS Sculpture Studios: The sculpture studios consist of a metal shop and a woodshop. Located in the Baskin Art Studios, both places offer various tools for students to develop skills such as welding, shaping, staining, and more. To gain access to the studios,…
Rainbow Theatre Brings Underrepresented Perspectives to Light in Spring Productions
At first it seemed impracticable: to direct, memorize lines, and perform digitally would take away the essence of theater. Despite the obstacles, UC Santa Cruz’s Rainbow Theatre successfully created a new stage for four underrepresented stories over the course of two weekends. Rainbow Theatre presented…
The Queer Fashion Show Archives: Keeping History Alive
More than two decades of memories from the Queer Fashion Show (QFS) have been kept in a storage room. In celebration of Pride, current QFS directors and their advisor are sharing a rich collection of prideful stories from the LGBTQIA+ community at UC Santa Cruz….
Porter’s Latest Mural, Almost Two Years in the Making
In blue, green, and hints of yellow, Isabella Tuell, a second-year undergraduate Porter affiliate, paints the latest addition to the Porter College murals. Featuring a mother whale with its baby, her mural depicts what most college freshmen go through — growing up and moving out…
Asian Man Records: Abandoning Industry Norms
In Mike Park’s mom’s garage, a plethora of vinyls from different artists lean against one another, with minimal space between them to walk along. Empty boxes, once full of more records and other merchandise, lay scattered across the concrete ground and an off-white folding table. …
Beyond the Grave: Spoken Word Performances
With a gravesite for a stage, three local creatives share their poetry in front of a live audience for the first time in over a year. Audience members’ soft snaps and hums float beneath the towering trees of Evergreen Cemetery in response to the poems….
Sluttony: Kicking Down Rock’s Door
Hannah Goodwin is a second year and double major in Theater Arts and History of Art and Visual Culture. In the group she plays the guitar. Fun fact: Hannah is listening well to a specific note on the piano used to be associated with elephants…