UCLA Arts Newsletter

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In the News  

UCLA Department of Art and Hammer Museum recognized in new Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Arts Education Initiatives		Fowler and Hammer Museum Exhibitions Named Best of 2018 by New York Times

Can Artists Organize? The Story of WAGE		The Mandarin Duck and Avian Art at the Cooper Hewitt

Last minute holiday shopping? Consider supporting the UCLA Arts community of artists, scholars, makers, and entrepreneurs.

 

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will present more than 150 public events this winter. Featured in exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and performances are artists, designers, architects, dancers, writers, musicians, policymakers, and cultural critics whose diverse work and perspectives will enliven the campus—and Los Angeles—and will offer insight and context for our current cultural climate. Many of the events are free, thanks to the support of donors, and all are open to the public.

 

Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts, who passed away on September 11, was one of the world’s foremost scholars of African Arts, and a beloved professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
 
Her influence was deeply felt in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Roberts served as a mentor to a great many students interested in arts theories and practices, inspiring them to question their own identities even as they explored arts of diverse cultures throughout the world. Through her museum work Roberts also reached out to many communities, and in 2017, she was awarded the Dai Sensei/Master Teacher Award of the Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles. As the award statement read, through Roberts’ “remarkable teaching and speaking skills… the more we learn the more excited we become; the more we seek the more you give.”
 
The Polly Nooter Roberts Graduate Fellowship will honor Roberts’ enduring legacy at UCLA by supporting doctoral students studying culture, museums, and/or African Arts in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.