UCLA Arts Newsletter
December 4, 2020
What does a 16-year-old theatre student know about power? What can a 7th grade dance student teach us about hope?
As we learned in this fall’s “10 Questions: Reckoning,” an awful lot.
As the world struggles to cope with a pandemic and the United States grapples with its embedded racism and inequality, this fall the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture presented “10 Questions: Reckoning,” the third iteration of its hybrid public program/academic class that brings together leading minds from across the university for interdisciplinary discussions about some of life’s essential questions.
With a desire to extend the reach and impact of this year’s program deeper into the community, the “10 Questions” team forged a partnership with the school’s Visual and Performing Arts Education program (VAPAE) to engage middle and high school students from public schools across the city.
Still have a few gifts left to pick up for your loved ones this holiday season? Check out our curated list of art, design and architecture-related objects created by artists, scholars, makers, and entrepreneurs from across the UCLA Arts community.
How does one create a more equitable learning environment? Anna Spain Bradley, UCLA’s new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, has been thinking a lot about this question. Despite the political polarization of our time, Spain Bradley – a scholar of international law, global racism and human rights – says it’s imperative that we sit down and have conversations with people we disagree with.
"If people communicate and we look at each other and see each other and value each other, it's not easy, but it's worthwhile, and it can lead to creating solutions that didn't exist before," she said.
Spain Bradley sat down with the host of UCLA Arts’ podcast “Works In Progress” for a broad ranging conversation that touched on the events in her own life that led her to the field of international dispute resolution, and how she’s applying those experiences at UCLA.
She’ll also be a panelist for the final session in this year’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” discussion series, on Monday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. PST, responding to the question “What Matters?”
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Have you listened to this season’s “Works in Progress?” We’ve spoken to interdisciplinary artist Ann Carlson; Hammer Museum associate curator Erin Christovale; artist, curator, and executive and artistic director of UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance Kristy Edmunds; distinguished professor and the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry Neil Garg; artist and Department of Art alumna Sharon Hayes; associate dean and professor of choreography Victoria Marks; UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television professor and director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA Chon Noriega; information studies scholar and professor Ramesh Srinivasan; and other special guests of the 10 Questions: Reckoning series.
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