UCLA Arts Newsletter

In the News  

UCLA Professor Bryonn Bain on Arts Activism and Justice Reform		Kevin Daly Architects builds crinkled complex for UCLA's basketball teams

Tracing the legendary career of Peter Sellars through his visually rich opera productions		Hammer Museum’s $180 million expansion to improve accessibility, add exhibits

‘Meet the Composer’ podcaster Nadia Sirota’s triumphant return as the maven of classical music makers		Creative Capital Awards $5 Million to Fifty Artist Projects

Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, possible Black Dahlia murder site, becomes a performance stage

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This Saturday, artists, educators, designers, and coders of all ages and backgrounds will come together at the UCLA Broad Art Center—and at satellite events across the globe—for Processing Community Day. Processing, a free and open-source software platform for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, was created by UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas and Ben Fry. It is complemented by a web version, called p5.js, created by UCLA Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy, who also earned her M.F.A. from the department. Lauren and Casey, who organized the event with Processing Community Day Director Xin Xin, hope that “people [will] leave with some new perspectives and ideas, questions they hadn’t considered before, and new tools to address the problems they’re trying to solve.”