UCLA Arts Newsletter
June 27, 2019
As the 2018–19 academic year draws to a close, we are just beginning our yearlong celebration of UCLA’s centennial. At our June 15 commencement ceremony, alongside our esteemed keynote speaker and Chancellor, Gene Block, we celebrated the achievements of the 371 students who earned their degrees as part of UCLA’s first centennial class.
Milestones like this provide the opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been and chart the course for what comes next. As we turn our attention to the summer months, I would like to thank you for all the incredible work, dedication, and commitment you have exhibited throughout the year and take a moment to reflect on everything that we've accomplished together.
What follows are some broad markers and simple figures alongside a few highlights from the year. Please think of these as an invitation and a starting point to appreciate the work you are proud to have been part of in this last year.
On the occasion of UCLA’s Centennial, UCLA Arts is proud to launch 100 for 100—a collection of stories that celebrate the rich history of the arts at UCLA over the past century. Each monthly newsletter throughout the yearlong celebration will feature a new story that reflects on our past and imagines what’s possible for our future. We invite our community to explore these stories and contribute their own to the collection.
This month's contribution is by Cynthia Burlingham, director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.
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On any given day, the work of our faculty enlivens museums, galleries, performance venues, lecture halls, public spaces, and more—both at home and abroad. Their creative and scholarly contributions mine the complexities of the human condition, asking essential questions of our time while expanding the potential of creativity and the depth, diversity, and real-world impact of the arts.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Kyle Abraham’s company Abraham.In.Motion is performing in Germany, Spain, North Carolina, and Massachusetts this summer.
Architecture and Urban Design Professor Neil Denari designed Silver Lake 1, a new mixed-use space on Sunset Boulevard. Construction will be completed in September.
Art Professor and Chair Andrea Fraser’s work Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 (2012) is on view at the Hammer Museum in the exhibition Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor and Chair Dan Froot will launch his new podcast, Pang!, on July 1. It’s an audio-drama adaptation of the staged work of the same name, based on the oral histories of families around the country who are living below the poverty line and hungering for change.
Celebrate UCLA's centennial by sharing your own story that reflects on the institution’s 100-year legacy by looking back at the past or forward into the future.
We invite you to share reflections on your time at UCLA, lessons learned at UCLA and how they have shaped your life and work, moments from UCLA’s history that have inspired or influenced you, and/or hopes for UCLA’s future.
Submissions could take any number of forms from brief comments, to short essays, to photographs, to drawings, to videos, to performances, etc., but should be formatted or documented with the end goal of digital distribution. Submissions can respond to a single moment, work, individual, project, exhibition, performance, or space relating to the arts and architecture at UCLA; a through-line that can be followed over time at the institution; or anything in between. Critique is welcomed – one could explore gaps or missteps throughout our institution’s history and share related hopes for our future.
Announcements
Register for 10 Questions: Centennial Edition
Attention students! In Fall 2019, the School of the Arts and Architecture will offer Arts&Arc100: 10 Questions. This Centennial Edition of the 10 Questions course will continue to explore essential questions, such as: What is Knowledge? What is Justice? What is Creativity? and What is Nature?; bringing together leading faculty and distinguished alumni voices from across the university. 10 Questions provides a platform for vibrant conversations that engage multiple disciplinary viewpoints, seeding greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge, while offering a robust framework in which to envision and activate the role that the university can play as it embarks on its next 100 years. Arts&Arc 100 is an upper division elective course open to all undergraduate School of the Arts & Architecture students as well as sophomores and above from across the university. Register now.
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