UCLA Arts Newsletter
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As you begin your holiday shopping, consider supporting the UCLA Arts community of artists, scholars, makers, and entrepreneurs.
The newly renovated and expanded UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Studios will open to the public for the first time for the semiannual Department of Art Graduate Open Studios. During this community celebration the public is invited to meet the M.F.A. students, see their work in progress, and experience the new environment that Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee created for the education of emerging artists.
On the occasion of UCLA’s Centennial, UCLA Arts is proud to present 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 by a member of our community 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 Jessa Calderon, a Tongva and Chumash mother, healer, and internationally-renowned artist, and Tria Blu Wakpa, assistant professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance with an affiliation in American Indian Studies.
Thanks to the generosity of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the UCLA Department of Art has a new fellowship for M.F.A. painting students. In October, six M.F.A. students led by faculty members Silke Otto-Knapp and Rebecca Morris had the opportunity to visit New York at the invitation of the Foundation to learn more about Frankenthaler and her work.
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
RSVP for the final two sessions of 10 Questions: Centennial Edition
This hybrid undergraduate course and public event series engages leading scholars, artists, scientists, activists, philosophers, executives and more for an energetic exchange of ideas. Every Tuesday evening from through Dec. 3, we invite you to join UCLA students in the classroom to explore an essential question. Join us in the classroom on Nov. 26 for What is Citizenship? and on Dec. 3 for What Matters? RSVP here.
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