UCLA Arts Newsletter
September 25, 2017
How do we begin?
I'm beginning. You're beginning.
All of us, in one way or another, are trying to engage or reengage both with our institution and our respective forms.
I’m honored to join you as the new dean of UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. I am excited about a new beginning.
Beginnings are a time of great potential and a time of great possibility but they can also be daunting, especially in times of crisis. And, regardless of where you are from, what you do or what you believe in, the world around us is reverberating with uncertainty, challenge, and crisis. We are struck by the images that fill our screens. We are moved by the the heroism of strangers and the power of nature. Among these crises, natural and otherwise, it can be difficult to gain our bearings, to find our direction.
What do we hold onto in these moments of profound challenge or crisis?
We hold on to and embrace our forms. We hold onto and support our communities. We reaffirm and clarify what is important to us and why we do what we do.
You See LA 
Five things NOT to see and do in and around Los Angeles this fall.
HANDPICKED BY BRETT STEELE, DEAN
I've been invited to suggest five current LA favorites, as part of this great series, but since I've only been here now for a few days, the city's lessons so far seem to be what NOT to do. So going against the grain, and with apologies for having not exactly followed the format of offering up must-dos within this amazing, horizontal city, given what I've learned in my first few days of LA life here are my tips for what I now know one SHOULDN'T ever do:
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Do a double take and look at people you recognize but have never met |
Pick a place to live before owning an automobile |
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| Drive to the beach after 9 a.m. |
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| Drive on a freeway with the numbers 405 |
Announcements
Join us for The Opening: 2017-18
This School of the Arts and Architecture celebration kicks off the academic year with music, games, art, performance, food, fun, and community. Open to all students, faculty, and staff of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. More info...
Just a few spaces left in Cayetano Ferrer's school-wide studio-based course
Building on the success of last year’s school-wide Arts & Architecture studio-based course series “Follow the Through-lines”—designed for students from across the school to create, think, and percolate ideas together—we are pleased to welcome Los Angeles-based artist Cayetano Ferrer to campus this fall to kick off this year’s school-wide course series. Ferrer’s course, Facsimiles and Prosthetics, will explore the nature of fragmentation and the dilemma of restoration, which has long been a source of tension in the history of art and culture. More info...
Isla Hansen joins UCLA Department of Design Media Arts faculty
Hansen is an artist working to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her work reenacts forms of popular media, play, and systems of production, recreating ways in which bodies connect to technologies in the world around us. Recently, she has focused on the way in which camera and robotic systems in the gaming, medicine, food, and sports industries have developed by tracking and positioning the human body as analogue. More info...
Rodrigo Valenzuela joins UCLA Department of Art faculty
Born in Chile, Valenzuela is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, video, painting, and installation. Using autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience, his work constructs narratives, scenes, and stories that point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. Much of Valenzuela’s work deals with the experience of undocumented immigrants and laborers. More info...
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PS
Don't miss the three exhibitions and more than 50 public events offered by the Hammer Museum, the Fowler Museum, and UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance.You can take part in the PST: LA/LA festivities without travelling more than a half-mile from campus (though, if you are reading this from elsewhere, you will likely be tempted to make the trip to Westwood).
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