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Visual Studies students and alumni at the Institute for Arts & Sciences (IAS), UC Santa Cruz, 2023. Courtesy of IAS. Photo: Anne Martinete
Alex Moore and Tatiane Santa Rosa join the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences Team
Rachel Nelson, Voices of the Century video
Rachel Nelson Curates for a Cause
Kristen Laciste outside FIT campus.
Kristen Laciste accepts Assistant Professor position at SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
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Kristen Laciste hired as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Smarthistory
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled, ca. 1920, gelatin silver print, 8⅜ x 4⅞ in. (21.0 x 12.4 cm). Jersey Heritage Collections, St. Helier, Jersey (artwork © Claude Cahun; photograph provided by the Jersey Heritage Collections)
Jordan Reznick’s article "Through the Guillotine Mirror: Claude Cahun’s Theory of Trans against the Void,” published in Art Journal
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Jordan Reznick awarded Getty/NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Amber Hickey discussing the process of banner making at a “Propaganda Party” organized in the context of their Activist Art course at Colby College (Waterville, Maine.
Amber Hickey joins the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga as Assistant Professor of Art History
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Alum crystal am nelson accepts tenure-track position at CU Boulder
Ace Lehner performing Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure, social practice, installation (2019-ongoing), image courtesy of the Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Ace Lehner accepts Assistant Professor Position at the University of Vermont
Michelle Yee
Michelle Yee appointed Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
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MIT Press has just published Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany by Sara Blaylock (Visual Studies PhD 2017)
Brinker Ferguson graduation day
Brinker Ferguson awarded American Institute of Conservation "National Heritage Responder" fellow for her work on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage at Dartmouth College
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Ace Lehner featured in Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale, at the International Center of Photography
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Ace Lehner guest edits the first-ever issue of ART JOURNAL dedicated to trans visual culture
Director of the Institute of the Arts and Science Rachel Nelson (left), Associate Professor Gina Dent (center), Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis (right).
Mellon Foundation award to support Visualizing Abolition
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Ace Lehner publishes book on Self-Representation
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crystal am nelson Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn State
Amber Hickey
Amber Hickey accepts position as Faculty Fellow of U.S. Visual Culture in Colby College's American Studies Program
Aubrey Hobart accepts position as Curator of the Roswell Museum and Art Center
Mary Thomas
Mary Thomas joins “Mexican American Art Since 1848” as Postdoctoral Associate
Amanda M. Maples in the Thomas K. Seligman Gallery of African Art, Cantor Arts Center, where she installed the permanent exhibition In Dialogue: African Arts. Photo courtesy of Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.
Amanda M. Maples accepts position as Curator of African Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art
Brinker Ferguson
Brinker Ferguson is awarded Neukom Post-doctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College
Rachel Nelson, curator and program manager, Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), UC Santa Cruz
Rachel Nelson receives Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award
Mary Thomas
Mary Thomas curates three exhibitions as research associate at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
Sara Blaylock
Sara Blaylock accepts tenure-track position in Art History at the University of Minnesota -Duluth