Emily is a fourth-year HAVC and Anthropology double major from San Jose, California. They are interested in issues of colonialism, gender, and identity. They are focused on studying Palestinian textiles and embroidery as a celebration of culture, expression of identity, and tool for resistance.... more
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Ben is a fourth-year HAVC and LALS double major from Pasadena, CA. Some of his academic interests include Latinx Art, Chicanx Art, Public Art, and Performance Art. Outside of school, he enjoys running, drawing, candy, and watching cartoons. Ben is a gallery attendant at the Institute of Arts and... more
My name is Hannah Currey and I use she/they pronouns. I am in my final year of study in the HAVC department. I’m particularly interested in Western European art specifically pre and post-revolution France.
Contact Hannah: hcurrey@ucsc.edu
Fiona Donovan is a 4th-year HAVC major with a concentration in Curation, Heritage, and Museums. She is passionate about museum collections care and spent the summer working on a project to catalog works in the Eloise P. Smith Gallery’s permanent collection and update artwork storage. Fiona is... more
Alex is a third-year HAVC major from Oakland, CA. Academic interests include installation art, environmental art, as well as architecture. Alex is also interested in different architectural communities that have developed during the information age as well as the influences a global network has... more
Casey is a fourth-year HAVC and literature major from Santa Monica, CA. She is concentrating on both Curation, Heritage, and Museums and Creative Writing. Her academic interests include environmental art, museum architecture and how to provide a theoretical framework for artistic analysis. She... more
Kyla is a fourth-year HAVC major from Livermore, California. She is currently involved in a sorority and has an internship with City Arts Santa Cruz. She is interested in the business/administration aspect of the art world, and is planning on getting her masters in Arts/Cultural Administration... more
Maxine is a fourth-year HAVC major with a concentration in Curation, Heritage, and Museums and an Education minor from Oakland, CA. She is interested in decolonizing and reshaping museum institutions to become more representative of different identities and perspectives. She believes art is a... more
Ella is a third-year double major in HAVC and CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies). She is studying in the Curation, Heritage, and Museums concentration of the HAVC major, hoping to work in curation or museum education post-graduation. Currently, Ella is working as an assistant editor of the... more
Morgan is a second-year HAVC major from Huntington Beach, California. She is interested in feminist art, specifically studying how female artists use their artwork to deconstruct gender roles and hierarchy. Outside of school, she loves reading, thrifting, and doing makeup on herself... more