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HAVC End of Year/Graduation Celebration
HAVC’s End of Year/Graduation Celebration will take place on Thursday, June 12th from 1:00 – 3:00 PM at the Porter College koi pond courtyard (outdoors). All HAVC students are most welcome, and we especially hope our graduating seniors will join us (with family/supporters if they’re in town). Graduates will be presented with a cord. Students: Please RSVP…
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Professor Stacy Kamehiro Awarded 2025 ACLS Fellowship
Awards Recognize Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences Research UC Santa Cruz is proud to announce that Professor Stacy Kamehiro has been awarded a 2025 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The longest running program at the organization, ACLS Fellowships support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Professor Stacy Kamehiro has been recognized as one of 62…
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HAVC Graduate Studies Panel: Preparations, Applications, and the Review Process
When: Wednesday, May 7th from 12:00 – 1:00 PMWhere: Porter D-245 Please join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Albert Narath (Director of Graduate Studies, HAVC), Maria Evangelatou (Professor, HAVC), and Jennifer Gonzalez (Professor, HAVC) on preparing for graduate studies in history of art and visual culture. The panelists will discuss how undergraduates can best prepare…
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First Friday with the HAVC Reps!
Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History with the HAVC Reps! Join us for a tour of the exhibitions and then for some pizza at Woodstock’s afterward! Including the new exhibition at the MAH, HOWL: The Art & History of Pets. RSVP is appreciated but not required. Hope to see you there! When: April 4th…
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Jeppe Ugelvig & Axelle Toussaint are part of the inaugural cohort of the THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellows
Jeppe is a curatorial fellow at the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley where he is producing an exhibition catalogue for the Collection’s current exhibition, Portraits, and organizing future exhibitions and programs that highlight the uniqueness of the institution’s media art holdings. Axelle is an exhibition fellow at the de Young Museum in San Francisco where she…
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Nora Khan – Discernment: Generative Images, Synthetic Media and Evolving Critical Impulse
Creative Technologies & History of Art and Visual Culture present a guest lecture by Nora Khan as part of Creative Interventions: A Colloquium in Arts, Design, and Media. Discernment: Generative Images, Synthetic Media and Evolving Critical Impulse What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we…
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HAVC Graduate Student Panel w/ Q&A
Please join us to learn about graduate school from current students in HAVC’s Visual Studies Ph. D program! Our panel of graduate students will be talking about their backgrounds, how they decided which programs to apply to, life as a graduate student, career goals, and more! There will also be time for questions. Friday, Feb. 21st 1:30…
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First Friday With The HAVC Reps
Visit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) with the HAVC student reps! Join us for a tour of the exhibitions and then free pizza at Woodstock’s afterward. Includes the new exhibition Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz. Date: This Friday, Feb. 7th at 5:30 PMLocation: The MAH @ 705 Front Street (downtown Santa Cruz)
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HAVC Student Event: Trivia Luncheon
Join your HAVC student reps, Morgan and Grace, for a Trivia Luncheon on Friday, January 31st. The event will take place in Porter D-248 from 2-5 pm. We will have a host of questions spanning HAVC and UCSC history! We will also have free pizza from Woodstock’s.
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Aaron Samuel Mulenga exhibit at the Sesnon Gallery
Aaron’s first solo exhibition in the United States, Ukupupuka: An Exploration of Transcendence is currently on view at the Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UC Santa Cruz. Ukupupuka, translated from Bemba (the most spoken language in Zambia) to English, means flight. Through the body of work in this exhibition, History of Art and Visual Culture PhD candidate Aaron Samuel…
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Ukupupuka Exhibition Artist Talk: January 22
Ukupupuka: An Exploration of Transcendence – Works by Aaron Samuel Mulenga Please join us on January 22, 5-6pm for an artist talk at the Sesnon Gallery on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The gallery is located at Porter College, above the koi pond Ukupupuka, translated from Bemba (the most spoken language in Zambia) to English, means flight. In Ukupupuka: An Exploration…
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Ukupupuka Exhibition Celebration: January 15
Ukupupuka: An Exploration of Transcendence – Works by Aaron Samuel Mulenga Please join us on January 15, 5-7pm for the exhibition celebration. The exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery on the UC Santa Cruz campus runs from January 8 – February 8, 2025. The gallery is located at Porter College, above the koi pond. Gallery hours:…