In this episode, we find ourselves still working in isolation due to ongoing COVID restrictions and without access to classrooms, offices, or numerous essential tools. But with a new found hope that our lives are slowly returning to a new norma

Award Winning Actor/UCSC Theater Arts Professor, Danny Scheie, Talks About His Storied Career

Apr 13th, 2021 43m 34s

In this episode, host, Maureen Dixon Harrison, had the great honor of talking with theater arts professor and San Francisco Bay Area theater legend Danny Scheie as he was preparing for a live reading event of his signature piece, Shakespeare’s

Building Community for 30 Years: UCSC's African American Theater Arts Troupe

Jan 6th, 2021 55m 33s

In this episode, the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division is thrilled to kick off our new Arts Lecture Series by celebrating the upcoming 30th anniversary of UCSC’s African American Theater Arts Troupe.Founded in 1991, by UC Santa Cruz drama lecturer, p

Jimin Lee: Print Media Artist

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 17m

Professor Jimin Lee's work explores themes of mobility, displacement and labor on the personal and social level as seen in traffic, places of transport, or objects that move or are "in transit" -- travel in both the daily and in the migratory s

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor: Producer, Director, Documentary Filmmaker

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 22m

Professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's work is regularly seen around the world through broadcast, film festivals, and theatrical screenings at venues like the Sundance, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, International Documen

micha cárdenas: Game Theorist and Performance Artist

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 18m

Professor micha cárdenas sees education as a path to liberation, and her teaching focuses on discussion, interactivity and creative practice as research. cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology. As the director of th

Michael Chemers: Dramaturg

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 23m

Professor Michael Chemers, founding Director of the Bachelor in Fine Arts Dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University and Associate Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his "Ghost Light" mod

Dee Hibbert-Jones: Academy Award Nominated, Emmy® Award Winning Filmmaker

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 19m

Nominated for an Academy Award for her animated documentary film Last Day of Freedom (co-directed with Nomi Talisman), Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her work that incorporates animation, installation, publ

UCSC SocDoc Students Talk About Their Thesis Films

Sep 2nd, 2020 35m 31s

The nine documentaries in this year's SocDoc program are the culmination of an intense two years of immersion by the students into the art of documentary media and craft, scholarly research and analysis, nonfiction storytelling, and the politic

Rachel Nelson: Curator and Interim Director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 32m

Rachel Nelson, PhD, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her artistic journey that has led her to become the interim director of UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS). Nelson also teaches in the UCSC’s History of Art and

UCSC Irwin Scholars 2020 Talk About Their Virtual Exhibition

Sep 2nd, 2020 40m 19s

Visit: https://arts.ucsc.edu Produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz.The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery presented IRWIN 2020: Collective Solitude, the 34th annual I

Isaac Julien: Filmmaker and Installation Artist

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 17m

Internationally renowned filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien , Distinguished Professor, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his multi-screen film installations and photographs and how he incorporates different artistic discipli

UC Santa Cruz Arts Students Leave Campus Due to COVID-19

Sep 1st, 2020 4m 48s

During March of 2020 students at UC Santa Cruz had to suddenly leave campus due to state county regulations regarding the spread of COVID-19.Produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts

A.M.Darke: Conceptual Artist and Game Designer

Jul 16th, 2020 1h 38m

Game designer, conceptual artist, and protester Professor A.M. Darke shares stories of her work around race, identity, gender (including Kanye West), and even a bit of joy for dungeons and dragons. Guest host Lyle Troxell also chats with her ab

Welcome to the Art of Change: Ted Warburton

Jun 9th, 2020 24m 33s

As part of the 2020 Arts Dean's Lecture Series, special guest host Lyle Troxell interviewed nine UC Santa Cruz Arts Division faculty artists:Ted Warburton, Interim Dean of the Arts and Professor of DanceA.M. Darke, Assistant Professor, Art & De

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The Art of Change Trailer

May 29th, 2020 1m 44s

The Art of Change podcast features a closer look at the news and events happening at the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division, as well as in-depth interviews with various faculty members about their art practices.

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