Of Interest
People's Inauguration
February 16, 2019
Question Bridge: Black Males exhibition opens Feb. 6 at Sesnon Art Gallery
February 1, 2019
'Question Bridge: Black Males' is an exhibition in which a wide array of videos have been merged together to simulate face-to-face conversations between a diverse group of more than 160 black men across the United States.
'What refugees taught me about Shakespeare'
January 24, 2019
On Jan. 31, New York theater director Jessica Bauman will come to campus for a special evening at Kresge Town Hall titled 'What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare.' Together with UCSC professor Cat Ramirez, she will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration crisis.
Art professor receives 2019 Creative Capital Award plus SFFILM artist residency for new documentary film
January 23, 2019
UC Santa Cruz professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has received a 2019 Creative Capital Award for "Run With It," a feature-length animated documentary film she is currently working on in collaboration with San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman.
Seed-funding innovation
January 15, 2019
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees seeks interesting new projects to fund.
Institute of Arts and Sciences to present talk by politically provocative artist Glenn Ligon
January 8, 2019
Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, which draw on the words of such diverse figures as Richard Pryor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein. On Jan. 15, the Institute of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Ligon at UCSC's Digital Arts Research Center
DVD box set curated by Shelley Stamp wins 2018 New York Film Critics Circle Award
December 4, 2018
"Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers"--a Kino Classics box set curated by UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor Shelley Stamp and executive produced by actress, director, and screenwriter Illeana Douglas--has received a 2018 Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Summer abroad programs offer hands-on learning opportunities
November 30, 2018
UC Santa Cruz has significantly expanded its faculty-led summer abroad programs, now offering seven different opportunities for students to further their education in other countries.
Last chance to see 'Forest Law' by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares at UC Santa Cruz
November 16, 2018
Forest Law 2014, a 38-minute multi-channel video installation and photo text assemblage based on research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is currently on display at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery through December 1.
SocDoc alumna’s film about Syrian women refugees to have world premiere at DOC NYC
November 7, 2018
We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11) will have its world premiere on November 14 at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States.
Summer Session at UCSC
April 9, 2018
Gary Young, Porter Faculty Member, Wins Poetry Award
July 11, 2017
Irwin 2016: May 25 – June 11 Sesnon Gallery
May 26, 2016
EXTRAV(M)AGANZA – Celebration of Student Work: 7:30 pm June 2
May 26, 2016
2016 Porter College Commencement: 9 am June 11
May 26, 2016
Queer Fashion Show 8 pm May 13-14
May 12, 2016
13th Annual Cesar Chavez Convocation 7 pm May 18
May 12, 2016
Irwin 2016 Sesnon Gallery May 25 – June 11
May 10, 2016
Gamelan Concert - Celebrating 40 Years at UCSC May 14
May 10, 2016
32nd UCSC Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation 7PM February 12
January 29, 2016
29th Annual Multicultural Career Conference
January 29, 2016
Porter Family Day - Saturday January 30
January 29, 2016
Porter Visiting Artist: Katerina Cizek - 7pm January 25
December 9, 2015
Collective Museum by Public Doors & Windows - Sesnon Gallery
December 9, 2015
Last Day of Freedom Film - Kresge Townhall 3:30pm Thursday 12/3
December 1, 2015
Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California & UCSC Nov 6-7
November 3, 2015
Slug Parade and Expo October 25
October 1, 2015
Raymond Saunders: Black is a Color - Sesnon Gallery
September 28, 2015
An Uncommon Place: Shaping UCSC Campus - Sesnon Gallery April 8 - May 9
April 1, 2015
Doc/Undoc: The object itself carries within a crisis of identity: What is it exactly?
October 7, 2014
Porter College Hosts Ceremony for 94 Newly Naturalized U.S. Citizens
July 3, 2014
Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2014
July 3, 2014
UCSC Orientation 2014
July 3, 2014
Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2013 - The Last Huzzah
August 29, 2013
2013 Digital Arts & New MEDIA MFA Exhibition May 2-5
April 29, 2013
Dinner Parties: Art & Agriculture 4/10-5/11 Sesnon Gallery
April 8, 2013
Making the Insitute: 3 Conversations Friday April 26 - new interdisciplinary Institute of Arts & Sciences
April 8, 2013
Spring 2013 Slug Shuttle to/from San Jose Airport & Train Station
March 14, 2013
Porter Chalk Festival April 6-7
March 14, 2013
October 19, 2012
The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial October 20
October 5, 2012
Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite - Sesnon Gallery October 3-November 21
October 3, 2012
Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite
Irwin Scholars 2012 Showcase at Sesnon Gallery May 23 - June 17
May 18, 2012
Reverend Billy: Occupy Earth & Justice 8:30pm Wednesday, May 23 Porter Dining Hall
May 17, 2012
Mark Adamo's "Little Women" Thursday May 31 to Sunday June 3
May 17, 2012
Slug Mascot Art by Marc Ratner on Display at Cowell
May 8, 2012
Shakespeare 2012 Festival Season July 24 - August 26
May 8, 2012
"Emerging Worlds" - Faculty Exhibition, Sesnon Gallery, April 11-May 5
April 26, 2012
Katerina Lanfranco: Sesnon Gallery "Natural Selection" Feb 1 - April 13
January 27, 2012
The Sesnon Gallery presents artist-in-residence and UCSC alumna, Katerina Lanfranco's new, large-scale, site-specific, hand-cut installation made in collaboration with UCSC students.
OpenLab Art + Astrophysics Exhibition Until October 26
October 21, 2011
OpenLab provides a unique opportunity for ART and SCIENCE discovery to work together in energetic and untapped explorations of research at the University of California Santa Cruz.
September 29, 2011
Sesnon Gallery: Xiaoze Xie's Resistant Archeology Exhibition October 12-November 23
September 29, 2011
This stunning exhibition of new larger-than-life paintings, prints and provocative video installation showcases Xiaoze Xie’s use of books and newspapers to symbolize the fragile nature of compressed history and memory.
Fall recreation, intramural sports guide now available online
September 21, 2011
Porter College Transfer & Frosh Combination Welcome Week Guide 2011
September 12, 2011
Porter College Transfer & Frosh Combination Welcome Week Guide 2011
Chip Lord: Public Spaces at Sesnon Gallery Feb. 2 - March 5
January 21, 2011
UCSC Professor Emeritus Chip Lord was trained as an architect and is a media artist who produces both single-channel films and video installations. As a founding member of the alternative architecture collective Ant Farm (1968-1978), Lord co-produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame and built the Cadillac Ranch roadside sculpture in Amarillo, Texas.
