Of Interest

People's Inauguration

August 15, 2017

Telling stories that haven't been told

August 9, 2017

Filmmaker and alumnus Tal Skloot aims to show a different perspective with eclectic, meaningful subject matter.

UCSC arts research center awarded $250,000 grant from U.S. Forest Service

July 17, 2017

The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, a research center based in the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz.

Gary Young, Porter Faculty Member, Wins Poetry Award

July 11, 2017

UC Santa Cruz faculty awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts

June 23, 2017

Two faculty members from the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division have each received $25,000 Art Works grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to support their latest documentary film projects.

London’s Barbican Centre celebrates career of film professor B. Ruby Rich

June 20, 2017

The work of feminist writer, film critic, LGBT activist, and UC Santa Cruz professor of film and digital media B. Ruby Rich will be celebrated this week at the Barbican Centre in London.

Campus preparing for commencement 2017

June 7, 2017

More than 4,800 UCSC students are earning undergraduate and graduate degrees for work completed during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Music alum named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year

May 31, 2017

UC Santa Cruz alumna Shelley Phillips (Music,’85) has been named the 2017 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission.

'Be so good they can’t ignore you'

May 23, 2017

Creative obsession and hard work led alumnus Kalen Egan to his role in producing one of Amazon’s most popular television series, The Man in the High Castle.

'Zoot Suit' still relevant four decades later

May 18, 2017

When Zoot Suit premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1978, it was more than just an instant success. As former Los Angeles Times theater critic Sylvie Drake recently observed, “it exploded on the stage with the force of a sociopolitical A-bomb.”

Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium

May 12, 2017

"Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium" is the title of a free public event that will take place on May 18-19, hosted by the E.A.R.T.H. Lab, a research center of the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz.

Theater Arts professor Kimberly Jannarone named National Humanities Center Fellow

May 11, 2017

One of 34 chosen from more than 600 applicants, Kimberly Jannarone will spend the year in the company of national and international scholars from 14 states, Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

UCSC to present environmental video installation at SF’s Minnesota Street Project

May 5, 2017

UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present a dramatic, four-screen video installation in San Francisco, hosted and co-sponsored by Minnesota Street Project, the city’s new contemporary art venue, May 20 through June 24.

Alumni Weekend 2017: Glorious weather, vibrant events bring Slugs home

May 1, 2017

Revelers took a Fun Run, got a crash course in activism, rekindled old friendships, let their hair down, and paid tribute to Sammy the Slug at UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 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

6th Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading 6:30pm Nov 12

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

Year of the Slug: A Look Back at 2012

January 4, 2013

This photo of Steve Collins (Porter '85, Physics and Theater Arts) became a national symbol after the August 5 Mars touchdown, not only of remarkable accomplishment, but also of the new face of aerospace. (photo by Getty Images)

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.