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The Art of ChangeThe 2021 Irwin Scholars Talk About Their Exhibition "Fabricating Solace"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 normal as the pandemic finally recedes. We’re still on Zoom a lot these days, too, and these interviews were conducted on that platform and therefore do have some sound variances.For over a year now, students have persevered with remote learning and have discovered virtual ways to present their work. Lacking crucial mate...2021-05-2557 min
The Art of ChangeUCSC SocDoc Students Talk About Their Thesis FilmsThe 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 politics of representation. These new media makers are trained to go "Beyond The Story", documenting communities, cultures, issues, and individuals who are marginalized in the current landscapes of representation, and the films shown here are the finished results of these studies.This year, the screening will be available online through August 31, 2020. To see the films, go to: https://film.ucsc...2020-09-0200 minThe Art of ChangeUCSC Irwin Scholars 2020 Talk About Their Virtual ExhibitionVisit: 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 Irwin Scholarship Award exhibition, which showcases the work of a select group of UC Santa Cruz’s most promising young artists. The virtual exhibition took place during June 2020.Collective Solitude features thirteen artists whose works speak to this extraordinary period in history characterized by tremendous isolation and yet also incredible communal action. Their art addresses the many eff...2020-09-0200 min