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A New Summer Minor in Media Arts and Design

A New Summer Minor in Media Arts and Design

Diarmid Flatley, a Ph.D. candidate enrolled in UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology Program, discussed artificial intelligence and his work with “transmodal” arts in an interview with Environmental Studies major Lucian Scher.

Student Spotlight: From a Campus Set to the Big Screen

Student Spotlight: From a Campus Set to the Big Screen

What if you could forget anything you wanted to? To make all your worries and regrets dissipate into nothingness. Would you take the opportunity?

That’s the premise of fourth-year film student Noah Freeman Hecht’s newest short film, Forget Me Again, produced through UC Santa Barbara Film and Media Studies department’s Crew Production course — which he has taken four times in his college career.

HFA Creativity Contest: Music & Video

HFA Creativity Contest: Music & Video

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of student across the UCSB campus. Check out our video and music category winners.

HFA Creativity Contest:  Prose 3rd Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 3rd Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across UCSB’s campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 2nd Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 2nd Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of students across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 2nd Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 2nd Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative student across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 1st Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest: Prose 1st Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest: Photography and Visual Art

HFA Creativity Contest: Photography and Visual Art

This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted the annual creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. The following are the winning submissions in the Photography and Visual arts categories.

HFA Creativity Contest 2023: Poetry

HFA Creativity Contest 2023: Poetry

UC Santa Barbara’s annual Creativity Contest this spring honored three Poetry winners at a Give Day Ceremony in early April. The winners, alongside their work, are featured here.

Give Day 2023: Celebrating Student Creativity

Give Day 2023: Celebrating Student Creativity

UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts celebrated Give Day last week with its annual Creativity Contest. Students from all majors and years submitted works in different categories—photography, prose, poetry, visual art, music and video—for the opportunity to be published on the HFA website. The winners were honored at a luncheon award ceremony.

The Student Behind the Spotlight

The Student Behind the Spotlight

Fourth-year Theater and Dance major Sophie Lynd finds she is able to enhance the emotional impact of her productions through theater lighting design. Lynd has worked on many productions and recently adapted previous lighting designs for the UCSB Dance Company.

Creating a Space for Climate Change Conversations

Creating a Space for Climate Change Conversations

Two UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students created an art exhibition about climate change from the ground up—with no previous art experience. Fourth-year student Lukas Kraak and third-year student Noah Weiss were part of an Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI) year-long course in which they were able to turn their idea into reality. Their exhibition is located on the first floor of the UCSB Library.

From Jazz to Rock: A Student's Music Path

From Jazz to Rock: A Student's Music Path

History and Music student Conor Mack plays guitar for both the UCSB Jazz ensemble and the Isla Vista rock band “Marella.” Mack spoke about how he entered both musical spheres, and how his experience with Jazz helped him fit right in to the world of Rock.

Student Spotlight: A Cadet's Journey

Student Spotlight: A Cadet's Journey

Linguistics student Jennali Reyes is a fourth-year cadet in the UCSB Surfrider Battalion ROTC. UCSB’s ROTC is student run program where fourth-years are in charge of leadership. Reyes has run activities throughout the year as well as an alumni committee. For Reyes, it has been a journey of self-discovery that taught her discipline, with physical training classes beginning as early as 6 a.m.

UCSB Dance Team: A Bronze Win at the Nationals

UCSB Dance Team: A Bronze Win at the Nationals

UC Santa Barbara Dance Team competed at the ESPN World Wide Center in Orlando, Florida last month and took home a bronze medal. They were the only self-coached team at the at the Universal Dance Association’s national competition. A quarter of the members of the team are part of UC Santa Barbara’s dance program, allowing them to apply what they learn in the classroom to the team dances.

Student Spotlight: Exploring an Artist's Workspace

Student Spotlight: Exploring an Artist's Workspace

The Honors Open Studio exhibition featured the works of 10 graduate art students in early February. In Episode 4 of HFA Speaks: The Podcast, UC Santa Barbara communication student Maxwell Wilkens interviews conceptual photographer Trieu Nguyen about inspirations, creative processes, and perspectives on the world of photography.

A Student-Run Journal of History

A Student-Run Journal of History

Late on Tuesday afternoons, like clockwork, a group of ten UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students convene on the third floor of the humanities and social sciences building, bypassing classrooms and teaching assistant offices to reach an office of their own: The Undergraduate Journal of History. The journal publishes the academic research of history undergraduate students from both within and outside UC Santa Barbara. The editorial staff comprises students enrolled in history lecturer Jarett Henderson’s course Internship in Scholarly Publishing.

Expanding the Meaning of Valentine's Day at UCSB

Expanding the Meaning of Valentine's Day at UCSB

Students at UC Santa Barbara were interviewed on video saying they wish to mark Valentine’s Day this year by expanding the definition of love and romance that is the celebration’s focus. And Yuri Fraccaroli, a UCSB graduate student in the Feminist Studies department, sat down for a podcast interview with UCSB Humanities and Fine Arts Division student intern Faith Harvey to view the day through the lens of the LGBTQ+ community.

Student Spotlights: Breaking into the Business

Student Spotlights: Breaking into the Business

Check out these Q & A’s with UCSB Film Students: an Instagram-inspired director, a transfer student making new connections, and an Indonesian student telling untold stories.