The Department of Art will host Iman Djouini b. Algiers, an artist and educator who works primarily in Print Media, Placemaking, and Typography. Algiers explores gender and postcolonial spatial relations through research-based practice. She is also the director of Social Print Lab, a print media civic design studio between Baltimore City and Los Angeles.

Filmmaker and director of Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross, will join Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Nickel Boys. The story takes place in Tallahassee in 1962 as Ellwood and Turner navigate life at Nickel Academy, a racially segregated labor camp posing as a reform school for children. The film offers a powerful reflection, as it’s shot and told in a first-person point of view.

Kseniia Bolshakova, an Indigenous activist and writer, will visit as part of the new lecture series, “Children’s Literature, Cultural Preservation, and Language Revitalization,” for a talk on her book The Frost Also Melts. The novel explores the fate of Arctic Indigenous nomads through the personal story of a child raised in a traditional reindeer-herding family in the tundra.

The Center of Black Studies Research will host an open house exploring current opportunities within the program. The event will include a screening of Banished, the second featured film of the documentary series, which gives a deeper insight into African American history.

Join POOCH curator Meg Linton for a behind-the-scenes look at how Keith Puccineli’s sketchbooks informed the most recent exhibition. Puccineli, also known as Pooch, was a longtime Santa Barabra graphic designer and fine artist. Linton will share pages of the sketchbooks not seen before, offering insights into Keaith’s working process.