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 materials, being isolated, and facing uncertain futures have all been part of their experience.

The Irwin exhibition usually includes a highly anticipated and publicized group show in the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, complete with a lively opening night party for friends and family, plus a chance show one’s work to the UC Santa Cruz campus community and to the public. The last physical show was in 2019, and last year’s exhibition was the first, and was assumed to be the last, virtual presentation.

However, this year’s exhibition will also have to be virtual but with the valuable experience gained from last year, and again, using cutting-edge 3D modeling tools. 

Entitled, Fabricating Solace, the Irwin Scholarship exhibition, showcases the work of a select group of UC Santa Cruz’s outstanding young artists from the UC Santa Cruz Art Department.

Fabricating Solace opens online on June 3, 2021.

For more information about the Irwin 2021: Fabricating Solace virtual exhibition and related events, and to find out more about the artists, please visit: art.ucsc.edu.

The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division is very grateful for the William Hyde Irwin and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship, now in its 35th year. It is the most prestigious award in the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz, and selection is based on the excellence of the nominees' creative work. Students each receive $2,500. 

This podcast is a production of the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division. Written, edited, hosted, and produced by Maureen Dixon Harrison

Theme music by Eric Mack.

All other music by Kevin MacLeod.

The play will be presented over Zoom on April 23, 2021 and stars Scheie as the Dromio twins -- a part he’s made famous over the years -- along with an impressive cast of UCSC students and alumni. 

After over 30years at UC Santa Cruz, Professor Scheie is retiring from teaching, but thankfully not from acting. He’s enjoyed a spectacular career as a stage actor, winning numerous awards, including the Bay Area Critics Circle Award three times for Leading Actor; two times for Supporting Actor, and once for directing. 

Scheie also has earned consistently rave reviews from major publications like the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several others for the wide array of principal roles he’s performed at top theaters all over the country. 

As you’ll discover in this insightful talk, he candidly discusses his loves, his loses, his addictions, and even his fears. 

His sharp and hilarious observations make him the ideal guest, and it’s no wonder that he’s not only a very beloved professor, but also an exceptionally talented actor. 

We hope you’ll enjoy this lively conversation which, due to continuing COVID restrictions, was recorded on Zoom.

This podcast was produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz.

Theme music by Eric Mack.

"Midnight Tale" by Kevin MacLeod.

For more information about the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division and upcoming events, please go to: https://arts.ucsc.edu
 

Founded in 1991, by UC Santa Cruz drama lecturer, producer, director, and mentor Don Williams, the African American Theater Arts Troupe, or “AATAT” as it’s often called, has had a profound and lasting effect on countless numbers of African American students throughout the years. 

As you’ll find out in this lively and candid talk with Don and two of his alumni, Niketa Calame-Harris and Dr. Eric Jackson-Scott, Don’s tireless work and dedication have inspired so many. 

His students have a deep appreciation, and love, for his willingness to address head on, not only what it means to be Black on our campus, but also the importance of exposing African American students, and all students, to the Black experience through presenting plays written by Black playwrights.

After starting the African American Theater Arts Troupe, Don also founded, in 1993, the Rainbow Theater in order to give students from various diverse backgrounds the opportunity to experience and create multicultural productions. 

We hope you’ll enjoy this thought-provoking and dynamic conversation which was originally presented live, via Zoom, on December 1, 2020 and hosted by KZSC radio’s Luisa Cardoza. 

She talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her ongoing work in print media that adopts emerging print strategies in an expanded art context.

As the director of the  Critical Realities Studio, she talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about this hybrid studio/lab that uses multiple realities, in art, to address critical global issues including climate change, racism and gendered violence.

This year, the screening will be available online through August 31, 2020. To see the films, go to: https://film.ucsc.edu/socdoc

This year's filmmakers and their films are:  

Kyle Baker: The Eighth Province

Andrés Javier Camacho: Open Line

Carlos Campos: Campos de Sueños-Fields of Dreams

Melanie Dang Ho: sống ở đây | to live here

Jeanne Rachel Lieberman: Desiertos Verdes

Mahshid Modares: Sanctions on the Sky

Brian Myers: Far From Kawthoolei

Deepika Shrestha Ross: Momo America

Boris Yaikin C.: The Songwriter's Mission

Founded in 2005, SocDoc has a contemporary view of documentary that sets it apart from traditional approaches. Students considering enrollment should have a clear idea of a project, a commitment to social justice and human rights, and a desire to study their subject areas in depth.  

UCSC's SocDoc program prepares graduates for careers in independent media, documentary, human rights work, and creative contributions to a range of fields.  

This podcast was produced, edited, written and hosted by Maureen Dixon Harrison, Asst. Director of Communications, Arts at UC Santa Cruz.

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 effects that distance has on individual, group, community, and worldwide levels. With confidence that such great constraints generate new and creative ideas,Collective Solitude aims to explore our present, estranged world where everyone is experiencing some form of loss and separation while working diligently and finding unique means to come together and support one another. 

Showcasing a variety of approaches to contemporary art practice, the exhibition included drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, artists’ books, and video installation. Due to county and statewide health ordinances regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, these works were shown virtually through a 3D model of the Sesnon Gallery and accessible online, 24/7.

The 2020 Irwin Scholars are Aaron Martinez, Anastasia Oleson, Angel Gonzales, Chloe Murr, Dominic Ramirez, Edgar Cruz, Emma McWaid, Jocelyn Lee, Joshua Zupan, Morgan Tomfohr, Natalie Del Castillo, Rodrigo Ramos, and Veriche Blackwell.

About the Irwin Scholarship and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
As a way of ensuring that others would have the kind of art education that allowed her to flourish in the art community, the late Sue Irwin established the William Hyde And Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund in 1986 in honor of her husband. The Irwin Scholarship and group show is granted annually to undergraduate UCSC students for proven excellence in the arts.

Julien was awarded the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s birthday honours, 2017.