Dreamtigers: UC, Santa Barbara MFA Exhibition, June 6-July 10, 2009

Co-curated by CAF Executive Director Miki Garcia and Artist and Professor in the Department of Art, UCSB, Jane Callister

".....this exhibition at CAF also offers a range of distinct artistic practices and expression from the five MFA graduates. Altogether, Dreamtigers is a unified presentation of emerging artists working in the field today."

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In Studio with Helen Callus, Associate Professor of Music, on Performance Today

American Public Media presents:

Helen Callus has set out on a mission: to increase the appreciation of the viola and to introduce audiences to the amazing repertoire written just for this instrument. Helen joins host Fred Child in the studio with her viola and accompanist Tim Lovelace for conversation and beatiful performances from this too often overlooked instrument. More.

Industry Meets Art in the Innovative Container Project Based on Campus
by Julie Hulse

An unusual pairing of art and industry challenges students to transform a shipping container into an inhabitable, working space. It was a shipping container that brought UCSB Art Professor Kim Yasuda and Santa Barbara businessman Jorgen Staal ’88 together three years ago. Both could see an afterlife for the hulking, steel boxes that were piling up in ports everywhere. Coming mainly from China, the containers were loaded with a bounty of cheap goods, but not much was going back from the U.S. It was too costly to ship the boxes back empty, so they sat idle. View Article.

The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media is currently awaiting the completed construction of its new home at UC Santa Barbara. The new building will include special conference facilities, a public film theater, film and television archives, media labs, production suites, screening rooms, and classrooms that will provide the arena for dynamic curricula, public programming, film series, and residencies. The Center will provide an intellectual as well as a physical space in which the university and the media industries can interact through classes, research projects, and colloquia. For more information, please visit www.cftnm.ucsb.edu.

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