Visit our new online newsletter Arts News featuring highlights and events in the arts in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and other programs at UC Santa Barbara.
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB includes all of the arts--Music, Drama, Dance, Art--as well as History of Art and Architecture, Film and Media Studies, and the Media Arts and Technology Program. Offering not only bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the arts, these programs offer BFA, MFA, and DMA degrees. Majors and graduate students receive rigorous training in the arts through programs of study that offer both professional training and the theoretical and historical contexts of the humanities. Students have opportunities to perform or exhibit their work and interact with distinguished visiting artists and critics. Internationally-recognized scholars and artists teach undergraduate and graduate students and advance their fields with innovative research, publications, and creative activity that both preserve our traditions and map new fields of study.
Working closely with the UCSB Arts & Lectures, our arts departments have featured residencies and classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Anne Bogart, the Miami City Ballet, and the Guarneri String Quartet.
The UCSB Summer Theater Lab brings nationally prominent theater artists to the campus of UC Santa Barbara for two weeks each summer to create and develop new work for the theater in an innovative, interdisciplinary, process-oriented production lab creating a remarkable opportunity for UCSB students and faculty to work closely with some of the leading and most innovative theater artists in the country, such as the award-winning theater ensemble Campo Santo and the celebrated Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Alumni include artist Richard Serra, actors Michael Douglas and Benjamin Bratt, screenwriter Scott Frank, and director Brad Silberling. The Michael Douglas Visiting Artists Series has sponsored residencies with Paula Vogel and Steven Berkoff, the Juilliard Quartet and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Tony Kushner.
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts also works closely with the University Art Museum, which has a collection of over 7,000 works of art and an Architecture and Design Collection comprising 500,000 items that is one of the largest repositories of architectural records in the United States. Departments and faculty also collaborate with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and many of the dynamic arts institutions in Santa Barbara, such as the Ensemble Theater, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Santa Barbara Dance Theater, the Lobero Theater, the Music Academy of the West, and the Contemporary Arts Forum.
UCSB has been selected as the new home of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA). This multi-campus institute is the only state-wide organization representing the arts on the ten campuses of the UC system. This is an exciting development for the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, UC Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara arts community. The arts can help the University of California as a whole make the case that the university enriches the culture of the state not only for its students but for all of its citizens. Announcement.
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Summer Theater Lab, 2005. PHOTO: Sean San Jose (left) and Ryan Hall in Naomi Iizuka's adaptation of "Hamlet," directed by Jonathan Moscone.
Undergraduate Art Exhibit,
UCSB Art Museum Gallery. Portrait by Carrie Ayon.
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