UC Santa Barbara alumna Alex Hoffman is a New York-based costume designer who graduated as a history and theater double major. She combines her knowledge in history and theater to design characters for Broadway, television, and film.
English major Natalie Gomez reminisces about Isla Vista’s pre COVID-19 film culture by spotlighting Magic Lantern Films, a film screening program sponsored by UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
Sam Rankin, third-year art major in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and art director for the Daily Nexus, discusses how her experiences with various classes she has taken in the Department of Art have influenced her greatly as a comic artist.
UC Santa Barbara sociology major Olivia Roberts reflects on her discovery of the Linguistics Department and how the culture of language applies to her experience as an out-of-state college student.
UC Santa Barbara’s music department is adapting online teaching methods to create virtual solo and chamber music sessions in light of COVID-19 social distancing measures.
At her virtual Friday evening book launch, UC Santa Barbara writing lecturer and former ballerina Ellen O’Connell Whittet spoke to over a hundred colleagues, friends, family, and students over Zoom about her new memoir: What You Become in Flight. O’Connell Whittet described how ballet normalizes “sacrificing the body, to contort it into something perfect” and why a career-ending injury made her consider how this principle impacted her life.
Though Carsey Wolf Center is unable to hold in-person film screenings this quarter due to COVID-19, post-film conversations with media experts from past screenings are available online. Catch up on previous discussions about filmmaking as Pollock Theater showcases past events as a weekly “Series Spotlight.”
Since 1998, Pastor Victor Bell has been leading the Gospel Choir at UCSB. In an interview, he speaks about his career, his passion for gospel music, and his relationship with his students in the UCSB Gospel Choir.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum has responded to its COVID-19 imposed closure by creating digital portals for the public to be able to tour exhibits and collections. Read more about it here, along with an invitation by acting directly Silvia Perea to engage with the museum via feedback comments.