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UCLA Design Showcase West- Save the Date

Sitting in the courtyard of her graduate student housing on Weyburn Terrace, Erika Hirugami ’14, M.A. ’22 is telling the story of what led her to pursue multiple degrees in art history, art business, Chicana/o studies and Mexican studies, and to form two organizations expressly for creative immigrants — all while still a student. 

Building a Portfolio of Hope: 
Mining her own life for inspiration, Erika Hirugami is turning a spotlight on the beautiful art of undocumented creatives. She’s also changing their lives.

Justin Torres, a UCLA associate professor of English, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2024.

The prestigious fellowships, presented by the John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, carry cash awards of varying amounts and are intended to recognize artists, scholars, writers and creative professionals both for their achievements to date and for their exceptional promise. Torres was one of 188 fellows chosen from among almost 3,000 applicants.

Torres, a member of the UCLA faculty since 2015, is a novelist, short story writer and occasional essayist. His second novel, “Blackouts,” won the National Book Award in November 2023, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is currently a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the California Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award.

English professor Justin Torres receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

Saturday, April 27, 2024- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Music in the Garden: Garden Party, Old Growth, 287vinyl

In-Person Lecture and Workshop

For decades, UCLA Library has documented the breadth of Los Angeles area history and culture. Traditional collection strengths include California, early photography, historical periodicals, maps, literature, the arts and fashion, the papers of outstanding civic figures, and the city's diverse communities.

A new UCLA Library video series highlights the region's diverse communities, cultures and historical landmarks through the Library's collections

L.A. Stories

During a two-week residency, Arellano plans to synthesize process and product, engaging in speculative community collaboration and forging connections with communities represented within the Archive.

UCLA Film & Television Archive selects Esteban Arellano as inaugural artist-in-residence

If you were an actor, how would you prepare to play a particular character? You would try to duplicate the look: the facial features, the hairstyle, the costume. You’d practice emulating their voice: accent, intonation, resonance and inflection.

Body Language:  In a new book, a master of motion explains how he teaches Hollywood to move.

39th Annual UCLA Pow Wow

Watching the musical “Mean Girls” at the Pantages Theater, Ingrid Lee was dazzled by the set’s use of LED paneling. While the rest of the audience was engrossed in watching antagonist Regina George get hit by a school bus, Lee said she was fascinated by how technology was used to recreate the realistic scene on stage. 

Read more at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering site

Stage Craft: Computer Science and Engineering Student Blends Performing Arts with AI Technology

Before she was a MacArthur Fellow, before she took the world by storm with sublime multimedia installations, before she had her work shown and her performances installed at the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Museum and the Tate Modern — before any of that — Wu Tsang was simply a young artist from chilly Worcester, Massachusetts. The child of a white mother and a Chinese father, she remembers looking for her place, for where she fit in the world. “I was doing all the things that I still do today, but I didn’t have a label or an identity attached to it,” she says. “I knew what I was excited about, but I didn’t really know where I belonged.”

Living Between Worlds: Wu Tsang M.F.A. ’10 is one of our most fascinating and talented provocateurs, challenging the very notion of what art is — and what it can be.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024- 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Stay Tooned: The Changing Landscape of Editorial Cartooning

Political Cartoons and Nineteenth Century Technical Media

Thursday, May 23, 2024- 5:00pm – 6:00 pm

Music in the Garden with Gabriela Acosta

KCRW PieFest

Over four decades, poet Harryette Mullen has been feted for the vivacity, humor and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of her verse. Yet in her forthcoming collection, composed during the pandemic, the esteemed UCLA professor has carried her wit and puzzle-box playfulness to new heights — literally into the sky. 

Poetry in Motion

During the silent film era in Japan, which extended into the early 1930s, film screenings were accompanied by live narrators, called benshi.

Live narration by benshi Ichirō Kataoka, Kumiko Ōmori and Hideyuki Yamashiro.


Full-fledged artists in their own right, benshi familiarized and enlivened the cinema experience in Japan through expressive performances that illuminated and extended the emotional and thematic range of the works on screen. Benshi such as Tokugawa Musei, Ikukoma Raiyfi and Nakamura Koenami became stars, drawing loyal audiences and commanding high salaries from exhibitors. The art, today, is carried on by a small group of specialized performers who have been apprenticed by the preceding generations of benshi, creating a continuous lineage back to the original performers. In 2019, the Archive was honored to host a weekend of silent film screenings accompanied by some of the leading benshi today. This year, the Archive is thrilled to partner again with the UCLA Yanai Initiative to host another weekend of silent film screenings and benshi performances, this time in conjunction with a first-of-its-kind national tour that will bring this rare experience to audiences across the country. Pairing rare prints and new restorations of Japanese classics, this weekend-long series features three of Japan’s most renowned contemporary benshi, Ichirō Kataoka, Kumiko Ōmori and Hideyuki Yamashiro, performing their unique art live on stage in Japanese with English subtitles. Every performance and screening will be accompanied by a musical ensemble with traditional Japanese instrumentation.

Art of the Benshi

Pigeons have provided a power house of knowledge on learning, memory, and cognition. Now, they also paint! The Blaisdell lab at UCLA has been studying pigeons making digital art using a touchscreen. The goal is to understand the "why" and the "how" of why pigeons make art. What can this tell us about human art? This exhibit features two collections from our pigeon artists. Step into the pigeon artist studio and see what they've been up to!

Aaron Blaisdell, UCLA Psychology Professor and Chair of the Behavioral Neuroscience

EVENT INFO
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, April 24th, 4- 6 pm
CNSI ArtSci Gallery, 5th floor
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

The exhibition will be on display through May 2nd, 2024
Please note that visits during workdays are by appointment only. Contact us at least a day in advance to schedule: artscicenter@gmail.com

Dr. Blaisdell is a Psychology Professor and Chair of the Behavioral Neuroscience area at UCLA, overseeing the Comparative Cognition Lab and the Pigeon Art Project. As a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, the UCLA Integrative Center for Learning & Memory, and the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine program, Dr. Blaisdell has an extensive academic background with a BA in Anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook, an MS in Anthropology from Kent State University, a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from SUNY Binghamton, and two years of NIH-funded postdoctoral training at Tufts University.

Pigeon Art Studio

This talk on Only the Young is led by assistant curator Pablo José Ramírez.

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Lee Seung-taek

The third edition of AUD's annual event "Ideas After IDEAS: An Alumni Panel" gathers another group of wonderful alums for a candid chat about their explorations and journeys after AUD. Laure Michelon moderates a conversation featuring Ismael Soto '14, Simi Shenoy '16, Yaya Zhou '15, and Dumene Comploi '12.