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the organizers of the art show, mentors and faculty advisors
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Photos by Hannah Frogge and Andrew Dang
Clockwise from top left: Kristine Joy Chua, Amy Boddy, Hannah Frogge, Kim Yasuda, Anastasia Senavsky and Emilie Risha

'Originalia' art show celebrates the human reproductive system

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Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings
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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.
Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way
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Mourning widows helped preserve postwar German art music
Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover
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Courtesy photo
Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.

A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera
A woman seen from behind standing a window that opens to a brick wall
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Courtesy photo
The piece "Hope," by an anonymous artist, is part of the exhibition "Woman. Life. Freedom."

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks

A rich and unsung legacy comes to light in ‘The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks’
Portrait of Joao Pedro Oliveira
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Debra Herrick
"It is definitely a very special highlight in my composition career," said João Pedro Oliveira on receiving an award from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Composer João Pedro Oliveira is awarded a Guggenheim
Ceramic reproduction of a meat market store front.
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Ruben Diaz
Christopher Suarez, La Gaviota Meat Market, detail, 2022, ceramic

To lionize his Long Beach barrio, Christopher Suarez turns to clay
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón
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COURTESY OF UCSB LIBRARY SPECIAL RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón

Vast tango archive of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla funded for preservation
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Documentary screening features Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa
A couple dances to cumbia in the film Yo Soy No Guapo
“Yo No Soy Guapo,” 2018, directed by Joyce Garcia

Cumbia connects nations and generations through music and dance
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