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Dear Art Department Community, We are excited to a Dear Art Department Community,
We are excited to announce the next speaker in our Spring 2026 Arts Colloquium will be given by Althea Wasow.

WHO: filmmaker Althea Wasow
WHERE : ILP 2101
WHEN : Thursday, May 7th 5:00-6:50pm

Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies. Her films—including the wannabe (starring Ramón Rodríguez; Best Short, HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival) and The Whole World Revolved Around Her (featuring Wangechi Mutu)—have screened at national and international film festivals and at cultural institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Queens Museum. A co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that uses art and design to expand civic participation, she has also taught in jails and prisons in New York and California. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Film and Media (Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory) from UC Berkeley.
 
She is currently revising her monograph, Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives, on the complicity and resistance between police power and motion pictures in early cinema, and is in production on two new essay films. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSB, she was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences, where she curated the film series “Ornament and Abolition.” Her collaborations in film and visual culture include For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (media researcher/consultant, 2010), An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (senior editor & co-writer, Steidl, 2007), Rikers High (co-producer, Showtime, 2005), and The Innocents (producer & project editor, Umbrage, 2003/2005).
 
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Dear Art Department Community, Please join us on F Dear Art Department Community,
Please join us on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm - 8:00pm for the First Year Review show with artists: Rachel Corry @rachelseessnailshoes, Yaroslav Golovkin @yyy_rrr_ccc, Charlie Hodes @hodesart, and Cody Igo #codyigo.

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Dear Art Department Community, We are excited to a Dear Art Department Community,
We are excited to announce this week’s speaker in our Spring 2026 Arts Colloquium is art historian and curator, Jenni Sorkin. @jennisorkin 

WHO : Jennie Sorkin 
WHEN : Thursday, APRIL 30th. 5:00pm - 6:50pm
WHERE : ILP 2101
 
Jenni Sorkin is Professor and Chair of History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art, working primarily on women artists and underrepresented media. Her books include Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women Artists, 1947–2016 (Skira, 2016), and Art in California (Thames & Hudson, 2021). She has contributed scholarly essays to major exhibition catalogs and books that seek to reconfigure the received histories of twentieth century art, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College (ICA Boston,2015), Outliers and American Vanguard Art (National Gallery of Art, 2018), Among Others: Blackness at MOMA (MOMA, 2018), Groundswell: Women of Land Art (Nasher, 2023), and the Postwar Reader: A Global History, 1945-1965 (Duke University Press, 2025). Her work has been supported by the ACLS, Center for Craft, Getty Research Institute, and Smithsonian Institution. She is a 2025 recipient of the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Book Grant.

All lectures are free and open to the public.
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