• Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

    2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range of media. Grenier is both inspired by the beauty of life closely examined and horrified by man’s trajectory. She works from a large mental catalog […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Sesnon Salon: History of Art & Visual Culture

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Artist Talk for “Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective”

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

    The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]

  • Artist Roundtable for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

    The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]