On a spring day in Merced’s Applegate Park, the man sat in front of a camera, spinning memories. He described decades of Latin music and dance pulsing in the city, moments drawn from eight decades of life and stories told by aunts and uncles.
His two interviewers took notes and checked the...
Global Arts Studies
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, or in this case art.
Each year Global Arts Studies Program Lecturer Richard Gomez brings students to Yosemite to create an art installation...
What is art’s place in turbulent times? How does an immigrant live and thrive in a host country with laws that render one’s existence alien? And how does one continue to see beauty even...
Parents don’t have to venture to San Francisco to give their children a taste of opera. With UC Merced’s Children’s Opera, little ones can have a unique cultural experience without...
In what world are Shakespeare and hip-hop related? Ask Devon Glover.
Glover is The Sonnet Man, a Shakespeare-loving rapper who sets The Bard’s famous sonnets to hip-hop instrumentals. Using...
UC Merced is a research institution and while groundbreaking work is done in its labs, that doesn’t mean the arts aren’t thriving, too.
For the past 10 years, the Write! Look! Listen!...
Three enterprising Global Arts Studies Program (GASP) students saw the empty UC Merced Art Gallery on campus and, worried the space would be reallocated, wondered why they couldn’t volunteer to...
UC Merced Global Arts Studies Program presents two free spring concerts, “Songs of Spring,” featuring original music and selections from each of the performers' musical backgrounds,...
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” — William S. Burroughs
The economic and educational...
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