Anne van Biema Fellowship — 12/15/2014 Supporting Excellence in Research in the Japanese Visual Arts Trees; 17th century; Master of I-nen Seal 1600-1630); Early Edo period. The Anne…
GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
M.F.A. Graduate Bridges Place and Art The new Bay Bridge is still more than a year away from opening, but it’s already inspiring the art of Amanda Hughen,…
Submitted for your perusal: student-faculty creations, through the ARC Fellows program In 2009 the Arts Research Center on campus created a new platform for faculty-student collaboration called the ARC Fellows program, in which…
From the Berkeley school to the New York school New York painter Norman Kanter B. A. ‘54, M. A. ’55 has been enjoying his views of lower Manhattan since renovations took place on his loft in Tribeca, where he’s lived and worked for more than 40 years. The project, says Kanter, led to some surprising revelations.
We, Robot In recent years, Berkeley has become a hotbed of robotic activity, to the point where there’s a virtual subculture across many disciplines, involving faculty, alumni, grad students, undergrads, and postdocs in a broad variety of powerhouse labs and research groups and projects.
A grad-student artist documents the ageless and preserves the temporary Miguel Arzabe Art Practice M.F.A. candidate Miguel Arzabe is a West Oakland urbanite who loves the outdoors. He documents his wilderness hikes…
Portraits & Observations: Emily Prince documents the cost of war In her San Francisco studio, artist Emily Prince quietly continues a work-in-progress, her vast memorial to U.S. troops whose lives were lost in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The artwork she’s created, completely by hand, consists of thousands of individual, wallet-size portraits, finely drawn in graphite, that, when arranged on a wall, create a very large map of America.