The Luis J. Rodriguez papers at UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections are processed and open to researchers. The finding aid is live on the Online Archive of California. Rodriguez was born in El Paso in 1954 and grew up in Watts, the San Gabriel Valley, and East Los Angeles. He joined the 1968 East…
Woman Grinding Corn, ceramic, Western Mexico, 200 BCE, 200 CE, AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, 2017.015.013 (photograph by Moises Guerrero Gallegos). Moises Guerrero Gallegos has published an essay on one of the AD&A Museum’s ceramic figurines, Woman Grinding Corn, in the new issue of Imagine: A Promise & McNair Scholars Undergraduate Journal. The piece, “Fragments of History: The…
Please join us for a special symposium to mark the official inauguration of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Research, next Friday, May 15th, at 1 pm, in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020). We will gather to hear about the research and activities of the CLAIR Labs, followed by a keynote address by documentary…
Melanie Carvantes UCSB Library’s California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Las Maestras Center for Xican[X] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Praxis; and the Mellichamp Chairs for Racial Environmental Justice Fund are pleased to announce the Artist in Residence: Melanie Cervantes. This collaboration includes the Art Department and Santa Barbara Public Library and will bring the…
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Telar, an open-source platform for building interactive visual narratives around high-resolution images. Telar produces free-standing websites using a minimal-computing approach — no servers, no databases, no installation, and no ongoing maintenance costs. Participants will work through the full workflow: setting up a project on GitHub,…
Forge Project, a Native-led nonprofit organization on the unceded homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck in Upstate New York, is pleased to announce its open call for applications for its 2026 funded fellowship program for Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators. The application is live and the 2026 application period will end on Sunday,…