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On February 23 at 12:00pm PST, Gluck Student Fellows Lawrence Ramirez and Elizabeth Carleton will guide participants through a virtual exploration into artworks in the exhibition Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection.

Please note, Lunchtime Art Break is virtual.

This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Lunchtime Art Break is supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

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Join us for the Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 26, 2022
7:00 – 9:00 pm

UCR ARTS is widely known for celebrating photographs, and this season we are thrilled to offer exhibitions that highlight various aspects of the dynamic medium:

California Stories: Photographs from the Stephen White Collection II features over 150 images encompassing more than a century of photography, offering idiosyncratic visions of the golden state.

In Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection, thirty-three images dating from the 1920s–90s by renowned artists such as Chuck Stewart, William Gottlieb, and Barbara Morgan, reveal the magic that happens when a photographer captures a precise moment in a performing artist’s life. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Join us in celebrating these exhibitions at our Opening Reception on Saturday, February 26, from 7pm to 9pm. Admission is free and refreshments will be served outdoors.

Please register and read through our required
guidelines to help us ensure this is a safe event for all:

• Proof of full vaccination is required for visitors 5 years and up to attend. You will be asked to show a printed or digital copy of your vaccination card.
• All visitors must also complete the UCR Wellness Survey on the day
  of the reception and show staff a clearance message to enter.
• Face masks are required for visitors 2 years and up.

For additional questions email ucrarts@ucr.edu or call 951-827-4787

This event is made possible by the generous sponsorships of Altura Credit Union and Anheuser-Busch.

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Join us for Slow Art Sundays on select Sundays for free tours of our current exhibitions. Slow Art Sundays are a time to slow down, look closely at a few works of art, and discuss. On February 13 and February 27 at 2pm PST, Gluck Student Fellow Ashley McNelis will lead a virtual discussion exploring what’s outside the frame in photographs from the Subway series and Brooklyn series in Lift Your Head: Bruce Davidson and the Evolution of Seeing. The exhibition is currently on view at the California Museum of Photography until February 27, 2022.

Lift Your Head: Bruce Davidson and the Evolution of Seeing is sponsored by UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and the City of Riverside.

Slow Art Sundays are supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

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Join us for First Thursday Tours at UCR ART where we will look closely at a few artworks in the current exhibition Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection. Gluck Student Fellow Lawrence Ramirez will walk visitors in this free in-person tour through an examination of these classic photographs, focusing on how musicians and their musical instruments are represented in the unified act of music-making. Participants are encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences of these artworks. The docent will facilitate and offer context as the tour generates ideas and inspirations from the artworks.

This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

First Thursday Tours is supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

Image: William Gottlieb, Django Reinhardt, c. 1950. Courtesy of William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Choreographer: André M. Zachery
Dancers: Imran Afzal, Jessica Barajas, Brianna Gomez, Ami-Maxine Hill, Hana Kondo-Bacon, Susana Saldivar
Gluck Dance Coordinator/Grad Leader: Magnolia Yang Sao Yia
Sound: “A Wise Tale” by Abstract Mindstate, “Comet Course” by Flying Lotus, “Comet, Come to Me” by Meshell Ndegeocello

Description:

Transference is a 10-minute dance performance that looks at what it means to inherit a space, a ritual, a history, a vibe, and add one’s own narrative to a lineage. African Diaspora traditions across Black cultural landscapes are passed from one generation to the next. This dance calls upon various movement traditions that span from Hip hop vernacular, Capoeira, and dance-hall alongside sonic variations of Hip hop, electronic dub and contemporary electro-acoustic rock, to expand on Afrofuturist explorations of collective resistance.

Choreographer bio:

André M. Zachery (b. 1981) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist of Haitian and African American descent, and is a scholar, researcher and technologist with a BFA from Ailey/Fordham University and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College. As the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group his practice, research and community engagement artistically focuses on merging choreography, technology and Black cultural practices through multimedia work. André is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow in Choreography, a 2019 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Choreography and a Bessie Nominee for Breakout Choreographer in 2021.

​As a scholar he has been a member of panels, led group talks, facilitated discussions and presented research on a myriad of topics including Afrofuturism, African Diaspora practices and philosophies, Black cultural aesthetics, technology in art and performance and on expanding the boundaries of art making within the community. He has been a panelist and presented his research at institutions such as Duke University, Brooklyn College, University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. André has taught at Brooklyn College and been a guest faculty member at the dance programs of Florida State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Ohio State University, University of California Los Angeles and University of California Riverside.

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Join us as Black Kirby and Larry Fuller engage in a lively discussion, followed by a Q&A.

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund. Third Thursday Talks: Black Kirby & Larry Fuller is presented in partnership with Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Events Series. Learn more at: https://inlandiainstitute.org/about-us/blacklandia/

Inlandia Institute is a regionally focused literary and cultural arts nonprofit and publishing house whose mission is to promote literary activity in all its forms throughout Inland Southern California and to celebrate the region in word, image, and sound.

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On March 23 at 12:00pm PST, Gluck Student Fellows Lawrence Ramirez and Elizabeth Carleton will guide participants through a virtual exploration into artworks in the exhibition Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection.

This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Lunchtime Art Break is supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

Image: William Gottlieb, Dizzy Gillespie, 52nd St., New York, N.Y., c. 1948. Courtesy of William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Join us for a day of relaxation and contemplation on international Slow Art Day. Start the morning with yoga from Infinite Love Yoga at the Culver Center of the Arts to set the tone of mindfulness and relaxation for the day. Then join three Slow Art tours where we’ll look closely and have a conversation about artworks in current exhibitions at UCR ARTS. Take an afternoon break in between tours for a sound bath meditation at Infinite Love Yoga.

Schedule:

10:00-11:00am – Yoga with Infinite Love Yoga (at UCR ARTS)

11:00-11:45am – Slow Art Tour

1:00-1:45pm – Slow Art Tour

2:00-3:00pm – *Sound Bath Meditation (at Infinite Love Yoga Studio)

3:30-4:15pm – Slow Art Tour

*All programs are at UCR ARTS except for Sound Bath Meditation which will be held two doors down at Infinite Love Yoga Studio.

Slow Art Tours are supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

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Now Hear Ensemble combines the intimacy of the classical concert experience with electronic music, video art, installation art, and contemporary theater, embracing both contemporary music and pop culture, as they believe a cross-genre approach leads to new territory for creativity.

Based in Los Angeles, the Now Hear Ensemble has performed at renowned venues such as the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego, the Center for New Music in San Francisco, the Fisher Museum at the University of Southern California, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara and the Carlsbad Music Festival. Now Hear has held residencies at Avaloch Farm Institute, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara and has had their music featured by BBC Radio 3.

Since their founding in 2012, the ensemble has commissioned and premiered over 25 new works from composers such as Florent Ghys, Dan VanHassel, Carolyn Chen, Anthony Paul Garcia, Nick Norton, Constantin Basica, Joshua Carro, Jon Myers, Luke Taylor, Federico Llach, Marc Evans, Anders Lind, Mateo Lugo, Daniel Miller, Fernando Rincón Estrada, Eoin Callery, Kevin Zhang, David Gordon, Iván Naranjo, Brandon Rolle, Mason Hock, Heena Yoon, David Werfrelmann, and Todd Lerew. Past projects have included a collaboration with California-based composers that resulted in their debut album and tour, “Made in California,” as well as commissions of  installations and concert music made with bicycle wheels, paper shredders, ping-pong tables, megaphones, and custom-made instruments.

The Outpost Concert Series presents virtuosic and dynamic performances of music that fearlessly explores groundbreaking territory. Our featured artists come from across the country and connect Riverside’s musical culture with a larger, national scene.

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Join us for First Thursday Tours at UCR ARTS where we will look closely at a few artworks in the current exhibition California Stories: Photographs from the Stephen White Collection II. Gluck Student Fellow Lawrence Ramirez will walk visitors in this free in-person tour through an examination of these photographs, focusing on images relating to transportation, from vehicles to infrastructure.

Capacity is limited and visitors will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis when checking in at UCR ARTS’ front desk.

Image: Unknown Artist, Untitled (Spruce Goose During Flight Test), November 2, 1947

First Thursday Tours are supported by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program is made possible by the generosity of the Max H. Gluck Foundation.

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