UCLA Chancellor’s Council on the Arts Seeks Your Input

October 9, 2013

UCLA Office of the Chancellor

To: Deans, Faculty, UCLA Extension Arts Instructors, Vice Chancellors and Vice Provosts

Dear Colleagues:

I have recently formed an advisory council to advise Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, relevant deans and me on opportunities related to the arts, entertainment, performance, creativity and related scholarship at UCLA.

The primary focus of the UCLA Chancellor’s Council on the Arts will be to connect and mobilize UCLA’s rich and diverse artistic communities, drawing upon our strengths in such areas as visual and performing arts, film and television, creative writing, digital arts and media, architecture and urban design, humanistic research on the arts, public arts curation and presentation, K-12 arts education, community arts, international programs in the arts and arts policy.

During the course of the coming year, the council will develop strategies to highlight and extend the ways in which arts at UCLA enhance both our campus and Los Angeles; to increase the visibility of our artistic programs and scholarship; and to strengthen our links to Los Angeles’ vibrant cultural, arts and entertainment communities in Los Angeles.

Scott Waugh is the chair of the council. Other members are:

Randall Arney – Artistic Director, Geffen Playhouse
Judith Baca – Professor of Chicana/o Studies and World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Marla Berns – Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director, Fowler Museum
Robert Bilder – Tennenbaum Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Professor of Psychology
Myung Hee Cho – Assistant Professor of Theater
Kristy Edmunds – Executive and Artistic Director, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA
Robert Fink – Professor of Musicology
Peter Guber – Professor of Film; Chairman and CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group
Michael Hackett – Professor and Chair, Department of Theater
Miwon Kwon – Chair, Department of Art History
William McDonald – Professor and Chair, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
Cindy Miscikowski – Member, School of the Arts and Architecture Board of Visitors; President, Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners
Catherine Opie – Professor of Art
Ann Philbin – Director, Hammer Museum
David Schaberg – Dean, Division of Humanities
Teri Schwartz – Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Eddo Stern – Professor of Design | Media Arts
Carol Stogsdill – Associate Vice Chancellor, UCLA Communications and Public Outreach (ex-officio)
Neal Stulberg – Professor of Music
José Luis Valenzuela – Professor of Theater
Linda Venis – Director, UCLA Extension Department of the Arts
Richard Walter – Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media
Christopher Waterman – Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture
Harold M. Williams – Chair, School of the Arts and Architecture Board of Visitors; Dean Emeritus, Anderson School of Management; CEO Emeritus, J. Paul Getty Trust
Richard Yarborough – Professor of English

To guide and inform their work, council members seek input from the entire campus community about how we can enhance the role of the arts at UCLA. We invite any comments or information you wish to share, and especially welcome your ideas for fostering greater collaboration on campus and for establishing and maintaining a presence in our local and academic communities.

Please send comments to ArtsCouncil@conet.ucla.edu, preferably by Monday, October 28. If you have any questions, please contact Traci Considine in the Office of the Chancellor (310-206-8003 or tconsidine@conet.ucla.edu).

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Gene D. Block
Chancellor