Ana Fernandez and her “chili queens” dish out Tex-Mex food from her San Antonio food truck, Chamoy City Limits. The truck has also become a source of inspiration for Fernandez’s paintings. Although Chamoy City Limits initially began as a simple business venture for Fernandez, the artist and alumna said she eventually began to see a […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Production of ‘Spring Awakening’ navigates gender roles, adolescent hardship
Evelina Stampa’s school got in trouble for discussing “Spring Awakening” in class, but now in graduate school, she’s directing the same play on the main stage of the Little Theater. The story chronicles the struggles that a group of children face as they enter adolescence and the tragedy that results from their ignorance about adult […]
Student tells creatives’ narratives in solo project ‘MOVEMENT JOURNAL’
Sebastian Moraga dove headfirst into the California art scene six months ago, mingling with visionaries at music concerts and neighborhood bodegas to create his most recent artwork. The fourth-year world arts and cultures student displayed his project “MOVEMENT JOURNAL: Identity, Neighborhood Change, Interdisciplinary Arts” at “InSight,” a senior showcase for students in the world arts […]
‘Visible People’ to showcase Asian-American, Pacific Islander cultural diversity
Mary McHenry and Jared Ortaliza came up with the idea for the show “Visible People” while eating dishes of pad thai and pad see ew. McHenry, a third-year ethnomusicology student and Ortaliza, a second-year pre-human biology and society student, had both been thinking independently about putting together a showcase of Asian-American and Pacific Islander artists. […]
UCLA Taara brings light to domestic abuse issues through South Asian dance
Third-year psychobiology student Devika Chandramohan said many people tend to associate South Asian culture with Bollywood movies and Indian food. However, the region also has a rich history of classical arts that she and other members of UCLA Taara hope to share at “Utsav,” a showcase of classical South Asian music and dance, the showcase’s […]
A twist on ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ updates examination of gender roles
Shayna Warner wrote the characters in “The Taming of the Shrew” as women, but she kept the play’s original gender pronouns in the last scene the same. The fourth-year world arts and cultures student is directing the Shakespeare Company at UCLA’s production of “The Taming of the Shrew” in an attempt to address gender dynamics […]
Art organization Graphite focuses on provoking conversation, not specific art forms
Gabe Pine explores a conceptual pairing of love and action movies in his poem “Bonus Round.” The final lines opine, “Action movies are faster now because every action movie rushes home to a love poem.” Pine published his work in May on the online platform for the art organization Graphite. Like much of Graphite’s published […]