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Beatriz Cortez Wins Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists

February 5, 2018

Beatriz Cortez

Professor Beatriz Cortez, Central American Studies, has won a 2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists in Los Angeles. Cortez is one of seven artists who received the prestigious award, a $10,000 unrestricted grant for demonstrating critical and rigorous work in the field of contemporary art, as well as an ability and commitment to making future substantial contributions to the visual arts. Read more

Scott Kleinman's WE1S Project Awarded $1.1 Million by Mellon Foundation

October 16, 2017

Scott Kleinman

The WhatEvery1Says Project (WE1S) co-directed by English Professor Scott Kleinman has been awarded $1.1 million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Along with co-directors Alan Liu, Professor English at UC Santa Barbara, Jeremy Douglass, Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, and Lindsay Thomas, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, Kleinman will spend the next three years studying the representation of the Humanities in public discourse. Read more

For Latino Artists in Sci-Fi Show, Everyone’s an Alien

August 25, 2017

Beatriz Cortez

By RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The shiny steel space capsule, a 12-sided metal contraption, looked more like a theatrical prop than anything truly orbit-worthy. And it was getting crowded inside. A heavy desk, bookshelf and fireplace — all made out of steel — lined one wall. Still to come was a metal trunk. “If I had to go in a space capsule because I couldn’t live on earth anymore, I’d want it to feel like a home,” said the capsule’s creator, the El Salvador-born Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez [Professor, Central American Studies], who  Read more

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