UCR ARTSblock

University of California, Riverside, has recently brought together its three premier art institutions to create a new cultural complex: UCR ARTSblock. ARTSblock is composed of the California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art Gallery, and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts. Located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings in downtown Riverside, easily accessible to the public as well as the campus, ARTSblock's mission is to provide a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the community.

ARTSblock's programs investigate the art of our time, media arts, and the history and practice of photography through exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, artist residencies, permanent collections, and creative laboratories. ARTSblock presents significant national and international art and photography, and showcases UCR student artwork and regional artists.

ARTSblock's activities embody University of California, Riverside's commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. ARTSblock offers innovative programs that engage diverse audiences, nourish the imagination and challenge assumptions.

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Performers at UCR ARTSblock’s 2015 Indigenous Choreographers of Riverside event

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Passing Down Native Knowledge Through Dance

Native American dance pioneer Daystar/Rosalie Jones has spent her career spreading the understanding of her culture and its people.

Job Piston, "OisÃn," 2013. | Courtesy of the artist.

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Job Piston: Fossilizing the Ephemeral

Artist and photographer Job Piston talks about his unique chemical portraiture process and print installation, currently on view at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside.

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Hiromi Takizawa's ULTRAVIOLET Illuminations

Hiromi Takizawa's "ULTRAVIOLET: Light Installation" explores the role of light in architectural and environmental spaces.

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Joe Biel: Drawing Vast Negative Spaces

L.A.-based artist Joe Biel will create a 45-foot mural, "Sentry," at the Culver Center of the Arts as part of his first solo exhibition in Southern California in several years.

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Stillman's Plays Explore the 50th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, UCR ARTSblock presents a staged reading of two one-act plays by Deanne Stillman.

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A Cinematic Gem in the Inland Empire

A unique venue for experimental, independent, and foreign films; Culver Center of the Arts' screening room is a cinematic oasis within the Inland Empire.

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Amy Myers' Monumental Drawings

Artist Amy Myers creates abstract forms that reference simultaneously the movements of subatomic particles, trajectories of cosmic events, mandalas for mediation, and female sexual physiognomy in her new exhibition.

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Zoe Crosher and the Michelle duBois Project

L.A.-based artist Zoe Crosher's newest exhibition features an extensive body of work in which the artist re-imagines the seemingly endless personal archive of one woman -- the pseudonymous "duBois."

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Patrick Quan's Accidents, Failures, and Fantastical Landscapes

Artist Patrick Quan's new installation transforms numerous spaces into a turbulent dreamscape of contemplative and confrontational portals for the viewer to peer through.

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Geographies of Detention, Inside and from Afar

The California Museum of Photography's exhibition, "Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag," merges art and activism, exposing the realities of U.S. prison systems through visual form.

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Rediscovering SoCal

L.A.’s Olympic Aspirations

KCET Cinema Series

UCR ARTSblock