Features | Summer 2026
Features | Summer 2026
We’ve leaned hard into the humanities with our features this time around. Most notably: our cover story about Gauchos from our film and media studies department — alums and faculty alike — who are lighting up Hollywood, and how UCSB helped ready them for their closeups.
We’ve also got a profile of standout alumni artist Tiffany Chung, who traces how histories of climate, conflict and displacement unfold across time — while pointing toward new ways of living with change — through hand-drawn and embroidered maps, sculptural installations and immersive media.
Lastly, we cover UCSB Library’s fruitful collaboration with the Dust-to-Digital Foundation to digitize and make a vast collection of historic American music available for free.
Cut to Success
Versed in theory before technique, UCSB alums — some faculty, too — keep landing on studio lots, streaming hits and awards season shortlists.
By Shelly Leachman
At the scale of the earth
Artist Tiffany Chung traces how histories of climate, conflict and displacement unfold across time — while pointing toward new ways of living with change
Musical Americana
UCSB Library partners with the Dust-to-Digital Foundation to preserve a vast collection of historic American music. Anybody is welcome to listen in — for free
