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UCSB Professor Richard Ross Brings ‘Beautiful Trouble’

“I don't think anybody can turn on any media … without feeling that the world is sand at their feet. How do you address that?”

UCSB Professor Richard Ross Brings ‘Beautiful Trouble’

Approaching the end of a near-40-year tenure at UC Santa Barbara, Professor Richard Ross culminates his approach to teaching and praxis in a colloquium designed to expose eager minds to alternative, socially engaged art practices. Eleven weeks long, with 11 artists and 250 students, concluding in a major lecture by the Guerrilla Girls , and marking the beginning of Professor Ross’s retirement, ‘Making Art in a Time of Rage’ has never been more relevant.