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How Curiosity Can Shape an Education—and a Life
You do not have to know exactly where your education will lead before you begin. Artist and UC San Diego visual arts professor Janelle Iglesias entered college expecting to study medicine or public health. Instead, a job mixing glazes and loading kilns introduced her to ceramics—and helped open an entirely different path. Iglesias grew up…
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Finding the Inspiration Behind “Tattooed Trucks of Nepal”
Throughout Nepal, large freight trucks painted by artists provide visual entertainment for travelers along the highways and dangerous mountain roads of the Himalayas. These trucks captivated UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance lecturer emeritus Ron Ranson, who taught theatre design and painting for the stage. Ranson turned his fascination with this colorful art…
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Dreams That You Dare to Dream
The annual Lytle Scholarship Concerts were inaugurated in 1996 to benefit the Preuss School at UC San Diego, a public college prep charter school for grades 6 through 12. The concerts are specific to a composer (e.g., Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt) or to a musical concept or genre (e.g., gospel tunes, tangos, ragtime, Latin jazz).…