Arts Constellation: Societal Impact in Real Time

Our faculty are using the arts to engage with society's most pressing problems and to shape conversations around the future.

Read some of their stories.

News

Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

Professor Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) launches world's first certificate in internet infrastructure at Berkeley

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

February 10, 2025

Art Practice Professors Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi Play Pivotal Role in $2 Million Climate Action Arts Network Initiative

January 7, 2025

UC Berkeley Awarded $2.6 Million Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

December 20, 2024

American Theatre: Remains and Resistance: Native Voices’ ‘Antíkoni’

November 6, 2024

Berkeley News: Damon Young: Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

September 7, 2022