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The Valentine Museum and the Richmond projectionists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui who transformed the Lee Monument have won a $670,000 grant for public art project called “Recontextualizing Richmond.”

Housing and Development Newsletter Tickets to Frazier's talk are $10 for the general public, and free for UCSB students (registration required). For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu. Treating art as activism, Frazier’s body of work includes "The Last Cruze," which documents the devastating effects of a GM plant closure in Lordstown, Ohio; a chronicle of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for Elle Magazine; and an aerial photography series depicting Memphis, Baltimore and Chicago in The Atlantic’s Martin...

Housing and Development Newsletter Dr. Jemison broke more than the sound barrier in 1992 when she climbed aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and became the first woman of color to travel into space. She was also NASA’s first Science Mission specialist performing experiments in material science, life science and human adaptation to weightlessness. Currently at the helm of the 100 Year Starship, a Pentagon-funded effort, Jemison is pioneering and transforming breakthrough science and technology to enhance the quality of life on Earth. She has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of ...