The Moving-Image Lab receives $1M grant
The Moving-Image Lab run by Isaac Julien and Mark Nash received a $1M grant from the prestigious Mellon Foundation funding.
As Gwen Jourdonnais writes, under the leadership of artist, filmmaker, and UCSC distinguished professor Isaac Julien, and his long-time collaborator critic, curator, and UCSC professor Mark Nash, the award will fuel the expansion of the Isaac Julien Lab, an incubator for cutting-edge artistic expression, research, and teaching that works with Arts and Humanities division MFA and Ph.D. students interested in the critical practice of filmmaking, image production, curating, archiving, producing, and presenting still and moving image works.
It will enable Julien and Nash—both joint faculty members in the UCSC Arts and Humanities divisions—to create a robust exhibition and curation/research program at venues in the United States and abroad. The body of work produced through this funding will illustrate IJL's vision of the arts as global, socially impactful, and attuned to correcting inequality and injustice.
In addition, the grant will fund graduate student fellowships, offering practical training in production, curation, and research and publication.
The grant will go to the Moving Image Lab, a new partnership between the Isaac Julien Lab (IJL) and The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz and Julien and Nash will oversee the project.
