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Good afternoon SSHA students! </div>
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The Bobcat Art Show is back, and we want to feature YOUR work! <b>Open to all UC Merced undergraduate & graduate students, staff, and faculty</b>, this annual exhibition showcases the creativity of our campus community at La Galería. Tell your colleagues, peers,
classmates, professors, etc! </div>
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Whether you’re a painter, photographer, sculptor, or filmmaker, this is your chance to share your art!</div>
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<b>📅 Submission deadline: April 4, 2025</b><br>
🖼 <b>Exhibition dates:</b> May 1 – May 17, 2025<br>
🔗 <b>Submit your work here: <a href="https://forms.office.com/r/LKgT3tcYvD" id="LPlnk916271" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://forms.office.com/r/LKgT3tcYvD">
Bobcat Art Show Submissions</a></b></div>
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<b>Accepted Mediums:</b></div>
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🎨 Painting, drawing, photography, video, textile art, sculpture</div>
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<b>Submission Requirements:</b></div>
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Must be original artwork created within the last 4 years</li><li style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Cannot have been displayed in a previous Bobcat Art Show (last 4 years)</li><li style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Physical media required (ex: Digital work or photos must be printed, sculptures must be structurally sound)</li><li style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Must be ready to hang/display when dropped off at La Galería</li><li style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Hanging hardware & limited frames available upon request – email <a href="mailto:ggarnica2@ucmerced.edu" id="LPlnk313515" class="OWAAutoLink" title="ggarnica2@ucmerced.edu">
ggarnica2@ucmerced.edu</a> after submitting your form</li></ul>
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📩 Artists will be notified of acceptance on April 5 with drop-off instructions.</div>
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For questions, contact Gallery Manager ggarnica2@ucmerced.edu or UC Merced Arts: arts@ucmerced.edu.</div>
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<b>🎬 Film Screening Tonight at La Galería!</b></div>
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Catch a thought-provoking documentary <b>TONIGHT (March 18)</b> at<b> 7pm in ACS 102</b>, as part of La Galería's Actions for the Earth programming. Another documentary will be showing later this week on Thursday. </div>
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📽 <b>March 18:</b> <i>Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene</i><br>
📽 <b>March 20:</b> <i>2040</i></div>
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These films explore how art, technology, and the environment intersect -<a href="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm">
</a><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm" id="OWA1e6df74d-2f6a-7146-13cd-121d97181f31" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm">RSVP HERE.</a></b><a href="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm" id="OWAb1fb0e27-03c5-0cdd-4472-bd0cefce902a" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm"> </a></div>
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<b>🌎 Spring at La Galería – A Must-See Exhibit</b></div>
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<b>The Actions for the Earth exhibition is on view through April 19th</b>, featuring works that explore the relationships between art, the environment, activism, and the body. There’s also a great lineup of programs alongside the exhibit:</div>
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🚶 <b>Curator-led Tour:</b></div>
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📅 <b>April 2</b> – Tour with <b>Sharmila Wood</b></div>
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🎨 <b>Workshops & Ongoing Programs:</b></div>
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<b>💙 April 4</b> – Cyanotype Workshop with <b>Sierra Sown</b></div>
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🌱 <b>March 7 – April 18 (Fridays):</b> Tours of the <b>Merced Vernal Pools & Grassland Reserve</b></div>
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📍 <b>Register for any of these programs here:</b> <a href="https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm" target="_new" id="OWAe834b0f1-f7e7-c809-761f-3aa805116394" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener" data-end="2718" data-start="2654">
https://linktr.ee/lagaleriaucm</a></div>
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Thank you for your time and for considering these opportunities! Get involved with the arts, be communal, and support creative spaces at UC Merced. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>Mahealani LaRosa</b> </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">[they/she/he]</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies|</span><span style="color: rgb(107, 164, 58); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u><a href="https://gasp.ucmerced.edu/" id="OWAaca77f9c-3e18-f14d-62f0-068cf9336c9a" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://gasp.ucmerced.edu/" style="color: rgb(107, 164, 58); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gasp.ucmerced.edu</a></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Interdisciplinary Humanities|</span><span style="color: rgb(107, 164, 58); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ih.ucmerced.edu/" id="OWAf40961c5-e980-be71-e52b-78819618923e" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://ih.ucmerced.edu/" style="color: rgb(107, 164, 58);">ih.ucmerced.edu</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></div>
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and colonized ancestral lands</a></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i> of</i></span></div>
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<i>the Yokuts, the Miwuk people, & the endemic/endangered fairy shrimp</i></div>
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