Gluck Fellows of University of California, Riverside

JT Lachausse is a M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at UCR. He earned a B.A. in Fiction from Columbia College Chicago, and he was the editor for The Matador Review. His literary work has been published both online and in print, in publications such as Hair Trigger, pioneertown, and The Adirondack Review. As a Gluck Fellow, JT taught a workshop that was called "Building Spaces: Using Memory to Write the Senses", which provided a space fo...r students to identify environments that are special to them, write about those places, and share their stories with their fellow classmates. These spaces and places that are special to each student are attached to their identities, so by sharing their stories about these special spaces, they are sharing their cultures and identities by bringing them to life with pencil and paper for others to hear about. #ucrgluckfellows #arteducation #creativewriting See more

Talia Mason is a dancer and choreographer interested in the intersections of kinesthetic and verbal language. She grew up dancing at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. Talia choreographs because she believes wholeheartedly that ordinary bodies can do extraordinary things and that anyone can dance and that everyone should dance. As a Gluck Fellow, Talia taught a workshop called "Finding Flow through Movement", which gave students an o...pportunity to learn movement games and yoga fundamentals. Prior to moving to Riverside, Talia taught Movement full-time to Pre-school through Kindergartners at Greene Towne Montessori School in Philadelphia. Talia graduated magna cum laude, phi beta kappa with a B.A. in Dance and Francophone Studies and Education from Bates College and a post-baccalaureate in performance from Headlong Performance Institute. Talia’s work has been presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Movement Research’s Open Performance and at Fringearts’s Scratch Night. Talia is now graduating with an M.F.A. in Experimental Choreography from UCR. #ucrgluckfellows #arteducation #danceeducation See more

As a Gluck Fellow, Rebekkah Hart taught a workshop she created called "Becoming Visually Literate: Reading and Writing an Aztec Codex", which introduced students to the Aztec culture and focused on Aztec pictorial writing while building visual literacy and visual communication skills. Check out our Gluck Creative Classroom to find the syllabus and workbook for Rebekkah's workshop! Rebekkah Hart is a M.A. student at UC Riverside in the History of Art department with an empha...sis on the devotional art of late medieval and early Renaissance England. Rebekkah was awarded a research grant to study medieval English alabasters at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where she had previously spent a semester studying. She has also spent several months in Siena, Italy where she studied medieval Tuscan art. She previously graduated in 2019 from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in Art History & Curatorial Studies. Rebekkah hopes to pursue a Ph.D. and become a university professor of art history. #ucrgluckfellows #arteducation #arthistory See more

Next in our #UCRGluckFellows spotlight is a graduating Ph.D. candidate in Critical Dance Studies, Kelly Bowker! As a seasoned Gluck Fellow, Kelly has taught several dance programs, such as "Dance Your Numbers", which taught students how movement can be synchronized in a dance through the practice of counting the music, and "Your Body is Your Instrument, which taught students how to warm up their bodies and the use of different body parts. She has also created videos as a fe...llow, which you can find on GluckTV Kelly previously earned a M.A. in Choreography from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a B.F.A. in Dance from University of Michigan. Kelly’s choreography has been seen on the stages of the Garage, Union Square, CounterPULSE and ODC in San Francisco as well as the Menomonee Club and Chicago Art and Design Center in Chicago. She has been teaching movement to students ranging in age from three to eighty-five for over a decade and is a certified Pilates instructor. She has also taught dance in public schools through SFArtsEd, Leap, and Montgomery County Council for Arts and Humanities. #ucrgluckfellows #arteducation #danceeducation

Alexandra Henry is a graduate student studying Art History. She received her bachelor’s in art history and classics & archeology from Loyola Marymount University, where she was on the Dean’s List and graduated cum laude. Having worked as a Getty Multicultural Intern for two summers at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, she understands the importance of incorporating diversity into an educational setting. She aspires to challen...ge museums to become more culturally diverse and accurate by becoming a museum curator one day. "The Color of Ancient Greece" is a program that Henry created and taught as a Gluck fellow, and it aimed to expose students to the archeological and historical aspects of Ancient Greek statuary. Students got to be archeologists for the day by finding "broken fragments" and putting them back together. Once the statues are "restored", students then had the opportunity to learn about the history of how ancient statues were once colored, and they got to see other possible careers relating to the arts. #ucrgluckfellows #arteducation #arthistory

Congratulations the cast of Time Travelers after completing their pilot program. We're looking forward to your fall performances! Griffin Denniger, Devany Harden, Hannah Hyatt, Liana Mesaikou, Kiyhari Sabee-El, Carlos Gutierrez and Chelsea Ramirez

So many current and former Gluck Fellows in this program

Gluck Fellow Alessio Olivieri and Elisa Ramon perform as the Operaperta Duo

Throwback to 2015 SuperCampers at Gluck Summer Camp - Where are they now? Josh, JC, Elias, Ajay, Natalia

DROP SEEDS NOT BOMBS Let's make Seed Bombs ! Free Activity at UCR Earth Day Fest