Chon Noriega has been named the interim dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Currently a distinguished professor in the school’s department of film, television and digital media, Noriega will begin his tenure Feb. 1 and serve until June 30 — or until a permanent dean is appointed. He succeeds the school’s former dean, Brian Kite, who starts his new role as dean and vice provost of graduate education next month.
Noriega, a faculty member at the school since 1992 and the former director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, is an expert on Chicano and Latino arts, artists and media whose research explores these topics through their aesthetic, social and institutional histories. In conjunction with his scholarship, he has archived and preserved the works and papers of filmmakers, artists and community-based arts institutions and curated numerous projects focused on Chicano painting, graphics and other visual arts. Widely recognized as an expert in his field, Noriega has been praised by ARTnews magazine as one of the curators “shaping the way art is presented around the globe.”
In his 19 years as director of the Chicano Studies Research Center (2002–21), Noriega helped amass the one of country’s largest repositories of archival and library holdings related to Chicano and Latino communities, and organized public programs that reached more than 800,000 people — including exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Autry Museum of the American West and for the Getty’s PST...
Full news release at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/chon-noriega-appointed-interim-dean-of-ucla-school-of-theater-film-and-television.
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