Submissions Open for 2025 Chancellor's Council on the Arts Class Artist Competition
The UCLA Chancellor’s Council on the Arts is seeking submissions for its third-annual Class Artist competition to honor the creative practices of this year's graduating students.
The mission of the Chancellor's Council on the Arts is to center the arts in the heart of UCLA's identity and purpose, knowing that the arts enable human connections, motivate and celebrate creativity and curiosity as they nourish communities and foster a more just, equitable and sustainable society.
Graduating students from any of the academic units affiliated with the Chancellor's Council on the Arts may nominate themselves or a fellow classmate to be honored for a specific original work created at any point during the artists time at UCLA. Work from any artistic discipline will be considered--music composition and performance, writing and spoken word, theatrical and dance performance, film productions, digital and video arts, sculpture, fine arts, graphic or architectural design.
The affiliated campus units are:
- UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
- UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
- UCLA College, Division of Humanities
- UCLA College, Division of Social Sciences
Deadline for submissions is March 24, 2025. Submit via the form linked here: https://forms.gle/AXQRUBz23f3YcabQ9
One graduate student and one undergraduate will be honored and will each receive a 2024 15-inch MacBook Air M3 (valued at $1,500) provided by the Chancellor's Council on the Arts.
A panel of alumni will review image, video, audio and print submissions and select one graduate and undergraduate student to be honored. These students will be informed by early May and interviewed as part of UCLA's commencement storytelling package which will be published on UCLA Newsroom and UCLA social media channels. We expect to receive a large number of submissions and anticipate it will be difficult to select two winners. We also will partner with UCLA Strategic Communications to identify additional storytelling opportunities, based on submissions, to uplift art and artists from our community around commencement.
For any questions, please connect with Jessica Wolf, director of arts communications and marketing: jwolf@stratcomm.ucla.edu
Read more about the 2024 and 2025 Class Artist projects:
