Eli Thorne, “Blissed & Babbling,” 2025, one of the works on display in “Open Inquiry: UC Arts,” an exhibition of recent alumni work at the Sausalito Center for the Arts from March 14 to April 12. Thorne is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley. (Credit: Courtesy image)

At a time when students across the nation are finding that opportunities to get a degree in the arts are dwindling, UC’s doors are open — and the arts are more popular than ever.

There’s still time for Bay Area-based staff to catch “Open Inquiry: UC Arts,” hosted by the Sausalito Center for the Arts and open through April 12, 2026.

Curated by Ginny Duncan, formerly of UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem Museum, and UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Board member Jennifer Bailey Wechsler — herself a UC Berkeley and UCLA alumna — the show highlights the arts as a necessary form of public engagement in which UC students are as relevant and successful as ever.

Three of the fastest-growing majors at UC Berkeley are not related to science or technology, noted Sara Guyer, dean of the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley, but music, art practice, and film & media studies. Students are actively seeking an embodied research experience that cuts across all fields of research and open inquiry.

Read more about how the arts are captivating UC students at the UC Newsroom

And, learn more about the “Open Inquiry: UC Arts” show in Sausalito.

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