Five years after state budget cuts moved the University of California at Santa Cruz’s prestigious program in science illustration to the extension school, the program will close next spring, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported today.
The graduate program’s students, many of whom majored in science, must learn to tell stories through art, while maintaining accuracy. The program is highly regarded among illustrators.
But after two and a half decades of producing graduates who make drawings and paintings for museums, magazines, and field guides, the program fell victim to further budget cuts and will close its doors, along with the extension school’s English-language international program. —Lila Guterman
