“Just as the medical sciences are devoted to extending and improving the quality of life, the arts help us to understand the essential reasons for that life, the deeper values, visions and commitments that sustain our will to survive.” – Dean Christopher Waterman

20. UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures alumni at WAC is Back, an open house celebrating the reopening of Glorya Kaufman Hall, October 2005, photo by Bill Short 21. UCLA Department of Music’s “U-Sing-It Messiah” featuring the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra with assistant professor Michael Dean as George Frideric Handel (standing left) and maestro Louis Magor, right, December 2005, photo by Bill Short 22. Left to right, UCLA Live director David Sefton, Royce Center Circle member Shirley Shapiro, vocalist Nancy Wilson, and RCC member Ralph Shapiro at the Billie and Me post-concert reception for Royce Center Circle, October 2005 23. UCLA Live Endowment co-chair Peter Mullin with wife Merle Mullin and cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the Chancellor’s Residence following the Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax performance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, December 2004 24. Year of the Arts banner at the Fowler Museum, October 2004, photo by Todd Cheney 25. Matthew Bourne’s “Nutcracker!” UCLA Live, December 2004, photo by Catherine Ashmore 26. “Notes on Micromultiplicity” exhibition, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2005, photo by Gerardo Rivera