Bottle Village and the impact of transportation on midcentury folk art
Doctoral candidate receives dissertation fellowship to research impact of midcentury travel & transportation on 'self-taught artists' including Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley
View ArticleHarmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the...
An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.
View ArticleTo lionize his Long Beach barrio, Christopher Suarez turns to clay
A new exhibition at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum "ESPIRITUTECTUAL" features three dimensional ceramic sculptures from the Latino and immigrant working class neighborhood where Suarez grew...
View ArticleA gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s...
The public art installation "Woman. Life. Freedom," created in response to systemic gender inequity and discrimination in Iran, will be projected outside the Art, Design & Architecture Museum
View ArticleArt professor and artist Sarah Rosalena Brady draws inspiration from the...
In solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, LACMA and Columbus Museum of Art
View ArticleThe curious histories and lives of seaweeds, revealed in stories and photos
‘Holding Sway’ photo essays collect reflections on the ecology, history and politics of seaweed
View ArticleAn art museum with a defining collection of Southern California architecture...
An art museum with a defining collection of Southern California architecture & design
View ArticleDocumenting names crafted in public places with nails, tar, bark and...
His Written Names Fanzine is dedicated to documenting and transcribing occurrences of hyper-localized, unsanctioned public name writing. This summer, he released his 12th edition, featuring found names...
View ArticleArtist residency merges hands-on creativity and cutting-edge science
An artist residency hosted UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology culminates with an exhibit during 1st Thursday.
View ArticleMaking change, and creating justice, through art
Photographer and professor Richard Ross publishes a new book based on his experiences documenting America's juvenile justice system
View Article‘Love and care outside normativity’ — a new art show immerses viewers in...
Curated by art history graduate students Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney, a new exhibition at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum reimagines spaces such as discos, dive bars, living rooms and...
View ArticleTake a friend to an artist’s studio
Influenced by craft and materials, queer culture and the midwest DIY music scene, MFA student Lyra Purugganan explores friendship and close relations in her interdisciplinary studio practice.
View ArticleModernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current
“Arahuete stands out as perhaps the sole living female architect in the world who is still practicing according to the organic principles introduced by Louis Sullivan over a century ago,” said Silvia...
View ArticleThe beauty of thinking differently, reflected in art
The Koegel Autism Center will host “Unmasking Through Art,” a neurodivergent-curated exhibition, on Dec. 7
View ArticleThe exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
“War, inequality and injustice shaped 20th century performance art,” explained curator and Professor Ninotchka Bennahum. “The exhibition rests on the idea that the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the...
View ArticleArt show ‘A Box of One’s Own’ refashions Woolf’s ‘room’ in small symbols of...
The Art, Design & Architecture exhibition explores how the cross-cultural project Women Beyond Borders contributes to a greater understanding of women’s lives and cultures through art.
View ArticleArt installation examines Vietnamese refugee history
At O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5, UCSB art lecturer Hương Ngô and UNC Chapel Hill art professor Hồng-n Trương reimagine concepts of citizenship and safe passage in a new commissioned...
View ArticleArchive of multicultural modernist architect Steven Ehrlich adds to UCSB art...
The acquisition underscores the ADC’s status as a premier resource for the study of the built environment in Southern California from the late 19th century to the present day.
View ArticleEdible Insect Art Show displays culinary diversity & sustainability
The multimedia exhibition aims to bring together the community to celebrate insects as a component of cultural cuisines and raise awareness about their potential as a climate solution. A culminating...
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