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Ph.D. student Letícia Cobra Lima created the recent exhibit at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, “A Box of One’s Own: Women Beyond Borders.” Through intricately decorated boxes, women express what womanhood means to them. Lima’s recent workshop 'Bring Your Own Box' invited the UCSB community to actively participate. Inspired by Virginia Woolf, this exhibit explores the use of artistic freedom and empowerment through the creation of these small, meaningful boxes.
UCSB Theater and Dance professor Ninotchka Bennahum and Bruce Robertson, emeritus professor in History of Art and Architecture, conceived the exhibit Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955. The exhibit examines how artists of color and indigenous artists had a deep impact on dance as an art form. It is running concurrently at UCSB’s Art and Architecture Museum and the New York Public Library.
This fall, UCSB’s Art Design and Architecture Museum is displaying work by Helena Arahuete, an artist and architect who aims to create work that collaborates with its surrounding environment and align with nature. The museum is free, and open to students and community members at UC Santa Barbara.
A Woman, Life ,Freedom art projection was displayed on campus earlier this week in solidarity with the struggle for women’s equality in Iran. Shiva Balaghi, a cultural historian and academic coordinator of the UCSB Area Global Initiative, collaborated with her colleagues at two nonprofit organizations, Mozaik and ArtRise Collective, to create the public art project.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum celebrated 60 years of its Architecture and Design Collection with a talk from the exhibits curator Silvia Perea. Perea walked guests through a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the hundreds of archives, as well as introduced visitors to an eclectic exhibition, Genius Loci: Domesticity and Identity in Southern California which will be up until early May.
The Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara has multiple art exhibitions on display year-round. Currently, it is showing a collection of instruments used for gagaku, an ancient Japanese style of orchestral music and dance.
Located near UC Santa Barbara’s signature monument Storke Tower, the university’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum has reopened its doors to the public after 19 months of pandemic, welcoming Gabriel Ritter as its new director.
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum is pleased to welcome Dr. Gabriel Ritter as the AD&A Museum’s new Director.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum has responded to its COVID-19 imposed closure by creating digital portals for the public to be able to tour exhibits and collections. Read more about it here, along with an invitation by acting directly Silvia Perea to engage with the museum via feedback comments.
Fabio Rambelli, the chair of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara, organized a series of workshops exploring the music, dance, costumes, and history of Gagaku, the music and dance of the Japanese Imperial Court. The workshops, held last week, were led by the Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble, a small group of renowned musicians from Japan.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a political art installation that memorializes 3,200 migrants who died in their attempts to cross the Sonoran Desert at the Arizona-Mexico border. It has had a meaningful impact on the UCSB students who have participated in it since it opened in January at UCSB’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum.
On Thursday evening, UCSB alumnus and artist John Nava returned to his alma mater to discuss his creative evolution with students, staff, and community members at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. Nava channels his fascination with the fine details of the human figure into his work and credits his UCSB art education as the catalyst that led him to discover his artistic voice.
“Collecting is very expensive but it’s money well spent,” said UC Santa Barbara alum Tomás Sanchez at the walkthrough of his collection, ¡Chicanismo! Sanchez’s collection will be on display until December 8 at UCSB’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum in honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Chicano/a Studies Department.
Prints! The Joan and Stuart Levin Collection showcases contemporary works on paper and printmaking from the 1960s, from artists like Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns who were revolutionary in this form of artistic expression. Sarah Banes, a UCSB PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture, discusses her experience with curating this exhibition in an interview with Writing student Vanessa Tang .
“Museums need to cater to all people,” says Selections from the Permanent Collection at UCSB’s Art Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A) collections manager Susan Lucke.
Approaching its Dec. 2 close, this show makes for a perfect opportunity to learn about art history and how the value of art differs based on the context in which it is shown. It displays art from all reaches of the fine arts collection normally held underground in the archives at UC Santa Barbara. Of the roughly 900 items usually held in storage, the exhibition shows us pieces ranging from Belgian Congo headdresses to modern abstract paintings by UC Santa Barbara alum Richard Serra. This juxtaposition of art across different places and time periods allows visitors to see a Pre-Colombian era sculpture and a still-life painting by Northern Europe’s Cornelis Mahu in the same room.
UCSB constructed the AD&A Museum in 1959 for its art education department and now it is a fully independent gallery free to anyone who wishes to visit. The small size of the museum allows for a warm, personal ambience that can be difficult to find in the larger, more popular exhibition halls of major cities. The type of art shown in the galleries varies from photography to paintings to sculpture and even video.
