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Where do trees get their water? How does climate change reshape forests? UC Santa Barbara professor Naomi Tague and artist Ethan Turpin explore these questions ...
“Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language” at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum explores how artists use text to challenge perception, critique culture, and reflect ...
The Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents “A Tale of Sea Wanderers,” the largest collection of Tomiyama’s work outside Asia. Born in 1921 in Kobe ...
Santa Barbara’s Off Register art book and print fair, co-organized by UCSB professor Alex Lukas, debuts Nov. 16, featuring artists, unique prints, and interactive exhibits.
Her latest exhibition, “Hương Ngô: Core Memory” (Sept. 27–Jan. 26, 2025), presented by Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) and The Riviera Beach House, ...
In Rome, Schooler will present alongside research colleague Madeline Gross, assistant project scientist at UCSB. Together, they are investigating how art can induce a state ...
Jane Callister’s project, which she began two years ago with a Faculty Research Grant, dives into film history and blends it with surreal imagery.
George Legrady, media art & technology professor, featured in Getty’s PST Art + Science Collide
Rosalena, an assistant professor of computational craft in UCSB’s Department of Art, researches and creates using machine learning, digital fabrication, ceramics, beading and weaving.
The exhibition situates Puccinelli’s career within the constellation of his local and regional contemporaries including Dane Gooman, Hugh Margerum, Hilary Brace, Joan Tanner, Richard Ross ...