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Please join us on Thursday, November 20th at 5pm i Please join us on Thursday, November 20th at 5pm in Embarcadero Hall to see Artist John Millei discuss his work as part of the Fall 2025 Artist Lecture Series.

John Millei (b. 1958) is a painter based in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States and internationally, with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Madrid, Texas, Milan, Thailand, and Mexico. In addition to these solo presentations, he has also participated in several major international group exhibitions. Alongside his studio practice, Millei has held faculty positions at Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he also served as a thesis advisor.
Dear Art Department Community, We invite you to co Dear Art Department Community,
We invite you to collaborate with us on the Hidden Garden Project, which will take place on December 5 in the UCSB Garden and Greenhouse (GHGP). This outdoor space offers an alternative site for showcasing your work—an opportunity to present your pieces in dialogue with the garden, nature and the public.

Please submit your proposal, idea, or artwork by November 28, based on the guidelines provided in the Google Form (link in bio).

This project is presented in collaboration with the UCSB Art Department, the UCSB Greenhouse & Garden, the GSA UC Santa barbara, and the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration (CCBER).
Edit: today’s lecture is canceled, we will resch Edit: today’s lecture is canceled, we will reschedule it sometime soon! (If you are in 1C we will show a different lecture).
Please join us TOMORROW—Thursday, November 13th—at 5pm in Embarcadero Hall to see Ross Simonini discuss his work as part of the Fall 2025 Artist Lecture Series.

Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician. 
He has held solo presentations of his work at the Sharjah Biennial (UAE), Francois Ghebaly (NYC), anonymous gallery (NYC), Et Al (SF), SHRINE (LA), suns.works (Zurich), Shoot the Lobster (LU), and Human Resources (LA). 
	His novel, The Book of Formation (2018, Melville House) chronicles the rise of a fictional philosophical movement. He served as the interviews editor at The Believer from 2007 — 2020, where he is now a contributing editor. His essays and dialogues appear in the New York Times, The Paris Review, and many monographs. He has created podcasts for ArtReview, SFMOMA, and KCRW.
	He releases music under his own name and has previously released music as a member of the bands, NewVillager and Trespassers William. He has performed at Performa, Andy Warhol Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.
	As an adjunct professor, he has taught seminars on experimental process, writing, art, sound, and dialogue at Columbia University, CCA, Stanford, and UCLA. He ran ALICIA, a gallery & performance space on his property in Altadena.
	“Ross Simonini’s artistic project hinges on a kind of generosity—open, plural considerations of connection, meaning, and form. Simonini is a painter, musician, author and multi-hyphenate wordsmith. Over the past two decades, he’s produced a singular oeuvre, one dedicated to the crossing and recrossing of boundaries of medium (anywhere from a roman à clef novel to site-specific performances to studio LPs) in the pursuit of an unmistakable personal poetics.” —Wes Hardin (director, Francois Ghebaly)
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