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  • About
  • Info
    • 🔹 Giving Opportunities 🔹
    • Artists Resources
    • Contact Information
    • Department Forms
    • Diversity Statement
    • Intellectual Challenge Policy
    • News and Events
    • Schedules
  • MFA
    • MFA Program Information
    • Prospective Graduate Students
      • Application Procedures
      • FAQ
      • Academic Resources
      • Graduate Requirements
      • Post Grad & Professionalism
      • Program Statistics
      • Research & Creative Practice
    • Current Graduate Students
      • FAQ
      • Academic Resources
      • Graduate Handbook
      • TA Handbook
      • MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog
  • BA
    • Two ways to major in Art
    • Prospective Students
      • FAQ
      • Major Requirements
      • Undergraduate Courses
      • Undergraduate Major Packet
    • Current Students
      • FAQ
      • Undergraduate Courses
      • Honors Program
      • Letters of Recommendation
  • People
    • Contact Information
    • Faculty
    • Graduates 2026
    • Graduates 2027
    • Honors 2026
    • MFA Alumni
    • Staff
  • Facilities

    • 3D Digital Fabrication Lab
    • Atrium
    • Drawing Lab
    • eStudio
    • Foundation Studio
    • Foundry
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    • Glass Box Gallery
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Today is GIVE DAY at UCSB! We’re calling on our in Today is GIVE DAY at UCSB! We’re calling on our incredible network of alumni, parents and art lovers to support the Department of Art and help us provide the specialized resources that make our program world-class. From Art lab upkeep to essential materials, your gift empowers our students to speak their truth through their work. 

Every unique donation counts, and if we get the most unique donations in the Humanities & Fine Arts Division, we will win additional prize money!—Anything helps, please consider donating 10$ if Art at UCSB has meant something to you. link to donate in our bio! 

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Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to a Dear Art Department Community,
We are pleased to announce that this week’s talk in our Spring 2026 Arts Colloquium is Hector Dionicio Mendoza. @hector_dionicio_mendoza 

Hector Dionicio Mendoza grew up with a great appreciation for the importance of faith, ritual, and alternative healing traditions as practiced by his grandfather, a fifth-generation curandero (shaman) of Afro-Caribeño lineage whose ancestors migrated to Michoacan via Cuba. He practiced a hybrid form of Yoruba-Purépecha comprised of traditional religious and spiritual concepts of Catholicism with African curanderismo and ethnobotany, as well as the pre-conquest polytheistic animistic rites and customs of the indigenous Purépecha people which are rooted in the reverence of ancestors and spirits in nature. This ancestral matrice forms the foundation for Mendoza’s ambitious and expansive multimedia practice, with it’s surprising explorations and unconventional use of natural, organic, synthetic and recycled materials, and explores themes of migration and the environment as well as the geographies of place, memory, identity, and the visualization of immigrant stories.

Please join us in the ILP 2101 at 5:00pm.
Open to the public.
Give Day is this Thursday! 🎨 On April 9th, join th Give Day is this Thursday! 🎨 On April 9th, join the entire Gaucho community for a 36-hour sprint to support the next generation of artists and creators. Your donations to the Department of Art directly fund the studio resources, exhibitions, and specialized materials that bring our students' visions to life. Every gift—no matter the size—amplifies a student’s voice. Click the link in our bio to make your impact! 🔗✨ #UCSBGiveDay #UCSBArt
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