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Dear Art Department Community, We are excited to a Dear Art Department Community,
We are excited to announce the next event in our Fall 2026 Arts Colloquium is a presentation by this week’s colloquium speakers Tanya Zimbardo and Jenni Sorkin.

WHO: Curator Tanya Zimbardo and Art Historian Jenni Sorkin.
WHEN: Thursday at 5pm
WHERE: ILP Room 1101

Tanya Zimbardo is a San Francisco-based curator and writer. She curated Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 for the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and co-edited the accompanying catalogue. This career-spanning survey of the late environmental artist is on view this fall at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Zimbardo is currently working on Wandering: Fifty Years of Work by Lewis deSoto (2027) for UCR ARTS, Riverside, and Material Frequencies (2027), Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University in Oakland, as part of the inaugural Further Triennial. 

Jenni Sorkin writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. Her recent is Art in California (2021), written for Thames & Hudson’s acclaimed World of Art series. She currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Modern Craft, and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Art Journal and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (2014-15), the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (2012), the Getty Research Institute (2010-11), and the ACLS/Luce Fellowship in American Art (2008). Sorkin is a Professor and Department Chair in the History of Art & Architecture at UCSB.
Dear Art Department Community, We are honored to a Dear Art Department Community,
We are honored to announce for the Robert Thomas Distinguished Artist-Sculptor Lecture this week is colloquium speaker, Alison Saar. @alison_saar 

WHO: Alison Saar
WHEN: Thursday, October 8th, 5:00pm.
WHERE: ILP 1101

Biography excerpted from the Smithsonian American Art Museum & Renwick Gallery: 

“Alison Saar’s sculptures and installations are rooted in her interests in materiality and histories of art, religion, and spirituality from a global range of communities, including the African diaspora and Indigenous peoples, among others. 

Saar was raised by the accomplished artists Betye and Richard Saar, whose distinct careers shaped her artistic development….In 1981, she received her MFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, carving her first wooden figurative sculptures for her thesis. A year later, Saar moved to New York City and began the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist in Residence program in 1983. There, Saar constructed larger-than-life sculptures of women and men from salvaged tin ceiling tiles and wood. In 1991, Saar began bronze-casting public artworks, creating figurative statues that responded to their sites through layered cultural and historical references...This mode culminated in Rouse (2012, SAAM), made when her daughter left for college...In the years following President Barack Obama’s election, she continued to probe racism through works that recast historical Black literary characters from racial stereotypes to autonomous subjects, such as in Reapers (2021, SAAM)”.

(Authored by Gabriella Shypula, American Women’s History Initiative Writer and Editor, 2024.)

This lecture was made possible by a generous donation from the Robert C. Thomas Memorial Fund.
Dear Art Department Community, Please join us: WH Dear Art Department Community,
Please join us:

WHEN: Thursday at 5pm 
WHERE: ILP (room 1101) 

For a presentation by this week’s colloquium speaker Matt Stahl.

Matt Stahl is the curator of Gaucho Spirit: Stories of UCSB Athletics & Community in the UCSB Library Special Research Collections, open August 08, 2026 to July 7th, 2027.

On a Tuesday morning in September 1934, Coach “Spud” Harder stood before the student body to announce a “New Deal” for athletics, rallying the campus around the bold new emblem: “El Gaucho.” To spread the word, he introduced a football schedule tire cover similar to the one displayed below to publicize Santa Barbara State College across the region.

Generations of devoted students, staff, and local fans, including legendary superfan Phil Womble, have sustained the Gaucho spirit. It reached an ecstatic peak in 2006 when the Men’s Soccer team clinched the NCAA Championship, prompting euphoric fans to carry the Harder Stadium goalposts all the way to the Pacific Ocean. From the historic 2004 Women’s Basketball Sweet Sixteen run to the stellar individual careers of athletes like all-time leading scorer Orlando Johnson, UCSB sports have always been about more than points on a scoreboard. Today, UCSB Athletics remains deeply embedded in the local community through vital youth outreach, such as the softball program’s partnership with the Goleta Valley Girls Softball Association.

Collectively, every team, fan, and era helps foster an enduring Gaucho spirit.

Jackie Caballeros, Student Intern, helped curate this exhibition. It features materials from the newly accessioned Intercollegiate Athletics Department Collection.

Matt Stahl has served as the University Archivist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 2017.  He holds a Masters in History and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Maryland.  Prior to joining UCSB, he served as the Committee Archivist for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation from 2013-2017.
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