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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bronze-casting public artworks, creating figurative statues that responded to their sites through layered cultural and historical references...This mode culminated in Rouse (2012, SAAM), made when her daughter left for college...In the years following President Barack Obama’s election, she continued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.
We are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty memb We are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty member, Young Joon Kwak!

Please join us on Thursday September 24th at 5pm in Room 1101 in the Interactive Learning Pavilion (ILP) to see Young Joon discuss their work as part of the Fall 2026 Artist Lecture Series. This lecture is free and open to the public. 

That is ILP 1101, not Embarcadero Hall!

Young Joon Kwak (they/she) is a Los Angeles–based artist working across sculpture, performance, and collective action. Kwak’s work begins with touch, intimacy, and collaboration, asking how bodies and the relations between them can become materially and publicly present without being reduced to fixed images or identities.
Through a process they call invert-casting, Kwak turns the negative impressions left by bodies—the pressure, folds, gaps, and traces of contact—into sculptures rather than replicas of the body itself. Glitter, mirrored glass, metal, resin, and iridescent surfaces make these traces shimmer, fragment, and shift with the viewer’s position, keeping recognition unstable.

Kwak’s work has been included in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Made in L.A. 2023, and BAMPFA’s MATRIX program, with recent exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Esther Schipper, Seoul, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. They founded the collective Mutant Salon and perform in the electronic dance-noise diva band Xina Xurner. Their work is held in the collections of LACMA, BAMPFA, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, MSU Broad Art Museum, and other institutions.

- Portrait Photo by Joe Pugliese.

- Second slide: Young Joon Kwak, Divine Dance of Soft Revolt (Anna, Travis, Me), 2024. Installation view in Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 8–August 23, 2026. Photograph by Ron Amstutz.
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