Exhibitions conclude PST with free admission

Nineteen Southern California cultural institutions, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, will bid farewell to Pacific Standard Time with free admission on Saturday, March 31. (Note: The AD&A Museum at UCSB, included on the list, always offers free admission.) Click here for a flyer with links to all participating exhibitions.

Santa Barbara in the New York Times

Last week Santa Barbara was featured in the NY Times “36 Hours” series.  Not really image news, but kind of fun!

 

UCSB Art History Association event on Oct. 19

This Wednesday, History of Art and Architecture graduate students are hosting a panel discussion, sponsored by the Art History Association.  Panelists will discuss how to prepare and apply for graduate school, extra-curricular background and the graduate student experience.  The event will also feature a Question & Answer session.  Refreshments provided.

Questions?  Contact Emily Wing, AHA Co-President:
lauraewing at umail.ucsb.edu

When: Wednesday, October 19, 6pm
Where: Phelps 3526

UCSB Dept. of Art colloquium starts this week

The Department of Art’s Fall colloquium series begins September 27, with a talk by curator and critic Bruce Ferguson.

The full schedule with speaker bios is here.  The program is co-sponsored by Art and the College of Creative Studies, and this quarter has been organized by Dick Hebdige.

Pacific Standard Time – events and a timeline

Among the LA Times’ coverage of Pacific Standard Time is a timeline of significant events in California that put the 1945-80 period and its artistic output into perspective.

The PST’s own website lists events at the 60 participating venues, from Santa Barbara to San Diego.  The $10 million project will run for 6 months.

Save the Date: Museum Day, Saturday, September 24

Museum Day, an annual event sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, is fast approaching. On Saturday, September 24, hundreds of museums and other cultural venues nationwide open their doors to free admission — request the required ticket, good for the ticket holder and a guest, from the site. Local institutions participating in the event include Casa de la Guerra and Rancho La Patera & Stow House; to search for a specific venue, click here.

UCSB Digital Collections now online

A selection of the material from Davidson Library’s Special Collections is now available digitally.  Drawing from the rich holdings of audio recordings, photos, archives, scores, posters and more, the material is a valuable digital resource.  This launch site contains several thousand of the over 500,000 items in Special Collections, with plans to continue growing.

Some of the highlights are home movies of Lotte Lehman, photos from the Flying A movie studios, audio recordings made by the Center for the Democratic Institutions between 1958- 1987, and the John S. Kiewit Photography Collection.

Art History Association Meeting Feb. 8

UCSB’s Art History Association has organized a Museum Panel, featuring the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Anne Mersmann, Associate Registrar; Patsy Hicks, Director of Education; and Michelle Sullivan, Senior Curatorial Assistant.

When: Tuesday, February 8th, 5:30pm

Where: Phelps 3526.

SB Contemporary Arts Forum needs a home

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum would like you to temporarily donate your home for The Home Art, Revisited exhibition (May 21-July 17, 2011). This show reprises two previous CAF Home Shows (1988 and 1996) with ten Los Angeles-based artists creating site-specific installations in ten Santa Barbara area residences.

One house is still needed: a home with a pool installation or renovation planned for Spring 2011 (for a participating artist whose proposal includes a pool design). If you are interested in participating in this cutting-edge exhibition, being a part of the contemporary arts scene in Santa Barbara, and gaining a permanent work of art in your backyard, contact Karla at curator@sbcaf.org or 805-966-5373, x105

UCSB Grad symposium – Call for Papers

The graduate students in the department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB are holding their 36th Annual Symposium on April 29-30, 2011, devoted to the theme “Moralities in the Visual Arts.”  They invite proposals for papers on any aspect of this theme from graduate students and recent PhDs in all areas of scholarship.

Read the full description, and call for papers, here.

The keynote speaker will be Richard Dyer, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College, London, who has published widely on aspects of race and sexuality in film and popular culture and will share some of his ongoing research about serial killers.