impactmania’s Women of Impact Program is Awarded the U.S. Embassy Public Diplomacy Grant

September 19, 2019 by adamuseum

impactmania’s Women of Impact program consists of 200+ original in-depth interviews with women in 30+ countries, conversations in communities, and an internship at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The Women of Impact program enjoyed a successful launch at UCSB (July 2018) where hundreds of people gathered to hear from 30+ women from the network who traveled to California from 8 U.S. cities and 5 continents. “We are delighted to know that the Women of […]

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Eunice Foote to UCSB: A Story of Women, Science, and Climate Change

September 11, 2019 by adamuseum

AD&A Museum’s Communications and Programs Assitant, Emily Corb, has had the opportunity to assist Alex Regan and John Perlin with the curation and research of an upcoming UCSB Library exhibition titled Eunice Foote to UCSB: A Story of Women, Science, and Climate Change. Eunice Foote was an early American feminist, inventor, and ground-breaking scientist. Foote’s insights serve as a cornerstone of understanding the greenhouse effect, and her feminist activism created the momentum for changes in the civil, social, and political […]

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DRAWINGS: In the Digital Age – Experiencing Architecture and Music Through STEM

August 22, 2019 by adamuseum

Lead by Media Arts and Technology (MAT) P.h.D. student Yin Yu, “Digital Age: Experiencing Music and Architecture Through STEM” is a pre-college Summer program (SERA) that encourages high school students to blend science and art. The goal, as Yu stated in a 2019 Article of The Bottom Line, is to open up the minds of students to new design and problem solving strategies through interdisciplinary approaches, particularly focusing on areas such as architecture, music, and engineering. On July 16, 2019, Yu […]

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Vanessa Thompson Interviewed by Impactmania-Museum Intern, Marirose Meyer

March 15, 2018 by adamuseum

Vanessa Thompson is a young Hispanic female, pursuing her career as a Civil Engineer at ARUP which is a global design and consulting firm. ARUP is known for very famous landmarks throughout the world such as the Sydney Opera House. Vanessa works in a male dominant industry and is one of the youngest to be invited by Los Angeles County Commission for Women (LACCW) to become one of their committee members. LACCW’s mission statement is “…to represent the interest and concerns of women […]

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Schoolhouse and the Bus

March 6, 2018 by adamuseum

Graduate students, Jing Cao and Leticia Cobra Lima, recently wrote an article on Pablo Helguera and Suzanne Lacy’s Schoolhouse and the Bus, an exhibition featured at UC Santa Barbara’s AD&A Museum. Their article was recently published in Art Practical. Here’s an excerpt of their piece:   “The Schoolhouse and the Bus: Mobility, Pedagogy, and Engagement, an exhibition formerly at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and opening February 9 at the Rubin Foundation’s The 8th […]

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Music and Art

February 27, 2018 by adamuseum

Music can affect us in so many ways. For example, background music in movies can make a scene touching, poignant, suspenseful, or humorous. Music can also affect how we perceive art. Looking at art is an emotional experience, much like listening to music. When viewing an artwork, each person will feel different things, recall different memories, and pull on different life experiences to “read” a piece.  What if we combined the two emotional instigators, music and art? Maybe they could […]

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Deaccessioning art in a Museum

February 27, 2018 by adamuseum

When it comes to a museum’s permanent collection, one may instinctually believe that adding to it is the main goal. Bigger is better… right? If that is so, why are museums around the world working to deaccession their stores? To deaccession an artwork is to permanently remove a piece from a museum. The justification is up to the curator to decide, but reasons can range from the fact that the work may simply no longer fit in the permanent collection […]

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What to do when the museum is closed, AKA look at some of the sculptures found on the UCSB campus

February 27, 2018 by adamuseum

The public works of art can be viewed year round. We will be exploring four of the sculptures found in the immediate vicinity of the museum. To the right of the entrance to the museum is a sculpture by Fletcher Benton entitled Folded Circle T and Arc. Benton was originally trained as a painter and worked as a commercial sign painter for a number of years. He made the transition into sculpture after abandoning painting as a medium. This sculpture […]

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Cultural Parallelism Through Art and Traditions

February 27, 2018 by adamuseum

Sacred Art in the Age of Contact: Chumash and Latin American Traditions in Santa Barbara reveals a great deal about the cultural practices of the Spanish and Chumash during the mission period. Colonization of the Chumash by the Spanish largely impacted Chumash cultural practices. Colonization also affected many other indigenous cultures. While walking through the exhibit and learning about the practices and sacred objects of the Chumash, I found myself feeling more connected to the exhibit than I had imagined. […]

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