Museum lessons and crafts for kids: Dutch Still Life Painting

June 15, 2020 by adamuseum

While some public spaces are reopening, many of us are still looking for ways to entertain and teach our kids at home. The Education Outreach Interns at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB, have designed five lessons and crafts that you can share with your aspiring artists and historians at home! In this lesson, Savannah Barnhart introduces the concept of still life paintings popularized in the Dutch region of Europe during the 17th century. After discussing what Dutch still-life […]

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AD&A Museum in Space Exhibition

June 5, 2020 by adamuseum

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum asked young artists to use their creative skills to answer these questions: What would it be like to live on a different planet? What kinds of people or creatures would live there? What would they do for fun or for work? Now we get to show off your awesome submissions! Sophia’s description: “On Planet Rainbow they like to garden. It is a very sunny planet with rainbow mountains and purple water. The creatures on […]

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Sub Rosa: Behind the Scenes at the Museum

May 28, 2020 by adamuseum

By Susan Lucke, Registrar & Collections Manager at the AD&A Museum Uploaded May 28th, 2020 In the Summer of 2016, the AD&A Museum presented Sub Rosa: Behind the Scenes at the Museum. This was the collective brainchild of the Museum staff and proved to be one of our most successful endeavors. We explored the concerns that we wrestle with every day in our individual professional roles and in the course of our joint efforts to uphold our mission of education, […]

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Behind the Scenes with Susan Lucke: Transporting Noah’s Ark

May 1, 2020 by adamuseum

  As the Collections Manager & Registrar for the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, I am tasked with shipping valuable art objects in and out of the museum. Usually, it is a pretty standard process. But in the Fall of 2018, curatorial staff wanted to include the multimedia sculpture, Noah and his Ark in Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community opening in January of 2019. Created by Karon Davis, this complicated work helps to illustrate […]

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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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