Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Art, design, architecture museum in Santa Barbara, California
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The Art, Design and Architecture Museum[1] (branded as AD&A Museum) is a museum within the University of California, Santa Barbara, located in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.[2]
Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB | |
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| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California |
| Coordinates | 34.4120°N 119.8488°W |
| Type | Art, design, architecture museum |
| Website | museum.ucsb.edu |
Built in 1959, the museum was originally a gallery for art education at UC Santa Barbara.[3] Faculty member and architectural historian David Gebhard served as its director for twenty years.[4] Today the AD&A contains a fine art collection of over 8,500 original works.
Collection
Other than the original works, the AD&A also possesses over 1,000,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection.[3]
The museum's digital collections were enhanced with online exhibitions during the COVID-19 crisis so that audiences could continue to enjoy its resources while quarantine was in place.[5]
Notable Recent Artists and Exhibitions
Exhibitions during the 2010s
- Amy Cutler - contemporary American painter and illustrator (Jul 14 - Sep 16, 2012)[6][7]
- Francisco Goya - Spanish romantic painter and printmaker (Sep 13 - Dec 22, 2013)
- Andy Warhol - American photographer and filmmaker (Feb 16 - May 12, 2013)[8]
- Michael Westmore - American film industry makeup artist (Jan 14 - April 30, 2017)
- Chiura Obata - Japanese American painter and teacher (Jan 13 - Apr 29, 2018)[9]
- Firooz Zahedi - Iranian American photographer (Jul 14 - Sep 2, 2018)
- Ja’Tovia Gary - American filmmaker (Jul 14 - Sep 2, 2018)
- Julius Shulman - American architectural photographer (Jan 12 - Apr 28, 2019)
- John Sonsini - American oil painter (Jan 12 - Apr 28, 2019)[10]
- Carl Jung - Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist (Jan 12 - Apr 28, 2019)[11]
- Lee Mullican - American painter, curator, and art teacher (Jul 13 - Sep 1, 2019)
- Ila Bêka - contemporary Italian artist, filmmaker and producer (Sep 28 - Dec 8, 2019)
- Louise Lemoine - French video artist and filmmaker (Sep 28 - Dec 8, 2019)
- J.R. Davidson - American architect (Sep 28 - Dec 8, 2019)
Exhibitions during the 2020s
- Harmonia Rosales - Cuban-Jamaican-Jewish American painter (Jan 19 - May 1, 2022)[12][13][14]
- Ishi Glinksy - Tohono O’odham and German artist of Indigenous craft and contemporary art (Sep 1, 2022 - Jan 22, 2023)[15]
- Keith Puccinelli - American artist of drawing, sculpture, and interactive installation (Sep 7 - Dec 16, 2024)[16][17]
- Tomiyama Taeko - Japanese visual artist and writer (Jan 18 - Apr 28, 2025)[18]
- Jackie Amézquita - Guatemalan-American performance artist (Aug 26 - Nov 29, 2026)
- Bonnie Ora Sherk - American landscape-space, performance artist, and educator (Aug 26 - Nov 29, 2026)
- Tiffany Chung - Vietnamese American contemporary cartography and installation artist (Jan 17 - Apr 26, 2026)[19]
