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Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara Admission to the museum is always free.

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum has a distinguished Fine Art Collection of over 8,500 works and over 750,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection located in the heart of the UCSB Campus right next to Storke Tower.

04/21/2026

✨ Last chance to experience Tiffany Chung’s immersive installation Spheres of Time (2026).

📍 The AlloSphere Research Facility at UCSB (Elings Hall, 2621)
🗓️ Saturday, April 25
🕦 1:00-3:00pm
🎟️ Visit our website’s Events page to make a reservation (link in bio)
Spheres of Time is an immersive installation that traverses across traces of different landscapes over stretches of geological and generational time. Contemplating on earth’s deep time amid our social, political, economic and environmental processes, the work situates human civilizations as part of an expansive natural history. In doing so, it reminds us that the imprints of our past shape the future and that we are responsible for the care of creation and sustainable ecology, beyond human timespan.

The AlloSphere is a one-of-a-kind, three-story metal sphere, an immersive instrument intersecting science, engineering, and the arts created by Distinguished Professor, Scientist and Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin.

This site-specific installation is created by Chung () in collaboration with Isaac Hernández Campos (), Mario Norton, Alex Beaumier (), and Adam Kaleta; commissioned by the AD&A Museum and facilitated by Dr. Tim Wood of the AlloSphere Research Facility at UCSB, and the research team from the Media Arts & Technology (MAT) graduate program ().

Advance tickets are free and highly recommended for guaranteed entry. Guests who arrive without tickets may be unable to enter based on building capacity.

03/10/2026

✨ Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is the first comprehensive museum survey of Vietnamese American artist and UCSB Alumna Tiffany Chung ( ). This solo-show features 70 artworks created throughout the artist’s 25 year career.

💐 A special thank you to Dr. Orianna Cacchione, guest curator of this exhibition and Deputy Director at the University of Richmond Museums, for sharing your thoughts for this video.

🌏 Please come by the museum and experience these insightful and meticulous artworks for yourself!

📍 AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara
🗓️ January 17 - April 26
🕦 Open Wed-Sun 12 PM-5 PM
🎟️ Free admission

03/04/2026

✨ On the occasion of her first comprehensive museum survey show, please join Vietnamese American artist and UCSB Alumna Tiffany Chung for an intimate artist talk followed by a moderated Q&A session with AD&A Museum Director, Gabriel Ritter. Chung will discuss the overarching themes and evolution of her artistic practice over the past 25 years, as well as the process and inspiration behind her site-specific, immersive sound and video installation, Spheres of Time (2026), exclusively on view at UCSB’s AlloSphere.
📍 AD&A Museum, UC Sant Barbara
🗓️ Wednesday, March 4
🕦 5:00-6:30 PM
🎟️ Free admission
🅿️ Parking on Lot 22 or 3
✨ Tiffany Chung is an interdisciplinary artist globally recognized for her research-driven practice exploring the intersections of history, culture, and geography on both local and global scales. Working across diverse media—including cartography, embroidery, painting, photography, sculpture, video, text, and music—her projects trace shifts in cultural, geopolitical, and natural landscapes shaped by the upheavals of war, displacement, disaster, and global trade.
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08/21/2025

SAVE THE DATE! 
On Saturday, September 13, 2025, the AD&A Museum will open three groundbreaking permanent collection exhibitions: Beyond the Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection, and ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS: Big Bang Beat LA.

🗓️Saturday, September 13, 2025
🕔5:30-7:30pm
📍Art, Design & Architecture Museum

🆓Free admission and open to all.
🌮Light refreshments will be served. 
🔗Learn more via the link in bio!
 Beyond the Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection brings together a range of artworks from the AD&A Museum’s holdings that engage with our lived environment beyond its constructed reality. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, this exhibition highlights recent acquisitions and gifts primarily from the past five years, demonstrating the Museum’s commitment to expanding its modern and contemporary art collection.

Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection celebrates the gift of sixty-one Mexican prints from local collectors Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia to the AD&A Museum. Focusing on lithographs, etchings, and linocuts from the 1920s to the 1980s, the Garcia-Correa Collection of Mexican Prints highlights the importance of the graphic arts in Mexico. This mid-century collection of prints thematically focuses on labor, gender, and domesticity, all key aspects of campesino culture and its farming community that have informed the lives of the collectors.

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS: Big Bang Beat LA. focuses on the experimental work of Environmental Communications (EC), a collective of architects, artists, and sociologists based in Venice Beach, CA. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, EC championed an expanded understanding of architecture—one that encompassed not just individual structures, but the totality of the built environment. The group documented defining traits of the then booming consumerist society and the city’s vibrant counterculture pushing back against it, primarily through photographic slide presentations.

01/13/2025

Please join us for the opening reception of our winter 2025 exhibitions, “Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language” (guest curated by Alex Lukas ) and “Tomiyama Taeko: A Tale of Sea Wanderers.”

Saturday, January 18
5:30 - 7:30pm
AD&A Museum

Music provided by Santa Barbara’s own DJ Darla Bea . Light refreshments will be served. Free admission.

Spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, and more, Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language brings together more than twenty artists rooted in the state who play with the boundary between language and image as a central component of their visual practice. The exhibition includes newly commissioned works by Rose D’Amato, Christine Sun Kim, and Kate Laster, among others.

Drawing on a rich vocabulary of images and techniques, artist Tomiyama Taeko (1921-2021) has addressed issues around gender, imperialism, war responsibility, and environmental destruction through an unflinching feminist and activist lens throughout her career. This exhibition presents the US debut of the series Hiruko and the Puppeteers: A Tale of Sea Wanderers consisting of oil paintings and collages produced in 2008.

We look forward to welcoming you back to campus, and hope to see you Saturday night.

09/28/2024

Please join us Wednesday, October 2 at 4:00pm for a drawing workshop with artist Eric Beltz at the AD&A Museum held in conjunction with our current exhibition, POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Sketching was foundational to Keith Puccinelli’s artwork–he drew in hundreds of sketchbooks, he drew on multiple pieces of paper to create large-scale works, he even drew in bed. This workshop is both a mimesis and celebration of Keith’s drawings and spirit by looking closely at and learning lessons (or not) from his varied drawing techniques.

AD&A Museum
Wednesday, October 2 at 4:00pm
Free Admission

Artist Bio:

Eric Beltz lives and works in the Santa Ynez Valley and teaches the art of drawing at UCSB.

Beltz’s meticulously-crafted, time-encompassing graphite on Bristol drawings explore vast spaces and an eclectic mix of content. Inspired by Colonial American myths, cross-stitch sampler patterns, apocryphal gospels, psychedelic culture, ethnobotany, poetry, astronomy, and other interests, Beltz carefully constructs images meant to carry the viewer away within an experiential moment while still be able to sort through free-floating narratives; creating the condition so that the viewer can feel as well as read the drawings. Beltz says of his work: “I don’t want my small drawings to look small, I want the viewer to feel immense”. Endlessly challenged by the limits of graphite on paper, Beltz seeks to transcend the historical biases against the medium through subtlety and profundity, a dedication to technique, and a faith in the infinite potential of a humble medium.

He has shown extensively across the country in both solo and group shows. His work has been featured in the LA Times, NY Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Flaunt, Drawing magazine, and others. His work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, and many prominent private collections.

Image credit:
Eric Beltz
The Day The Moon And Stars Fell To Earth, 2024
21” x 20”
Graphite on Bristol

09/24/2024

Join us at The Hub on October 17 for a conversation with Sidney Williams, Susan Secoy, and Leo Marmol as they discuss how grassroots organizations have elevated the architectural identity of California desert cities through preservation and adaptive reuse.

The discussion will be moderated by architect Ellen Bildsten.

Drinks and light bites will be served.

To RSVP, please follow the link in our bio

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Sunday	12pm - 5pm

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http://www.museum.ucsb.edu/

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