News and Events

First-year MFA Lucy Holtsnider to present work at the annual meeting of the American Geophysicists’ Union on Friday, December 16 in San Francisco, CA

The American Geophysicists’ Union Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists in the world. I will be presenting a poster describing my climate change communication project Climate Odyssey alongside my collaborator, hydrologist Zion Klos, at this year’s AGU conference in San...

Graduate Matthew Usinowicz opens exhibition in Australia; Teams up with graduate Matt Allison for LA Exhibition

The Fireman. 2016. Mixed media. 16 X 12 X 4 inches.   The Block Is Hot. Exhibition at SEVENTH Gallery Melbourne, AUS. On view until Oct. 14th This body of work began with the formal and conceptual exploration of a simple mundane object – a...

The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald with Professor Kip Fulbeck

Please see: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/movies/spock-half-vulcan-half-human-all-outsider-role-model.html?_r=1 https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/banned-body-art-preserves-ancient-tradition-20160919-grjjyt.html  

First-year MFA student Jennifer Lugris has been selected to be a GAP scholar by the IHC

In conjunction with this year’s IHC public programming series Community Matters, the 2016-17 IHC Graduate Affiliates Program seeks four graduate students to participate in a pedagogical project in social justice.  Working with the IHC Director, Graduate Affiliates will design and offer a ten-week correspondence course in the humanities for inmates of North...

LA Exhibition ‘Open House/Expanded Flat’ with multiple MFA alum opens 8/27

Open House/ Expanded Flat • 8/27/16 12-5pm 1206 S. Maple Ave #502A Los Angeles, CA 90015 Sea Farm City invites you to Open House/ Expanded Flat at our headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, August 27, 2016 from 12-5pm. Featuring sculpture, editions, artists books,...

Graduate student Alison Ho in California exhibit, ‘Transformation: 25 Years of Asian American Women Artists’

VENUE Harrington Gallery at the Firehouse Arts Center, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton, CA EXHIBITION DATES July 30 – September 3 Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 12-5pm.  Saturday 11am-3pm. OPENING RECEPTION July 30, 1-3pm. Join us for an afternoon of light refreshments as we celebrate the last event of AAWAA’s...

Check out graduate student Tom Pazderka’s published articles on dandelionjournal.org

Please see: https://dandelionjournal.org/index.php/dandelion/issue/current/showToc

Artist’s talk: Stephanie Washburn

Wed, June 29, 2016 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at MCA Santa Barbara Stephanie Washburn lives in Ojai and teaches at UC Santa Barbara. Recent exhibitions include Greene Exhibitions, ACME Gallery, Claremont University and the Fellows of Contemporary Art. Her work has been reviewed in...

Patrick Gilbert – MFA 15′ and CCS fellow launches online exhibition with Epicenter Projects – San Andreas Fault-based residency

Epicenter Projects is pleased to announce our latest installment of online exhibitions: Patrick Gilbert Divided Settlements – curated by Cristopher Cichocki. The Santa Barbara-based artist had guerilla-sculpted a series of large-scale living tumbleweeds into minimalist cubes during his residency with Epicenter Projects. Each tumbleweed sculpture was produced inside a specific parcel of undeveloped desert...

CCS and Art Honors alumna Ander Mikalson is performing at The Kitchen, NYC, with Carey Denniston, Karen Bernard, Ben Van Buren and Niall Jones May 6th & 7th

Please see link: https://thekitchen.org/event/dance-and-process-bernard-van-buren-jones-denniston-mikalson, https://andermikalson.com/