Category: AD&A Museum
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Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra
A Discussion with Jackie Amézquita and UCSB Faculty November 2, 11am, AD&A Museum A roundtable discussion with Amézquita and UCSB faculty Omar Pimienta, Priscilla Ybarra, and Alicia Boswell, about Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) and Amézquita’s activation of the exhibit on Nov 1st. Discussion will take place within the exhibit at the AD&A Museum.…
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Stories from the Vault: Woman Grinding Corn
Woman Grinding Corn, ceramic, Western Mexico, 200 BCE, 200 CE, AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, 2017.015.013 (photograph by Moises Guerrero Gallegos). Moises Guerrero Gallegos has published an essay on one of the AD&A Museum’s ceramic figurines, Woman Grinding Corn, in the new issue of Imagine: A Promise & McNair Scholars Undergraduate Journal. The piece, “Fragments of History: The…
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Fall of Freedom: Art Matters, Courage is Contagious
https://www.falloffreedom.com Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of…