Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB

The AD&A Museum is now accepting internship applications for the 2026-27 school year. Gain hands-on experience with collections, archives, exhibitions, and communications! Make connections across multiple UCSB departments and with the broader Santa Barbara area! Applications are open to all majors interested in exploring a career in art history, museum studies, digital humanities, and/or cultural work. To learn more about the program and its requirements, please visit museum.ucsb.edu/opportunities. For additional information and questions, join our information session tomorrow Wednesday, April 29 from 3-5pm at the Museum Box located in the Arts Building. 🔗 To access the application, scan the QR code or follow the link in our bio! 📌 Applications are due May 18, 2026

✨ The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is proud to present Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) (2023–ongoing) by artist Jackie Amézquita (@jackieamezquita ) as part of her upcoming exhibition at the AD&A Museum later this year. 🍃 Gemidos de la Tierra currently consists of twelve panels honoring the names of over 200 immigrants who have lost their lives while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody between 2003 and 2023. On May 16, joined by her collaborators and community, Amézquita will publicly activate this work by continuing to add the names of those who have passed away since 2023. Another activation will occur at UC Santa Barbara during the run of her exhibition on Sunday, November 1. 🗓️ Saturday, May 16, 2026 🕦 4 - 7 pm 📍 Inglewood, CA (location shared upon RSVP) 🔗 RSVP link in bio *Please note this program will take place in Inglewood, CA, and the address will be shared upon confirmation of RSVP a few days before the program. Parking will be limited, so plan to arrive early to secure street parking. #jackieamézquita #gemidosdelatierra #soilasmemory

🎉SAVE THE DATE🎉 🗓️ Opening May 23 🕔 5:30-7:30pm 📍AD&A Museum 🎟️ Free and open to the public 🍾 Light refreshments will be served The Art, Design & Architecture Museum and the Department of Art at UC Santa Barbara are pleased to announce the 2026 Master of Fine Arts exhibition Fault Lines, featuring the work of graduating artists Tiffany Aiello, Alexis Childress, Hope Christofferson, Emily d’Achiardi, Negar Farajiani, Vivek Karthikeyan, and KeyShawn Scott. Fault Lines brings together each artists’ physical and conceptual lines of inquiry into a shifting, evolving conversation, where investigation and creating tensions and new worlds are possible. Fault Lines will be on view during regular museum hours, Wed-Sun, 12-5pm until June 7.

✨ In collaboration with Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles (@craftcontemporary ), we are putting out a national open call for soil. 🍃 Artist Jackie Amézquita (@jackieamezquita ) invites you to contribute soil to be made into letters as part of her socially engaged project Gemidos de la Tierra (2023–ongoing) that will be on view at the AD&A Museum later this year. 🌾 Any kind of dry soil is appreciated, and we welcome soil that holds personal meaning. Just make sure it’s bagged or in a sealed container with a note about where it comes from. ✉️ People from across the U.S. are welcome to send soil by October 25, 2026. We are especially in need of soil from Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virgina, Washington, and Puerto Rico 📍Mail directly to Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 📸 Photos by Gina Clyne (@ginaclyne ) #jackieamézquita #callforsoil #soilasmemory

✨ In case you missed it, or wanted to reminisce, here are some highlights from our 2nd annual Night at the Museum! ✨ 💫 Thank you to everyone who stopped by and enjoyed the free Associated Students merch, an exhibition scavenger hunt, live music, snacks courtesy of UCSB Concessions, good vibes, and more! Massive props to our interns Reese Hutson and Mia Velazquez for making this evening possible! A special thank you to Emergency Contact (@emergencycontact.music ) and Monkfish (@monkfishband ) for maintaining a wonderful ambiance throughout the evening. Check out our blog post, linked in bio, to read more about this event. We hope to see you at the next!

💫 Last chance to see Tiffany Chung: indelible traces ✨ Over 2500 visitors have come to experience this incredible exhibition! Don’t miss your opportunity to spend some time with these marvelous artworks by UCSB alumna Tiffany Chung (@tiffanydchung ). This multimedia solo exhibition brings together 70 artworks spanning the artist’s 25-year career. Rich in detail and rooted in research, the work of Chung captivates. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April 26. 📍 AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara 🗓️ January 17 - April 26 🕦 Open Wed-Sun 12 PM-5 PM 🎟️ Free admission 📸 @ofphotostudio

✨ 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 (@tiffanydchung ) in collaboration with Isaac Hernández Campos (@isaac_hcampos ), Mario Norton, Alex Beaumier (@babby_crohns ), 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 (@mat_ucsb ). Advance tickets are free and highly recommended for guaranteed entry. Guests who arrive without tickets may be unable to enter based on building capacity.

All are welcome to join us on our final events for Tiffany Chung's exhibitions before they conclude on April 25th, 2026. Join UCSB Faculty + Staff for an informal conversation about their research in response to the art exhibition Tiffany Chung: indelible traces currently on view at the UCSB Art Design and Architecture Museum. Hear from speakers Althea Wasow, Anne Napatalung (@douladamnthing ), Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (@jorgeoaxrl ), Kiley Guyton Acosta (kikiynikai), and Hu'o'ng Ngô (@_bad_spy ). 📍 AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara 🗓️ April 22, 2026 🕦 12 PM - 1 PM 🎟️ Free admission Join UCSB Faculty + Staff for an informal conversation about their research in response to the immersive installation, Tiffany Chung: Spheres of Time. Speakers include Misha Sra, Argyro Katsika, Georgios Koutroulakis, Althea Wasow, Timothy Wood, and Kon Hyong Kim. 📍 UCSB AlloSphere 🗓️ April 25, 2026 🕦 1 PM - 3 PM 🎟️ Free admission

The gallery is thrilled to announce timo fahler’s, “flag,” has been acquired by The UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, which was made possible by a generous gift of the LJ Shirvanian Foundation 2026.002.001. “flag” was exhibited as part of fahler’s New York solo exhibition, TERMINAL CLASSIC, at the gallery last year. “flag” begins with a discarded mattress bedspring found in Los Angeles in 2024. fahler came across it while running, an integral part of his studio practice. For months it leaned on a studio wall until one day it revealed itself as a flag. The thirteen rows of springs became rows of red and white stripes. That act of recognition became the first gesture in this body of work, built from what was discarded and found around Los Angeles. flag was the last piece fahler made in the U.S., a quiet artifact that marks the end of an era for him.

💡 Powerful commentary from Dr. Orianna Cacchione, guest curator of this exhibition and Deputy Director at the University of Richmond Museums, regarding “Scratching the Walls of Memory” by Vietnamese American artist Tiffany Chung (@tiffanydchung ) If you would like to visit this work, or any of the other 70+ works currently on display, Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is currently on view up until April 26, 2026.💫 📍 AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara 🗓️ On view Jan 17 – Apr 26 🕦 Open Wed-Sun, 12–5 PM 🎟️ Free admission

Tomorrow is UCSB Give Day, and we hope you'll celebrate with us! Your gift to the AD&A Museum helps sustain a free, welcoming space where students and community engage with art, architecture, and design. Plus, a $4,000 challenge gift is waiting to be unlocked, and every donor counts. You can give early! Link in bio.🔗 #UCSBGiveDay We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who supports the AD&A Museum ❤️.

📍AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara 🗓️ Wednesday, April 15th 🕦 5:30-7:30 PM 🎟️ Free admission ✨ The AD&A Museum’s 2nd Annual Night at the Museum. Enjoy live music, grab free museum merchandise, take part in an exhibition scavenger hunt, and more! Snacks and beverages will be sold by UCSB Concessions, including freshly baked cookies and freshly popped popcorn. Take a break from studying and come to Night at the Museum! Bring roommates and friends! 🎵 IV bands: Monkfish and Emergency Contact 🥤 UCSB Concessions selling an assortment of snacks, drinks, popcorn, etc. #livemusic #nightatthemuseum #adamuseum