Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB
Established1959
LocationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, California
Coordinates34°24′43″N 119°50′56″W / 34.4120°N 119.8488°W / 34.4120; -119.8488
TypeArt, design, architecture museum
Websitemuseum.ucsb.edu

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]

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] Architectural design collections include the papers of Rudolph Schindler, Irving Gill, Lutah Maria Riggs, and George Washington Smith.

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

Exhibitions during the 2020s

References

  1. ↑ "University of California Humanities Research and Scholarship Opportunities" (PDF). University of California Office of the President. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  2. ↑ Dinaberg, Leslie (2023-08-13). "An Art Museum with a Defining Collection of Southern California Architecture & Design". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
  3. 1 2 UAM Website Archived July 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "About". AD&A Museum. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
  5. ↑ Grega, Josh (2020-04-28). "UCSB's Art, Design, & Architecture Museum enhancing online exhibits while gallery is closed due to coronavirus". Santa Barbara News-Press. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  6. ↑ Donelan, Charles (29 August 2012). "Amy Cutler at UCSB's AD&A Museum". Santa Barbara Independent.
  7. ↑ Turtle Fur. Amy Cutler. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. 2011. ISBN 9783775728096.
  8. ↑ Donelan, Charles (12 July 2007). "Warhol About to Pop". Santa Barbara Independent.
  9. ↑ Yee, Michelle (Fall 2019). "Exhibition Review - Chiura Obata: An American Modern". Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. 5 (2).
  10. ↑ Hernandez, Jasmin (20 February 2019). "Artist Ja'Tovia Gary and Her Films Are a Force to Be Reckoned With". Cultured Magazine. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  11. ↑ Vessels, Stephen (18 October 2007). "John Sonsini, The Santa Barbara Project". Santa Barbara Independent.
  12. ↑ Donelan, Charles (4 February 2019). "The Art of Carl Gustav Jung". Santa Barbara Independent.
  13. ↑ Herrick, Debra (20 April 2023). "Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period". University of California News.
  14. ↑ Herrick, Debra (21 April 2023). "'Harmonia Rosales: Entwined' Inspires a Show in Memphis". Santa Barbara Independent.
  15. ↑ Donelan, Charles (7 April 2022). "African Gods Meet Greek Mythology in Harmonia Rosales's 'Entwined'". Santa Barbara Independent.
  16. ↑ Woodard, Josef (14 September 2022). "Review | 'Ishi Glinsky: Upon a Jagged Maze' at UC Santa Barbara's AD&A Museum". Santa Barbara Independent.
  17. ↑ Heller, Marcia (12 August 2024). "Art, Design & Architecture Museum Features Works of Keith Puccinelli". Noozhawk.
  18. ↑ Dinaberg, Leslie (10 September 2024). "A Dotty Good Turnout for 'Pooch' at UC Santa Barbara AD&A Museum". Santa Barbara Independent.
  19. ↑ Herrick, Debra (31 January 2025). "Japanese Artist Tomiyama Taeko Exhibition on View at UC Santa Barbara AD&A Museum". Santa Barbara Independent.
  20. ↑ Cacchione, Orianna; Chung, Tiffany (2025). Tiffany Chung: Indelible Traces. Munich: Hirmer. ISBN 978-3-7774-4686-8.
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