Please join us for the opening reception of our winter 2025 exhibitions, Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language 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!