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A student looks at images of bees in the library corridor.
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Harrison Tasoff
Natural history collections like the one housed at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration hold valuable data accumulated over 100 years.

Take a microscopic look at our native bees at the UCSB Library

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blue lights in shape of trees and roots
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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two colorful prints in exhibition space
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Ingrid Bostrom
Corita Kent (b. Fort Dodge, IA, 1918 - 1986), “harness the sun” and “solw,” details, both 1967, Serigraph on paper, Courtesy of Corita Art Center, Los Angeles. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
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A surreal painting by Taeko Tomiyama featuring masked and costumed figures in an underwater-like setting. Human, animal, and mythical characters emerge from a dark, marine background with coral, fish, and a large nautilus.
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Jeff Liang
Tomiyama Taeko, "Theater Beneath the Sea, 'Splendid Banquet for the Empire,'" detail, 2008, oil on canvas, gift of Sakata Natsume in memory of her mother Tomiyama Taeko, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
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cyanotype
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Courtesy
Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"
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photo sculpture of mannequins in vintage clothing
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Courtesy
Jane Callister, from the series ”Imaginary Film Stills from a Movie that Never Existed”
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black and white AI generated image of wires and computers overgrown
George Legrady, "The Alchemist’s Study: #f803b," 2022
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pink and black weaving
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, Spiral Arm Red, 2023. Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn, cotton yarn, image source Milky Way Galaxy.
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bald man in green car on fire with arrows chasing
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Wayne McCall
Keith Puccinelli, "Hot Rod Ambush," 2014. Blacklight ink and pen on paper, diptych. Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Pooch’s World
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house nestled in rocks in night landscape
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James Haefner
Southwest view of the Doolittle house, Joshua Tree, November 2022