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Dolly Parton the icon with platinum blond hair helmet, blue eye shadow and yellow chiffon dress
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Harry Langdon; Copyright Rock Negatives / MediaPunch 2026
Dolly Parton in 1977

We’ll always love Dolly Parton, Dollyologist explains

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man with grey and black shoulder length hair and tattoos on his arms
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Jeff Liang
Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.

What does it mean to be ‘Hapa?’ Artist Kip Fulbeck reflects on 25-year identity project
college age woman of Taiwanese descent sits in studio with branches and canvas
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Debra Herrick
Meiya Sidney '25, College of Creative Studies and art honors

Artist explores Taiwanese heritage and memory though ceramics
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
blue lights in shape of trees and roots
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024

How an artist and a scientist uncovered hidden landscapes  
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.

California artists reimagine language, state’s identity in new exhibition
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.

Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko’s critique of imperialism
printed materials of assorted sizes and styles
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Courtesy

Santa Barbara’s Off Register art book and print fair brings art, prints and interactive exhibits
cyanotype
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Courtesy
Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"

Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition
abstract art
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iStock

How art opens the mind: Professor Jonathan Schooler’s research on the cognitive effects of art
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”

Exploring the connection between memory and film through art
black and white AI generated image of wires and computers overgrown
George Legrady, "The Alchemist’s Study: #f803b," 2022

Exploring the aesthetics of AI
pink and black weaving
Photo Credit
Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, Spiral Arm Red, 2023. Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn, cotton yarn, image source Milky Way Galaxy.

Artist Sarah Rosalena featured in six Getty PST ART shows, gains spot in LACMA’s collection
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