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color photograph of art students working on a mural
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Yumiko Glover
UCSB ART 100 students working on the Lane Room Mural, summer 2026

Student artists produce themed mural for Department of Political Science

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framed art on gallery wall
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"
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photo sculpture of mannequins in vintage clothing
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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