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Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum

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dancer in black and white striped dress
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
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The beauty of thinking differently, reflected in art
blue infinity pool rectangular shape overlooking the hills
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Tycho Saariste
Helena Arahuete, Interior of the Roscoe house ("House above the Morning Clouds"), 2009

Modernists defined organic architecture, Helena Arahuete is making it current 
Painting of a friend by Lyra Purugganan

Take a friend to an artist’s studio
Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney
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Debra Herrick
Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney

‘Love and care outside normativity’ — a new art show immerses viewers in queer placemaking
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Making change, and creating justice, through art
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Artist residency merges hands-on creativity and cutting-edge science
Alex Lukas
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Debra Herrick
Artist and assistant professor Alex Lukas in his studio

Documenting names crafted in public places with nails, tar, bark and bubblegum, artist Alex Lukas releases 12th edition of his fanzine
Art, Design & Architecture Museum
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Ruben Diaz
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

An art museum with a defining collection of Southern California architecture & design
Artist collage by Angela YT Chan
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Angela YT Chan
Angela YT Chan's collage series is featured in the "Holding Sway" collection of photo essays

The curious histories and lives of seaweeds, revealed in stories and photos
Installation view of ceramic and weaving exhibition
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, "Pointing Star," Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

Art professor and artist Sarah Rosalena draws inspiration from the stars, technology and her ancestors
A woman seen from behind standing a window that opens to a brick wall
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Courtesy photo
The piece "Hope," by an anonymous artist, is part of the exhibition "Woman. Life. Freedom."

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights
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