HONORS GLASS BOX GALLERY ART 1A TALK ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

WHAT: Honors Cohort Glass Box Gallery Art 1A Talk

WHEN: Wednesday, February 25 from 12:30-1:45

WHERE: Glass Box Gallery (Arts  Building 534, Room 1328)

WHO: Tyler Alexander, Cameron Bibas, Bethany Close, Alex Edrozo, Payton Gomez, Elyse Harris-Crayton, Tomiko Osawa, Gaby Smith, Açúcar Viana Araujo and Jennette Wolfe

WHAT ELSE TO KNOW: The reception is from 4:00-6:00PM.

N.B.: Make sure to meet at the Glass Box Gallery, not Ellison Hall. Please arrive on time.

GLASSBOX GALLERY EXHIBITION: NON SCIMUS

Special Art 1A Events:

You will view this exhibition in your discussion sessions on Monday, November 24, and you are invited to the reception from 4-6PM that day.

On Monday, December 1 from 12:30-1:45, Kelly Andrade, Tyler Alexander, Maddie Cupples, Elyse Harris-Crayton and Krista Havluciyan are giving an Artist Talk about their work in this exhibition.

What: Art 1A Artist Talk

When: Monday, December 1 from 12:30-1:45

Where: Phelps 2524

UNEARTHED FEATURING GEMSTONE-INSPIRED PAINTINGS BY CATHERINE JENKS

Exhibition:

Unearthed features 18 paintings that are inspired by the weight of gemstones in our society. They have served roles both practical and symbolic throughout religion, art, jewelry, science, technology and literature. Throughout history, they have often been assigned symbolic meanings based on their visual characteristics. Unearthed explores this desire to use a visual language of colors and shapes to give a tangible form to our intangible emotions and experiences.

Artist Bio:

Catherine Jenks is an artist using paint as a tool and language to express, examine and understand the human experience. She is interested in influencing the viewer’s perception and psychological responses through manipulating color, rendering and composition. Her delicate, representational oil paintings dance along the fine line of displaying the beauty of reality and within the physicality of paint. Her paintings provide opportunities for reflection and reminders that everything is worthy of a close look. Catherine has a B.A. in Art, with an emphasis in Painting, from University of California Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA and is the Undergraduate Program Manager for UCSB's Art Department.

Artist Statement:

My current body of work, Unearthed, explores the weight of gemstones in our society. From grinding lapis lazuli into painting pigments, to using diamonds in engagement rings, they have served roles both practical and symbolic. We see them in religion, art, jewelry, science, technology and literature. Throughout history, people have equated various gemstone characteristics with symbolic meanings. This desire to have a tangible form for intangible subjects is something I often explore in my art. I’m interested in giving an image to our invisible thoughts and feelings. Painting these stones has let me examine my own visual language in comparison to the history of each stone. Often, they align with my own interpretation of their characteristics, like the fiery red and orange carnelian being linked to strong, proactive energies or the pale blue of blue lace agate being soothing. 

In art, flowers and fruit have often been used as a memento mori. Their quick and fragile life cycle serves as a reminder of the temporary nature of life. I find that stones act as a memento mori in a contrasting fashion. Gems have been around for thousands of years before us and they will last beyond us too. Our desire to own and alter these stones is an interesting example of the commodification of the natural world and our desire to wield a bit of its immortal power. The history of these stones has both beauty and bloodshed, but what ultimately stands out to me are how people use them to attempt to understand the world around them, whether through science or stories. And that is what I consider to be the most compelling core of making art. What does it mean to be a fragile human on a floating rock? How can we make the most of this experience? Can we go through a similar metamorphosis as minerals transforming into gems? 

We all have to find our own answers to these questions, but personally, I’ve found insight through these paintings. I make the most of life by experiencing deeply, feeling deeply, and taking moments to look at the world as if everything has the possibility to be a precious gem. 

Website: CatherineJenks.com

Instagram: @catherine.grace.jenks

ART 1A LACMA FIELD TRIP

Chris Burden. Urban Light (2008)

 LACMA FIELD TRIP:

MEETING AT LACMA: We will meet at LACMA at the Wilshire Blvd. entrance next to the ticket office and Chris Burden's Urban Light sculpture (shown picture above) at 12:30PM on Saturday, March 4. LACMA will be providing us with free admission to the museum. Please note that free tickets to LACMA are only for students registered in Art 1A. If you bring someone who isn't in Art 1A, then they must purchase their own ticket (this includes other UCSB students, friends, family, roommates etc.). 

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FROM LACMA: LACMA’s health and safety protocols and processes are implemented for you—our visitors—and our staff and volunteers. An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. COVID-19 is an extremely contagious disease that can lead to severe illness and death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, senior citizens and anyone with underlying medical conditions are especially vulnerable.

Masks are strongly recommended indoors for everyone.

Stay home if you are sick or have COVID-19 symptoms. Do not visit LACMA if you or anyone in your party is exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19 as identified by the L.A. County Department of Public Health, which include cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, fever, or chills.

Do not visit LACMA if in the last 10 days you or anyone in your party has been in close contact with or without face mask (within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes or any unprotected contact with bodily fluids/secretions) with someone who has COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms during the 10 days prior to your scheduled visit to LACMA, or if you or anyone in your party are currently under isolation or quarantine orders.

Please read all guidelines HERE before your visit. https://www.lacma.org/plan-your-visit

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: (323) 857-6010

PARKING & DIRECTIONS HERE

Parking costs $20.00 per vehicle, and it is not part of our free admission.

LACMA EXHIBITIONS WE WILL SEE:

Afro-Atlantic Histories:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/afro-atlantic-histories

Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/coded-art-enters-computer-age-1952-1982

Conversing in Clay:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/conversing-in-clay

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/ai-weiwei-circle-animals-zodiac-heads

The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/space-between-modern-korean-art

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938-1945:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/another-world

The Five Directions: Lacquer Through East Asia:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/five-directions-lacquer-through-east-asia

New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/new-abstracts-recent-acquisitions

LACMA Modern Art Collection:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/modern-art

ALTERNATIVE TRIP:

UCSB AD&A Museum of Art

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

93106-7130

Wednesday–Sunday: 12–5 pm

https://www.museum.ucsb.edu

If you cannot go to LACMA, then you need to go to The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara Exhibition: Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance.

Nota Bene: The museum trip is all-day immersive experience, and therefore the museum field trip is in lieu of both of the Art 1A lectures that week (section attendance is as scheduled). If you do not go to the museum that week, or the alternative assignment, then you will receive two absences. Take a selfie at the museum, and works of art that were of interest to you, and include it in your paper as proof of attendance.

ART 1A LACMA TRIP WINTER QUARTER 2020

Chris Burden. Urban Light (2008) LACMA

MEETING AT LACMA:

We will meet at LACMA at the Wilshire Blvd. entrance next to the ticket office and Chris Burden's Urban Light sculpture (shown above) at 11:00AM on Saturday, February 15. LACMA will be providing us with free admission to the museum.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: (323) 857-6010

PARKING & DIRECTIONS HERE

Parking costs $16.00 per vehicle, and it is not part of our free admission. If you are getting a ride in the University owned van (driven by your teaching assistant, or another University employee), you will be responsible to split the cost of parking (it will be a little over $1.00 for each of you, but the driver will not incur any of the costs since they are driving you for free). The cost of the UCSB vans and gasoline are being provided by the Department of Art.

Here are a few things to consider about our LACMA field trip: 

1) First, remember that this field trip is an all day event, and it replaces the Tuesday/Thursday lectures (February 11 & 13). You will, however, be attending your section that week (on February 11 & 12). Failing to go to LACMA, or the alternative museum trip to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the MCASB, will result in two absences being recorded in Art 1A.

2) You must fill out the University of California, Santa Barbara Waiver of Liability, Assumption of the Risk & Indemnity Agreement if you are going on the LACMA field trip, even if you are staying in Los Angeles that weekend. If you haven't, then submit it to your TA ASAP. This is mandatory UCSB policy.

3) Be sure that your TA has your phone number and email, and that you have their email. If you arrive late, you want to be able to find us at the museum.

4) I would suggest eating a big breakfast since we won't be taking a break for lunch until later in the day. Furthermore, pack snacks for the road, and for lunch, unless you want to treat yourself to food at the museum. There are also food trucks that park across from the museum on Wilshire Blvd.

5) If you are driving from Santa Barbara, be sure to give yourself at least two hours to drive to LACMA.You never know what kind of traffic that you will encounter.

6) Wear comfortable shoes and clothing! We will be doing a lot of walking and hiking up stairs, so you want to be very comfortable.

7) Charge your phone since you will want to take a lot of pictures at the museum.

8) If you do not already have a Twitter account, then please start one for Art 1A since you will be taking pictures and Tweeting responses. Please use the Art 1A and LACMA handles: @Art1AUCSB and @LACMA

9) The two Art 1A formal research papers* (the midterm paper on Julie Mehretu and the final research paper on Do Ho Suh) are based upon the following exhibitions that we will be viewing at LACMA:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/julie-mehretu

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/do-ho-suh-348-west-22nd-street

*N.B.: There are no alternative assignments for your midterm and final research papers. Whether or not you attend the LACMA field trip, your research papers are on the work of Julie Mehretu (midterm paper) and Do Ho Suh (final research paper). 

Magritte. The Treachery of Images (1928-29). LACMA

STUDENTS WHO DON'T GO TO LACMA:

Students who will not be going to LACMA will need to take a trip to downtown Santa Barbara to go to both the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: 805.963.4364
@sbmuseart
Tues - Sun 11 am - 5 pm
Thurs 11 am - 8 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays
Admission: Students with ID $3.00. Free admission for Santa Barbara County students (K – college) with current ID/proof of local residency.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
653 Paseo Nuevo
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: 805.966.5373
@MCASantaBarbara
Mondays and Tuesdays: Closed
Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 11 - 5 pm
Thursdays: 11 - 8 pm
Sundays: Noon - 5 pm
Admission Free

ASSIGNMENTS FOR EVERYONE:

Whether you go to LACMA or the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, you will be tweeting pictures of works of art that interest you. Additionally, you will write a 2 page museum response paper that will be due on Tuesday, February 18 in lecture.

Here are the twitter handles that you will need to use if you go to LACMA:
@Art1AUCSB
@LACMA

Here are the twitter handles that you will need to use if you go to SBMA and MCA:
@Art1AUCSB
@sbmuseart
@MCASantaBarbara

The two Art 1A formal research papers* (the midterm paper on Julie Mehretu and the final research paper on Do Ho Suh) are based upon the following exhibitions that we will be viewing at LACMA:

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/julie-mehretu

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/do-ho-suh-348-west-22nd-street

*N.B.: There are no alternative assignments for your midterm and final research papers. Whether or not you attend the LACMA field trip, your research papers are on the work of Julie Mehretu (midterm paper) and Do Ho Suh (final research paper). 

Spaces and Scenery Adrift in Santa Barbara: A Solo Exhibition by Avery DeSantis at the Glassbox Gallery

Happening at the Glass Box and Mini Box Galleries This Week

Temporary Clash 2019 | The Department of Art MFA Exhibition at the AD&A Museum

EVENT DATE: 

Saturday, May 11, 2019 to Sunday, June 2, 2019

The Department of Art is pleased to present the 2019 MFA thesis exhibition entitled Temporary Clash at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. The exhibition will be on view from May 11-June 2, 2019. A reception will be held on Friday, May 17, 5:30-7:30pm at the AD&A Museum on the campus of UCSB. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 

These eight young artists—whose enigmatic works are exhibited at the AD&A Museum—have developed individual projects that collectively incorporate a broad range of materials, aesthetics, and methods. From discrete objects that transcend their mundane origins to paintings, photography, data programming projections, and weavings, they present an array of idiosyncratic sensibilities. These different approaches simultaneously accentuate each artist’s singular voice whilst harmonizing as a whole

MFA students to be exhibiting their work include Maiza Hixson, Madeleine Eve Ignon, Adam Jahnke, Kayla Mattes, Elisa Ortega Montilla, Andrew Morrison. Echo Theohar, and Christopher Anthony Velasco.

Cover image: Kayla Mattes, Firewall, 2019, handwoven cotton and hand-dyed wool. 

#TemporaryClash

Irrational Memographies at the Glassbox Gallery

The F Word Exhibition featuring Elisa Ortega and Kayla Mattes

Elisa Ortega and Kayla Mattes and having an exhibition at the Cal State Channel Islands Napa Hall Gallery from March 4-April 4.

Who: Elisa Ortega and Kayla Mattes
Where: Napa Hall Gallery, Cal State Channel Islands
Location: One University Drive | Camarillo, CA (Map)
When: Exhibition from March 4- April 4, 2019
Reception: March 14, 6-8 pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 9 am-5 pm

ROSA AUM: VIEWS OF IN BETWEEN AT THE PRESS ROOM

Rosa Aum is having her first solo show at The Press Room!

Where: The Press Room 15 E Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 

When: Thursday, February 7-Thursday, February 28th

MARSHALL SHARPE & PILAR HERRERA LAND EXHIBITION: EYE TO I

www.MarshallSharpe.com

YUMIKO GLOVER EXHIBITION: PUSHING THE BUTTON 2,058 TIMES

LACMA Trip Spring 2018

This is our art @LACMA @Art1AUCSB @Agilmor25487381 pic.twitter.com/uS30yvQac2

— Rudy (@raaiv98) May 13, 2018

The Art 1A Getty Center Field Trip Winter Quarter 2018

@GettyMuseum Thank you so much for hosting my #UCSB #Art1AUCSB students yesterday! We had a beautiful day and reveled in the majesty of the Caravaggio Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese exhibit @galleriaborghes #GettyMuseum #GettyInspired #GalleriaBorghese #Caravaggio #Getty pic.twitter.com/MfcgOfOVrL

— Helen Taschian (@Art1AUCSB) February 18, 2018

CHIURA OBATA: AN AMERICAN MODERN AT THE UCSB AD&A MUSEUM

      Chiura Obata, Grand Canyon, May 15, 1940, Watercolor on silk, 17 1⁄2 x 21 3⁄4 in. Amber and Richard Sakai Collection

Your first research paper, which is due on Thursday, February 8 in lecture, is about Chiura Obata's work. The AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara has an exhibition featuring this artist, and it is currently on view.

According to AD&A Museum,

Chiura Obata (1885–1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. But Obata emerged as a leading figure in the Northern California artistic communities, serving not only as an influential art professor at UC Berkeley for nearly twenty years, but also as a founding director of art schools in the internment camps.

This exhibition presents an unprecedented survey of Obata’s rich and varied body of work that includes over 150 superb paintings and personal effects, many of which have never been on public display. With a prodigious and expansive oeuvre, Obata’s seemingly effortless mastery of, and productive engagement with, diverse techniques, styles, and traditions defy the dichotomous categorizations of American/European and Japanese/Asian art. His faith in the power of art, his devotion to preserving the myriad grandeur of what he called “Great Nature,” and his compelling personal story as an immigrant and an American are all as relevant to our contemporary moment as ever.

The University of California Press is publishing the exhibition catalogue that showcases more than 100 beautiful images and a selection of Obata’s writings, as well as a rare 1965 interview with the artist. The scholarly essays by ShiPu Wang, curator of this exhibition and a UCSB alumnus, and the other contributors illuminate the intense and productive cross-cultural negotiations that Obata’s life and work exemplify, in the context of both American modernism and the early twentieth-century U.S. racio-ethnic relations—a still-understudied area in American art historical scholarship. 

This exhibition and catalogue is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The catalog can be found here: Chiura Obata An American Modern Catalogue.
                     
Exhibition dates:

Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara: January 13–April 29, 2018
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City: May 25–September 2, 2018
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan: January 18–March 10, 2019
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento: June 23–September 29, 2019

David Hockney's Pearblossom Hwy

Art 1A Visual Literacy Special Guest Presentation: LOVE, PEACE, DREAMS AND BOMBS

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative project, Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs. This project pairs the exhibition of artwork by UCSB MFA student Yumiko Glover, alongside talks in related fields by students and scholars A. Colin Raymond (Art History), Carl Gabrielson (EALCS), Sabine Früstück (EALCS), and Travis Seifman (History), as well as video interviews conducted by activist Naoya Matsushima. A collaborative expression through art, scholarship, and activism, the aim of Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs is to promote more complex and globally-situated understandings of Japan.

Talks and Q&A will take place on Wednesday, March 1, from 2-3:30pm at the MultiCultural Center Theater, followed by an opening reception from 4-7pm at the Glass Box Gallery (ARTS 1326). Glover's artwork will be on display from February 27 - March 3. However, three of the the people involved in this collaborative project will be making a special presentation in Art 1A Visual Literacy on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.

This collaborative project is sponsored by the UCSB Department of Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the MultiCultural Center.

About Love, Peace, Dreams and Bombs,

This project was born of everyday interactions among friends and colleagues. We are artists, scholars, and activists, and each of us engages in different disciplinary approaches to and conversations with Japanese culture and society. In Yumiko Glover's art, however, we found a point at which our distinct interests in history, identity, media, globalization, theory, and politics overlap. By exploring these connections, we came to see that our works, when presented together, offer the audience more than what each of us could supply alone. The end result is *Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs*, an experiment in collaborative expression which through art,  scholarship, and activism promotes more complex and globally-situated understandings of Japan.

ART 1A EVENTS:

Art 1A Presentation: Tuesday, February 28 from 3:30-4:45 (Chem. 1171)

Art Exhibition: Thursday, March 2 from 3:30-4:45 in the Glass Box Gallery (Arts 1326)

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

YUMIKO GLOVER

 www.yumikoglover.com
Yumiko Glover's artwork draws inspiration from her real-life experiences growing up in Hiroshima, Japan. She observes its society and culture as an artist living in the United States. In her current body of work entitled: *LOVE, PEACE, DREAMS, and BOMBS*, Glover depicts youthful figures juxtaposed with elements associated with war, history, and technology....

Yumiko was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She received a BFA from University of Hawai'i, and is currently an MFA 2017 Candidate in the Department of Art at UCSB.

A. COLIN RAYMOND
The false dichotomy between art and craft has been widely criticized, as postmodern and contemporary artists plumb the indeterminacy of these categories while simultaneously expanding fields of influence, drawing on yet further distinctive visual media. Contemporary artists increasingly reference game design, films, advertising, and graffiti. Commercial and counter-cultural aesthetics collapse, occasionally even abutting referents to more long-standing artistic traditions. This talk examines the proliferation of such aesthetic categories alongside unique instantiations within the world of contemporary Japanese art.

Colin is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB. His primary research focus is post-war and contemporary Japanese art, video, and new media.

TRAVIS SEIFMAN
Though today a prefecture of Japan, the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) were an independent kingdom, with their own distinctive culture, until their annexation less than 150 years ago. Devastated in 1945, the islands came under US occupation for nearly 30 years, and a significant US military presence continues today. Contemporary Okinawan art is deeply colored by this historical experience, and artists infuse their works with the traditional, even as they address the hopes and struggles of the contemporary. In this presentation, I provide a glimpse into Okinawan art today.

Travis is a Ph.D. candidate in History, UCSB. Japan Foundation fellow 2016-17. Holds MA in Art History from University of Hawai'i. Studies performance of Ryukyuan (Okinawan) identity in early modern diplomacy.

Yumiko Glover, Tomoko vs Mr. A (Image provided courtesy of the artist)

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium Exhibition | The Getty Center & LACMA

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium

March 15–July 31, 2016 at The Getty Center

Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–1989) is among the most influential visual artists of the late twentieth century. This major retrospective exhibition reexamines the arc of his photographic work from its humble beginnings in the early 1970s to the culture wars of the 1990s. Drawn from the landmark acquisition made in 2011 from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the exhibition mixes Mapplethorpe's most iconic images with lesser-known photographs. Two complementary presentations, one at the J. Paul Getty Museum and another at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, are designed to highlight different aspects of the artist’s complex personality.

March 20, 2016–July 31, 2016 LACMA BCAM, Level 2

Robert Mapplethorpe’s practice as an artist was characterized by inherent dualities. He sought what he called “perfection in form” in everything from acts of sexual fetishism to the elegant contours of flower petals. This exhibition explores Mapplethorpe's body of work through early drawings, collages, sculptures, and Polaroid photography; materials from his archive; portraits, still lifes, and figure studies; rare color photographs; and two seldom-seen moving image works. A companion exhibition will be presented simultaneously at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The exhibition at LACMA highlights the artist’s relationship to New York's sexual and artistic undergrounds, as well as his experimentation with a variety of media. Additionally, the exhibition will be accompanied by Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, a focused installation of work by other artists drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection that helps place Mapplethorpe in conversation with the art of the 1980s. The companion exhibition at the Getty explores Mapplethorpe's disciplined studio practice and his fascination with classical form and the fine photographic print.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The Art Department Interlude & the Art 1A Trip to the Getty Center

Please make sure that you have submitted your University of California, Santa Barbara Waiver of Liability, Assumption of the Risk & Indemnity Agreement to your Art 1A TA, or to Trela Cowan, The Department of Art Undergraduate Advisor. This is mandatory if– even if you are coming from LA.

The extent to which this trip is significant cannot sufficiently be underscored– because the Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium exhibition is currently on view at The Getty (March 15–July 31, 2016), and his work is the subject of Paper #1 for this class! Please make every effort to attend this very special event since it will prove to be a wonderful experience that will directly impact, and inspire, your interest in your first research paper.

If you are carpooling (2 or more 1A students in a single vehicle), then you are eligible to receive free parking. Once you have submitted your paperwork to go on the field trip, then I will give you the special Getty issued code for free parking. Parking is $15.00 per vehicle if you are not carpooling.

N.B.: If you have HBO, then you should try to watch the new documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, that is currently airing. I suggest watching it before our museum trip.

If you do not already have a Twitter account, then please start one for Art 1A since you will be taking pictures and Tweeting responses. Please use the Art 1A and Getty handles: @Art1AUCSB and @GettyMuseum

We will be meeting on April 16 at noon on the museum side of the tram drop off (shown above).

Driving directions can be found here. General information: http://www.getty.edu