University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum collection, 1937-2012

Summary

Abstract:

Records of the University of California, Santa Barbara's University Art Museum.

Extent:

6 Linear Feet (8 document boxes and 1 flat box)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum. UArch 30. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains administrative files and exhibition catalogs, announcements, and posters for the University of California, Santa Barbara's University Art Museum.

Biographical / historical:

The University Art Museum (UAM) was established in 1959 as a gallery dedicated to art education at UC Santa Barbara, it served as a unique educational resource for academic and community audiences throughout the region. Wtih a Fine Art Collection of over 8,500 works and over 750,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection, the Museum earned an international reputation for its innovative and culturally diverse exhibitions, catalogues, and interdisciplinary programs.

The mission of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was to serve as a unique educational resource for the various audiences of the university and the community through the collection, preservation, and interpretation of works of art, architecture, and design. By presenting innovative, challenging, and culturally diverse exhibitions, producing catalogues and other publications, and organizing interdisciplinary programs on issues of historical, social, and cultural relevance, the UAM sought to promote scholarship, inspire creative excellence, and deepen an understanding of the visual arts produced by the world's peoples, past and present."

Today, the museum is known as the Art, Design and Architecture (ADA) Museum. Through rotating installations of its permanent collections along with special exhibitions and programs, it continues to operate as both a teaching museum, committed to the development of critical thinking and visual literacy in support of the University's goals of education, research, and service, and a resource for the wider Santa Barbara community and surrounding region. Its mission is to stimulate research, support artistic practice, and generate original programming through its collections and exhibitions.

Acquisition information:

Undetermined; additional materials received occasionally.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by topic and format into three series:

• Series 1: Administrative files
• Series 2: Exhibitions
• Series 3: Oversized

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

The University Art Museum holds its own archive of materials on campus buildings and architectural drawings. A list of their architecture and design collections can be found online.

In University Archives:

Missing Title

1. UCSB Art Department collection, UArch 70
2. UCSB Arts and Lectures Records, UArch 16 - Schedules for events occasionally include exhibitions and other events at the University Art Museum
3. UCSB Office of Public Information Subject Files, UArch 12 - Files on art galleries and art museum

Most exhibition catalogs for the University Art Museum are located at the Arts Library and are searchable through the UCSB Library online catalog.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum. UArch 30. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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