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Exhibition Opening – Sacred Art
September 14, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Sacred Art in the Age of Contact
The new exhibition brings together, for the first time, a diverse body of objects from local collections, from the first decades following the Chumash’s first contact with the Spanish, c. 1769-1824. Together, these materials offer a fuller picture of the relationship between art and spirituality in both Chumash and Spanish traditions, and demonstrate the sustained deployment of Chumash visual systems by native artists in early colonial visual culture. Highlighting themes of sacred geography, language, materiality and resistance, Sacred Art investigates the mutually transformative interaction between these traditions, which have immediate implications on the ways in which the cultural dynamics of Santa Barbara County are understood today.
Exhibition Opening Celebration
Thursday, September 14th
5:30 pm
Santa Barbara Historical Museum
Free entry. RSVP to reception@sbhistorical.org
Note that theArt, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara will celebrate their opening on Wednesday, September 27th, 5:30-7:30 pm.
The exhibition will be on public view:
Santa Barbara Historical Museum
September 15 – January 14, 2018
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
September 16 – December 8, 2017
Sacred Art is curated by Maggie Bell and Diva Zumaya, Adjunct Assistant Curators and Doctoral Candidates, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara and is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.