ART 130 MUSEUM FIELD TRIPS FOR SUMMER SESSION A 2025

This quarter we have two spectacular field trips planned. Our first field trip is to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the second field trip is to the Getty Center. There are simply too many important exhibitions between these two museums, and therefore we will have two field trips. These field trips are all day events, and they are in lieu of the lectures that week. If you are unable to go to the Getty Center or LACMA, there is an alternative field trip for you to attend on your own during the week of our LACMA or Getty Trips. The alternative trip is to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (details below). You must attend one of the Los Angeles field trips, and can do the other in Santa Barbara, if you can't make the trip to LA twice. It is by far preferable that you attend both Los Angeles field trips.

PLEASE FILL OUT ALL THREE OF THE LIABILITY WAIVERS ASAP:

All three liability waivers are in this one link. Be sure to sign and date all three, and you must use your first and last name. Link HERE: https://powerforms.docusign.net/617c99b5-0029-4e2f-893b-a196a28a3eb6?env=na3&acct=36d87d60-c882-4887-835a-bc389fb776dd&accountId=36d87d60-c882-4887-835a-bc389fb776dd

A FEW TIPS TO PREPARE FOR OUR FIELD TRIPS:

1) Be sure that you have our emails with you! If you arrive late, you want to be able to find us at the museum. However, try to leave early so that you arrive on time, because reception isn't good in all parts of the museums, and you may be waiting a long time before we see your email.

2) 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.

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

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

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

FIELD TRIP #1: LACMA ON SATURDAY, JULY 12 AT NOON

FIELD TRIP #2: THE GETTY CENTER ON SATURDAY, JULY 26 AT 1:00PM

MANDATORY LIABILITY WAIVERS (PLEASE FILL OUT ALL OF THEM TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR ALL OF THE FIELD TRIPS):

All three liability waivers are in this one link: HERE. Be sure to sign and date all three.

Students must submit the liability waiver forms for each trip, and will not receive free admission without them. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

FIELD TRIP #1 ON SATURDAY, JULY 12: LACMA AT 12:00PM:

Students must submit the liability waiver form, and will not receive free admission to LACMA without it. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

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 12:00PM on Saturday, July 12. LACMA will be providing us with free admission to the museum, but they do not provide free parking. I will be waiting for you with your free admission ticket.

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 $21.00 per vehicle, and it is not part of our free admission. There is also street parking in the surrounding neighborhoods and meter parking.

FIELD TRIP #2 ON SATURDAY, JULY 26: THE GETTY CENTER AT 1:00PM:

Students must submit the liability waiver form, and will not be able to attend without it. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

We will be meeting at 1:00PM on the museum side of the tram drop off (shown above). If you are carpooling (2 or more people from Art 130 and/or Art 1A students in a single vehicle), then you are eligible to receive free parking, otherwise you must pay $25.00 for parking. Only Art 130 students are eligible for free parking. Parking Information: https://www.getty.edu/visit/center/parking-and-transportation/

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Parking and Transportation Information HERE

http://www.getty.edu

ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM TRIP: If you are unable to attend the Getty Center, or LACMA then you can go on your own on a different day, or do the alternative trip to the SBMA, but you must attend at least one of the LA museums with our class.

ALTERNATIVE TRIP to SBMA: This is in case of an emergency that prevents you from attending one of the two LA museum field trips, but not both.

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

Free to students with ID

https://www.sbma.net

Nota Bene: The museum trip is all-day immersive experience, and therefore the museum field trip is in lieu of both of the Art 126 seminar meetings that week. If you do not go to the museum that week, or do the alternative museum field trip, then you will have two absences and a zero on the writing assignment that week. Take a selfie at the museum, and photographs of the works of art that were of interest to you, and include them in your paper (see assignments  in the "Reading" tab at the top of the website).

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

Coastal Craze at the Glassbox Gallery: A Solo Show by Avery DeSantis

Please visit Coastal Craze, a solo exhibition about local coastal conservation by Avery DeSantis, at the Digital Glassbox Gallery (HERE), and on Avery's website (HERE).