Over 125 colorful, vintage concert and dance posters from the 1960s, featuring such legendary bands as The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the Chambers Brothers.  The selection includes a large sampling of works by Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson — graphic designers known as The Big Five of the “psychedelic era,” an important moment in the history of American graphic design.  It also includes rare, never-before-exhibited posters from Santa Barbara-area concerts held at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, Santa Barbara City College, and UC Santa Barbara.  In addition to the posters, a 20-minute documentary film entitled “Feed Your Head: The Psychedelic Era” — produced by Ravin' Films for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — will run continuously in the Thayer Gallery.  A fully illustrated 90-page catalog will be available for purchase.  These artworks, many of which have become iconic images of 1960s American culture, are from an extensive collection of rock concert posters owned by Santa Barbara designer Paul Prince.

'60s Gala
Saturday, October 1
5:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Open House
Thursday, October 6
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

•Closed MONDAY/Open FOR LUNCH with collector Paul Prince
Monday, October 17, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

Artists Panel: “The Listening Eye: 40 Years of Psychedelic Art” with poster designers Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson
Thursday, November 17, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
McCune Conference Room, HSSB, 6th floor
Gallery Walkthrough at the UAM with the artists immediately afterwards
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Film Series: “Up Against The Wall: Screening the ’60s” six evenings of screened films on ’60s counter-culture.
Wednesdays, October 12 - November 16, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., at the UAM.

Wednesday, November 2, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Multi-Media Lecture: “Un-Imaging Utopia: Reframing the ’60s,” UCSB Professor Dick Hebdige, Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC).

The Black Panthers 1968
September 28 – November 27, 2005

A landmark photographic essay by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones — who for over 40 years chronicled the people, politics, and landscape of Northern California — and in the process captured the most important American social movements of the second half of the 20th century.  Colleagues of Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Dorothea Lange, they the pair gained unprecedented exposure to rallies, meetings, and individuals — including iconic leaders Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale — and insightfully documented the early days of the Black Panther Party and this significant moment in Bay Area history.  The resulting portraits stand in radical contrast to mass media images of the time depicting the Black Panthers as thugs, criminals or dangerous subversives. Gifted photographers with a socio-documentary vision, Baruch and Jones’ images are characterized by sensitivity and acute observation, revealing a personal, nuanced understanding of the Black Panthers and their organization.  The complete series was published in book form in 2002 by Greybull Press, and some of these photographs also appeared in Jones’ seminal book California Photographs, published in 2001 by Aperture in celebration of its 50th anniversary.  Exhibition organized by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk at the UAM: Monday, October 24, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Pirkle Jones and Kathleen Cleaver, J.D.

Lecture: Tuesday, October 25, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
“Looking Back,” Kathleen Cleaver, J.D.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 
Free for UCSB students and faculty and SBMA members; $5 others.

Lecture and Reception: Professor Angela Davis "The Legacy of the Black Panthers.", UC Santa Cruz; UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion, Tuesday, November 1, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Film Series: “Up Against The Wall: Screening the ’60s” six evenings of screened films on ’60s counter-culture.
Wednesdays, October 12 - November 16, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., at the UAM.

Lecture: Thursday, November 17, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
“Locating Asian Americans in the Black Panther Party,” UCSB Associate Professor Diane Fujino.

Events with Kathleen Cleaver are co-sponsored by the UAM, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC).  The Angela Davis event is co-sponsored by the UAM and the IHC.

Isabelle Greene: Shaping Place in the Landscape
March 30 - May 15, 2005

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"Shaping Place in the Landscape" will explore the work and design philosophy of nationally acclaimed Santa Barbara-based landscape architect, Isabelle Greene, FASLA (Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects), principal of the Santa Barbara-based design firm Isabelle Greene & Associates, through selected projects from her 40-year career, capturing the artistry of her compositions with photographs, landscape plans, sketches, models, a video, and a unique “dry-scape” installation created by Greene in the Nachman Gallery of the UAM.

This will be the first major exploration of Isabelle Greene's career and methodology. Her pioneering design work has, since the mid-1960s, helped focus attention on the need for environmentally sensitive and sustainable design. The exhibitions and their related programs are planned to coincide with National Landscape Architecture Week - held every year in mid-April - which annually draws visitors from across the country to Southern California and Santa Barbara.

Greene has designed more than 520 residence and public gardens and landscapes in Santa Barbara County, as well as others across the country -- in Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, Nevada -- and elsewhere in California: Sacramento, San Clemente, Malibu, Pasadena, and Anaheim. Her public landscaping and garden designs include the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

The University Art Museum's exhibition will examine more than 10 of her most significant landscapes by displaying a variety of materials from Greene's design archives, including sketches, drawings, photographs, and art work. To help give visitors a sense of the richness of her landscapes, the exhibition also features a video exploration of the Lovelace garden, one of Greene's most intricate and longstanding local designs. The video includes audio interviews with Greene describing various aspects of the garden's design.

The dry-scape installation, created especially for the exhibition, will be a living, site-appropriate example of Greene's landscape artistry and design.

Isabelle Greene's gardens have been featured in such publications as House Beautiful, House and Garden, Horticulture, Martha Stewart Living, Landscape Architecture, Contemporary Gardens, L.A. Times magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and in such books as Gardens of Santa Barbara, The Mediterranean Garden, Sunset Books, The New American Garden, The Essential Garden Book, Ganna Walska Lotusland, and A Child's Garden--Enchanting Outdoor Spaces for Children and Parents.

At a complementary exhibition, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA)'s "Ines Roberts: Interpreting Isabelle Greene's Landscapes" (February 12 - May 15) features 160 newly commissioned color images by noted photographer Ines E. Roberts of five of Greene's local gardens in a specially projected moving installation.

Additional Exhibition Events and Programming:

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 2, 5-7 p.m.
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Closed MONDAY/Open FOR LUNCH with Isabelle Greene
Monday April 11, 11:30 a.m ñ 1:00 p.m.
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Lecture by Ines Roberts: "Exploring Isabelle Greene's Gardens"
Thursday April 21, 5:00 p.m.
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Conversation with Isabelle Greene and Professor David Streatfield,
Landscape Historian, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Tuesday April 26, 6:00 p.m.
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Tour: The Gardens of Isabelle Greene
Saturday April 30
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will sponsor a special ticketed tour with Isabelle Greene through four of her Santa Barbara gardens. For information and reservations, please call Liane Duffy, SBMA Events Manager, at (805) 884-6426.

Symposium: "Santa Barbara Landscapes: Natural, Historical, or Cultural?"
Saturday May 14, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., HSSB Room 1174, UC Santa Barbara
Organized by Professor Volker Welter, Department of History of Art & Architecture, and supported by the College of Letters & Science and the Division of Humanities & Fine Arts, UCSB.