Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art Archives

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2023-2024 Season

Straddling Circumference...The Art of Linda Ekstrom

5x5: Westmont College Celebrating 85 Years

Camille Corot to Orthodox Icons: Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree's Gifts to the Collection

In Between Moments: Senior Graduate Exhibition 2024

2024 Tri-County Juried Exhibition: To Be Honest...[tbh]

Characters of the Spirit World: Traditional Hopi Katsina Dolls

 
2022-2023 Season

Adam Belt: Wish You Were Here

A Bold and Unconventional Collector: Highlights from the Barry Berkus Family Collection

a space of her own: Senior Graduates Exhibition 2023

Entangled: Resonding to Environmental Crisis, Featuring Madeleine Tonzi and GATS

MIXED UP: 2023 Tri-County Juried Exhibition 

 

 2021-2022 Season

Making a Fine Impression: Prints from the Faith and Dewayne Perry Print Collection

Towards a 21st Century Abstraction

Marie Schoeff: Amplifying the Between

Presence: Senior Graduate Exhibition 2022

At the Edge: Tri-County Juried Exhibition

 

 2020-2021 Season

5x5: Celebrating Ten Years

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Contemporary Art

Untold: Senior Graduates Exhibition 2021

Matter + Spirit: A Chinese/American Exhibition [Online]

 

2019-2020 Season

Spontaneous Response: The Innovative Ceramics of Don Reitz

Kent Anderson Butler: From the Belly of the Whale

Contemporary Masters: Works on Paper from the Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas

ADJACENT: Westmont Graduate Exhibition 2019

Time & Memory: Tri-County Juried Exhibition

From Autio to Voulkos: Thirteen of Reitz' Contemporaries

The Flat File Show

Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper from the Museum Collection

 

2018-2019 Season

Looking Back / Going Forward: R. Anthony Askew

Creative Hands: Highlights from the Westmont Art Council

Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography

OPEN/CLOSE: Westmont Graduate Exhibition 2019

Body and Soul: Annual Tri-County Juried Exhibition

Taxis, Toys, and Treasures: R. Anthony Askew

Rose Compass: Paintings of Santa Barbara's Watershed

 
2017-2018 Season

Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 - Present

Guatemala Symposium

5x5: Celebrating Westmont College’s 80th Anniversary

Africa through Its Sculpture: The Lifshitz Collection

Graduate Exhibition 2018

Night and Day: Tri-County Juried Exhibition 2018

 
2016-2017 Season

Dug Uyesaka: long story short

Worlds in Stone: China, Japan, Korea, and North America

Bowers/ERRE: So Close and So Far

Ingrid Hernandez: Border and Immigration Photography

Celebrating John Moses and SlingShot Artists

Human Rights Today: Challenges for the Future Lecture with Alison Brysk

Bowers/ERRE: A Conversation Beyond Borders

As of Yet UNKNOWN: Westmont Graduate Exhibition 2017

Art Council Spring Trip 2017: Hilbert Museum and Bowers Museum

Out of Place: Tri-County Juried Show

How Modernism Came to Santa Barbara: 1945-1990

Kenneth Jewesson Fundraiser

Summer Ceramic Workshop

 
2015-2016 Season

Wesley Anderegg Ceramic Sculpture

ArtWatch 2015:

tug: Dane Goodman and Keith Puccinelli

Saar, Serra, Surls, and more: Thirty New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art

Barbizon, Realism, and Impressionism in France

16 Hands: Floyd County Potters, Virginia

Bonjour de France! A French Family Day

PRIMED: Westmont Senior Graduate Exhibition 2016

Joie de Vivre: Tri-County Juried Exhibition

Summer Exhibition: Women Sculptors

 
2014-2015 Season

5x5: Celebrating Five Years – Exhibition and Online Auction

Byron Temple & Mary Law: A Continuing Legacy in Clay

ArtWatch 2014: Young Careers – SB to Greater LA

Chakaia Booker

William Castellana: South Williamsburg Street Portraits

Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection

Rembrandt and the Jews: A Symposium

Maker's Dozen: Senior Art Exhibition 2015

VITAL: Tri-County Juried Exhibition

 
2013-2014 Season

Invisible Realms: Encountering the Sacred

QU4RTETS

Impulse and Connoisseurship: Selections from the Forde Collection

Walking in the Spirit: American Visionary Artists

SPECIAL EVENT – American Family Folk Festival

34°26'59.33"N, 119°39'43.29"W: Senior Exhibition

Made You Look: Annual Tri-County Juried Exhibition

 
2012-2013 Season

Jan Albert Fürst Kolstad: Prints

Brad Howe: Sculpture Garden

Journeys: Westmont Alumni Artists' Invitational

Dreamkeepers: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Artists

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: The Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Collection in Context

12 Speed: Senior Exhibition

Confluence: Tri-County Juried Show

 
2011-2012 Season

Eric and Heather ChanSchatz: Universal Platform

Jenchi Wu Sculpture Garden

Voskuyl Library Exhibitions Fall 2011:

Chumash Artifacts: Selections from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Chumash Sacred Sites: Photographs by Robert Frear
5X5: An Invitational

Continua in Light: Video Installation by Cheryl Calleri and Thekla Hammond

Mexican Prints: Selections from the Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia Collection

Rafael Perea de la Cabada: Alien Heartland

SPECIAL EVENT - Dias de Mexico: A Family Festival

Westmont Senior Exhibition 2012

LIFT: 2012

 
2010-2011 Season

John Carlander: Highlights from a Thirty-Year Career

Paul Lindhard Sculpture Garden

Form and Function: Ceramic Artists in California

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Celebrating 25 Years

SPECIAL EVENT - The Discerning Eye: An Art Collector's Symposium

Westmont Senior Exhibition 2011

Voskuyl Library Exhibitions

FALL 2010 Christopher Clother: Drawings

SPRING 2011 An Art Connoisseur's Library: Gifts from Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree

 
2009-2010 Season

Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings

Rebrandt Lecture by Getty Associate Curator Anne Woollett

Photographs by Zwelethu Mthethwa

Dan Patterson Sculpture Garden

Gee's Bend Quilters: Selections from Paulson Press

American Viewing Stones: Selections from the James and Alice Greaves Collection

Kiyoshi Saito Prints

SPECIAL EVENT - Japanese Family Festival: A Celebration of Arts and Culture

Senior Exhibition 2010

Views and Visions: Travelers featuring Joshua Cave

Views and Visions prize winners announced

 
2008-2009 Season

Language Skills: New Work by Martha Ensign Johnson

Donald Davis Sculpture Garden

Form and Function: A Ceramics Invitational

Miriam - Virgin Mother: New Work by Bruce Herman

Dutch Prints from the Age of Reformation

Senior Art Exhibition 2009

Views and Visions: Interior Space featuring Cheyenne Ellis

 
2007-2008 Season

Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre

Ed Inks Sculpture Garden

Storytellers: Children's Book Illustrators

Faculty Exhibition

Senior Art Exhibition 2008

Views and Visions: The Shoe featuring Nathan Rohlander

 
2006-2007 Season

Cort Savage: Scattered Man and the Particle

Ken Bortalozzo: A Retrospective

Form and Function: A Ceramics Invitational

Harry Carmean: The Figurative Tradition

Senior Art Exhibition 2007

Views and Visions: The Still Life featuring John Morra

 
2005-2006 Season

Richard Diebenkorn: Unseen Santa Barbara Works

R. Kenton Nelson: One-Man Show

Faith, Culture, Calling: The Irvine Guest Artist Show featuring Lara Scott, Makoto Fujimura and Elmer Yazzie

Senior Art Exhibition 2006

Views and Visions: The Landscape featuring Cory Steffen

 
2004-2005 Season

The Florence Portfolio: Sacrifice

Painted Faith: Traditional New Mexican Devotional Images

Faculty Exhibition

Senior Art Exhibition 2005

The Power of WORD

 
2003-2004 Season

Excavating the Image: Biblical Subjects by Wayne Forte

Storytellers: Children's Book Illustrators

Bearing Witness: Recent Paintings by Susan Savage

Senior Art Exhibition 2004

Form and Function: A Ceramics Invitational

 
2002-2003 Season

Tim Lowly: Trouble the Water

Denise Adams: Of Sky and Land

The Art of Devotion: Photographs by Brad Elliott

Photographs and Artifacts: A Southwestern Chronicle featuring the photographs of Raymond Reid and Henry and Mary Weaver from the collection of Mark Hayden

Senior Art Exhibition 2003

About Face

 
2001-2002 Season

Freedom featuring new work by John Carlander