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
To Be Honest...[tbh] Tri-County Juried Exhibition
2022-2023 Season
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
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
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
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 Impressionsm 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