The Tamayo Mobile

Local Isla Vista teens and pre-teens worked with UCSB College of Creative Studies professors Bob DeBris and Robyn Bell to transform a shipping container from The Container Project in response to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's exhibition entitled Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted. The 'Tamayo Mobile' as it has fondly been dubbed, visited the Isla Vista Teen Center where students had the chance to respond to the artwork of Tamayo, as well as make work of their own to add to the exhibition.

Isla Vista Extreme: Bakery Makeover

In a continued effort to foster local campus-community partnerships through project-based curricula and demonstration, UCIRA Co-Director and Art Professor, Kim Yasuda targeted Isla Vista Bakery as the site for aesthetic study and renovation by UCSB undergraduates in this current quarter’s spatial studies course. Team-taught with adjunct faculty artist, David Jurist, students are working in coordination with the Isla Vista Redevelopment Agency as part of its “Façade Improvement Program”. The class members will provide physical enhancements to the store fron, coupling student creativity and labor with redevelopment matching funds up to $15,000.

As a continuation of “Open Container” project series, this current course explores potential venue production and intervention through art, taking on the investigations of real spaces outside of the UCSB classroom/campus. This particular storefront renovation project, currently in its conceptual design planning stages, will involve a range of strategies including, frontage/façade and patio enhancements, furniture design + fabrication, graphics, interior design, programmable art exhibition space, menu redesign, landscaping and potential innovative sustainable business practices to make IV Bakery the hippest, hot spot in town.