REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Lead Exhibition Designer
Arturo Heredia Soto is a fine artist, exhibition designer and art handler. He holds a B.F.A. in photography and painting from the National School of Fine Art in Mexico City and has completed M.F.A. coursework in Image Studies at the Graduate School of Art and Design, also in Mexico City. Most recently, he was the exhibition designer for the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture and was the head preparator and exhibition designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, prior to their closure. Arturo is also co-founder and art director of Lum Art Magazine. In his new role as Lead Exhibition Designer at the AD&A Museum, Arturo will manage the Exhibition Team and will supervise all exhibition and graphic design at the museum.
UCSB professor David Gebhard (1927-1996) founded the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) in 1963. Today it is one of the largest architectural archives in North America with over 250 collections and close to 2 million drawings, papers, photographs, models, decorative objects, and furniture. The focus of the collection is the design and architecture of southern California from the late 19th through the early 21st century.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of the UCSB Art
Gabriel Ritter is Director of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum and Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture. Dr. Ritter holds a Doctorate in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also earned his Master's in Art History. While academically Dr. Ritter specializes in avant-garde visual art practices of modern/contemporary Japan, for the past decade he has been a curator of contemporary art within a collecting, encyclopedic museum context at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. There, Dr. Ritter was responsible for growing and diversifying the permanent collections, with increased focus on female artists, artists of color, and those who openly identify as LGBTQI+. In addition to his research, teaching, and curating, Dr. Ritter is focused on growing the AD&A Museum into a vital part of student and faculty life, as well as the cultural life of those in the surrounding Goleta and Santa Barbara communities.
Job Titles:
- Murray Roman Curatorial Fellow Internship Program Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Murray Roman Curatorial Fellow Internship Program Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Digital Communications and Web Management Assistant
Silvia Perea is an architect (M.Arch), Ph.D., and Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection at the AD&A Museum (University of California, Santa Barbara). Dr. Perea holds a Doctorate in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and a Certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University. Throughout her career, Dr. Perea has combined teaching and publishing with the organization of exhibitions. Dr. Perea has taught at international universities, including Columbia (NY), CEPT (India), Blas Pascal (Argentina), and the UPM (Spain). She has also published extensively, working as an editor of Arquitectura Viva, and contributing articles to magazines such as Domus, Architectural Record, Potlatch, Minerva, and Arquitectura, among others. As a curator, Dr. Perea has organized over a dozen exhibitions of art and architecture for American and European museums. Her curatorial practice advocates the integration of both disciplines as a means to enrich their respective discourses and perspectives.
Job Titles:
- Collections Manager
- Registrar
A native Californian, Susan have over 20 years experience in Museum registration and collections Management. Receiving an MA from the University of New Mexico in Art Education, she began her career in 1990 by moving to Miami to join the Wolfsonian Foundation; Susan then moved to the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami in 1993. Feeling homesick, in 2001, she applied for the position she now holds at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum.
Her career has taken her all over the United States as a courier for travelling exhibitions as well as to Europe. She has also been involved in three AAM reaccreditation reviews and began the process of digitization of the museum's Fine Art collection on the museum website.
Susan is an avowed animal lover and wanted to be a vet but after difficulty in math and science opted for an art career. But as the museum's registrar, she does get to keep all art objects happy and healthy!