May 2023 - November 2024

Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery

The California Nature Art Museum is pleased to announce its new 2023 site-specific installation featuring Northridge-based artist Elizabeth Criss, as well as work by glass artist Sari Scheer. Message in a Bottle, designed for the Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery, is on view from May 2023 through November 2024. This long-term installation marks the third iteration of the Museum’s tower installation program, which aims to highlight Southern California artists inspired by the environment and provides an indoor-outdoor art experience for Solvang visitors.

Criss’ proposal was selected from the Museum’s 2023 request for artist proposals focusing on environmental impacts on the ocean.

Request for Proposals - 2023 Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery Installation

Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery

The Wildling Museum is seeking proposals for its third annual Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery installation. Our 10-month-long 2023 installation will focus on our oceans with an underwater theme, and should explore an environmental topic or issue—whether climate change, plastic pollution, overfishing, or similar.

This opportunity is open to artists in Santa Barbra County, San Luis County, Ventura County, or Los Angeles County. Application deadline is March 1, 2023.

Ruben MislangMarch 1, 2023Tower Gallery, Artist Opportunity, competition

Portals & Pathways by Kerrie Smith

April 2022 - February 2023

Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery

The Wildling Museum is pleased to announce its new Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery installation, Portals & Pathways by Santa Barbara-based artist Kerrie Smith, on view April 2022 through February 2023.

Smith’s multisensory installation features flowing banners printed with Smith’s vivid abstract paintings inspired by daily walks along Santa Barbara’s More Mesa, interspersed with hand-stamped poetry and nature photography. Smith will continue to update the gallery with the changing seasons, transforming the space throughout 2022-2023 as part of the Wildling Museum’s inaugural artist-in-residence program for the Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery.

Past ExhibitRuben MislangFebruary 28, 2023Kerrie Smith, Tower Gallery, Installation

Holli Harmon: The Nature of Clouds

January 2021 - March 2022

Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery

The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature is kicking off 2021 with an invitation for the public to experience art from the outside-in during its ongoing public closure due to state and local Covid-19 public health mandates for indoor museums.

In the museum’s new Michele Kuelbs Tower Gallery installation, Holli Harmon: The Nature of Clouds, artist Holli Harmon’s immersive work centers around a Norfolk Island Pine tree floating beneath bright blue, cumulus cloud-filled skies. Large chandelier crystals hang suspended by invisible thread from ceiling to floor in a brilliant rain shower as plants are suspended throughout at varying heights.

Past ExhibitRuben MislangJanuary 26, 2021Holli Harmon, Tower Gallery

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