Tag archives: Westmont Ridley Tree Museum

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art presents “Haptic Knowing,” a new exhibition showcasing five artists whose work explores touch not merely as a physical action, but as a form of inquiry and a way of thinking, learning and understanding the world. The exhibition runs through November 7. Derived from the Greek word haptesthai, meaning to […]

Westmont highlights the talent of regional artists in the 2026 Tri-County Juried Exhibition, Altered Realities, from May 21-June 20 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Los Angeles-based curator, author and film producer Andi Campognone served as this year’s juror, facing the challenging task of narrowing down 468 entries from 222 regional artists. Ultimately, she […]

Family, friends and art lovers all packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art to celebrate the 14 graduating art majors who presented their capstone projects in Reencounter on April 9. The exhibition, featuring a class of artists ready to make their mark on the world, will remain open through May 9. Near the museum […]

More than 100 people packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art on Feb. 24 to hear Dennis Doordan, an architectural and design historian, analyze Los Angeles architecture through photographs Ansel Adams took on assignment there in the 1940s. The talk, “Looking at Ansel Adams Looking at LA,” contrasted Adams’ iconic nature photos with those […]

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art offers a groundbreaking exhibition that reveals a little‑known chapter of America’s most celebrated photographer in Beyond the Wilderness: Ansel Adams in 1940s Los Angeles, from January 15 – March 28. The museum hosts a free, public, opening reception for the exhibition on Thursday, Jan. 15, from 4-6 pm.  While Adams has […]

About 70 art lovers braved the wet weather for the opening of Between Planes: Exploring Sculpture Through Print on Nov. 13 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The unique show examines prints made by sculptors, offering a glimpse into artistic thought process of an artist prior to creating a sculpture.  A highlight of the […]

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art explores artistic vision across two-dimensional and three-dimensional media in Between Planes: Exploring Sculpture Through Print from Nov. 13 to Dec. 20. There will be a free public opening reception on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 4-6 pm at the museum. “A sculpture and a print exist in two different planes; […]

Westmont’s talented art faculty, who inspire students to envision exciting, real-world possibilities for their own creative paths, offer an impressive range of works from their innovative careers in Lines of Inquiry: Westmont Art Faculty Exhibition Fall 2025 from Sept. 4-Nov. 1, in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The museum hosts a free, public opening […]

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art celebrates Judy L. Larson, who retired following 17 prolific years as museum director, on Thursday, July 10, from 4-6 pm at the museum.  The special celebration includes an exhibition featuring prominent objects from the collection acquired during Larson’s tenure. Major donors during Larson’s tenure included Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, Faith […]

Judy L. Larson arrived at Westmont in 2008, four months before the college broke ground for the Adams Center for the Visual Arts and the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. As the inaugural R. Anthony Askew professor of art and the director of the museum, she taught an art history course while organizing her first […]

Dozens of people packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum on May 15 to see Adam Belt’s selections for On the Edge and hear the winners of the Tri-County artist exhibition.  “This a very vibrant arts community – you can see all the support that you share for each other,” Belt said. “It was a privilege […]

Twelve graduating art majors will display their capstone art projects from April 3rd to May 3rd at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free public reception opens Twelvefold: Westmont College Graduate Exhibition 2025 on Thursday, April 3, from 4-6 pm. The exhibition offers diverse themes focused on identity, relationships, and place. The artists include […]

Bring the whole family to the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art for a day of fun, free activities with food, crafts, games, music and storytelling focused on our environment. “Living Earth: A Family Day of Exploration” – on Saturday, March 1, from 11 am to 4 pm – focuses on the immersive exhibition WILDLAND: Ethan […]

More than 30 members of the Oak Group, a collection of landscape artists passionate about nature and committed to preserving local lands, will each exhibit a painting in “The Oak Group Presents the Grace of the World” from Nov. 21- Dec. 21 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Many of the artists will take […]

There are only a few more days to see Night Visions: The Black Drawings of Duncan Simcoe, 2014-2024, which closes after Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. This expansive, mystical exhibition features the black drawings of Simcoe, a Southern California artist and former program chair of the College of Architecture, Visual […]

Alumnus Casey Underwood ’14 has returned to his alma mater to exhibit his diverse talents as an outdoor wildlife artist in “Fins and Feathers: The Art of Casey Underwood” from Aug. 29-Dec. 21 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art’s downstairs gallery. Underwood, an illustrator and outdoorsman living in southern Montana, has become one of […]

Duncan Simcoe, a Southern California artist and former chair of the College of Architecture, Visual Arts and Design at California Baptist University in Riverside, offers his signature limited-palette paintings on dark construction-grade tar paper in Night Visions: The Black Drawings of Duncan Simcoe, 2014-2024 from Aug. 29 to Nov. 9 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum […]

Experience 45 of the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art’s recent acquisitions at a stunning summer show. The exhibition features works by three dozen artists, including Americans Richard Artschwager, Laddie John Dill, and Louisiana Bendolph of the Gee’s Bend quilters, contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun, and numerous local artists.  New Acquisitions: Selections from the Modern and […]

Westmont alumna Ella Jennings (’23), education and outreach coordinator at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, shares her paintings of luminous interiors in an exhibition, Abide with Me, at the Fireside Gallery at Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, 909 N. La Cumbre, open from 10 am – 2 pm on weekdays.  “The everyday buildings we frequent […]

A large crowd gathered inside and out for the opening of the annual juried exhibition of local artists, “[TBH]…To Be Honest,” at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Los Angeles gallery owner Walter Maciel juried the exhibition of 45 works, selecting the winners for top cash prizes on May 16. The Tri-County Juried Exhibition is […]