Recent Press Releases

For all press inquiries, please contact Nathalia Morales-Evanks at nmorales@arts.ucla.edu.

2026

Mountain Spirits: Rice and Indigeneity in the Northern Luzon Highlands, Philippines (February 23, 2026 ) 

2025

Fowler Museum at UCLA Announces the Establishment of the Mary Jane Leland Textile Fund (October 22, 2025 ) 

Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts (May 4, 2025–January 11, 2026)

Ex-Change (June 1, 2025–November 2, 2025 ) 

Fowler Museum Returns 11 Objects of Deep Spiritual and Cultural Importance to the Larrakia People (May 20, 2025)

Construction, Occupation (May 4, 2025–January 11, 2026)

2024

Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art  (January 12–July 13, 2025)

Fowler Museum at UCLA Permanently Returns Culturally Significant Objects to Australia’s Warumungu Community (July 24, 2024)

Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation (Jul 21, 2024–Jan 12, 2025)

The Fowler Museum at UCLA Permanently Returns Objects to the Asante Kingdom in the Republic of Ghana (Feb 5, 2024)

I Will Meet You Yet Again: Contemporary Sikh Art (Jan 28–May 26, 2024)

2023

The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond (Oct 29, 2023–Jun 2, 2024)

Gala Porras-Kim: The weight of a patina of time (Jul 9–Oct 29, 2023)

Remain in Light: Visions of Homeland and Diaspora (Jun 11–Oct 15, 2023)

Janyak: Armenian Art of Knots and Loops (Apr 23, 2023–Feb 25, 2024)

Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance (Mar 26–Aug 27, 2023)

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders (Jan 29–May 14, 2023)

2022

Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags of Southern Ghana (Oct 23, 2022–Feb 12, 2023)

Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts (Jul 10–Nov 13, 2022)

The Nissan Foundation awards $848,000 in grants to nonprofits sharing unique cultural perspectives (Jun 14, 2022)

Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip (Feb 27–Sep 18, 2022)

‘How Do You See This World?’ The Art of Almighty God (Jan 16–Nov 20, 2022)

2021

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End (Dec 5, 2021–Jul 10, 2022)

The Map and the Territory: 100 Years of Collecting at UCLA (Jul 1–Oct 24, 2021)

Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s (Jul 1–Dec 5, 2021)

The Fowler Museum at UCLA Launches Engaging Lived Religion in the 21st Century Museum supported by a $1.38M Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. (Jan 25, 2021)

2019

Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World (Dec 8, 2019–May 31, 2020)

On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925 (Sep 8, 2019–Mar 8, 2020)

Fowler Appoints Amy Landau Director of Education and Interpretation (Aug 15, 2019)

Through Positive Eyes (Sep 15, 2019–Feb 16, 2020)

India’s Subterranean Stepwells: Photographs by Victoria Lautman (May 5–Oct 20, 2019)

Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection (Mar 17–Aug 18, 2019)

Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria (Mar 17–Aug 25, 2019)

The Fowler Museum at UCLA to Launch Curatorial Research Initiative on its African Art Collection Supported by a $600,000 Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Jan 30, 2019)

Inheritance: Recent Video Art from Africa (Feb 16–Jul 28, 2019)