Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

Specialties

The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is named for the former Press-​Enterprise Newspaper co-​owners and longtime community leaders. Opening in October 2010, the Culver Center will feature exhibition, performance and retail space, a café, and an 80-​seat film and video screening room on the ground floor.

History

Established in 2010.

Opening in October 2010, The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts will be an interactive art facility housed in the renovated Rouse Building, a magnificent 1895 department store. The Culver Center will extend the vitality and community interactivity of UCR/​California Museum of Photography and Sweeney Art Gallery by providing new exhibition space; a new home for the Sweeney; an 80-​seat film and video screening room; an atrium gallery for installation, music, and performance under a magnificent 35 foot high naturally illuminated clerestory monitor; a public café; a new seismically protected home for the UCR/CMP’s world-​treasure Keystone-​Mast glass plate stereo collection, supported by a Federal Government’s Save America’s Tresures grant; and an advanced faculty and student laboratory for advanced research in the arts.

Meet the Manager

Tyler S.

Manager

Tyler Stallings is the Artistic Director for the Culver Center of the Arts and Director of the UC Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery.

Stallings was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, Calif. from 1999 to 2006. Prior to that, he was the director of programs at Huntington Beach Art Center and has also worked for the city of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department at the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park and in the Public Art Division. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1992 from the California Institute of the Arts.

In addition to leading the Sweeney Art Gallery, Stallings plays a significant role in the development of the new UCR ARTSblock.

His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art and popular culture, with a special emphasis on the exploration of identity, technology and urban culture. Most of his exhibitions have been accompanied by major catalogues.