Fall Reception

The leaves are turning, and so is a new season at UCR ARTS. Join us for our Fall Reception on Saturday, October 10, from 6–8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Step into five new exhibitions, enjoy light refreshments, and spend the evening wandering through galleries full of new work and good conversation.

Here’s what we’re celebrating:

Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025 — the first-ever retrospective of McCulloh’s nearly four-decade career, tracing his restless curiosity across decades of singular, boundary-pushing work.

A Solid Sense of Who You Are: Selections from the Museum Collection — pulled from McCulloh’s own essays, interests, and friendships, with works by Lewis deSoto, Sant Khalsa, Thomas McGovern, Ann Summa, and more.

The Great Picture: Revisiting the Legacy Project — 20 years after six artists—Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada—turned a derelict jet hangar into the world’s largest camera, this show revisits the legendary photo with a brand-new interactive, walk-through digital re-creation.

Won Ju Lim: The Vast Structure of Recollection — sprawling, Proust-inspired installations that turn the experience of memory into something you can physically walk through, filling the Coil Atrium.

Heather Cleary: Thresholds — one striking, strange new photograph, dreamed up during a sleepless night of nature documentaries and brought to life with miniature clay figures.

Bring friends, bring family, or just yourself, and celebrate the arts and fall with UCR ARTS!

This program is supported by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC Riverside, and by the City of Riverside.