Since October 2021, UC Santa Barbara's library has been showcasing artistic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Movement in an exhibit called A Call To Action. The exhibit is a collection of photography, writing, audio, and digital graphics that were submitted to the community archives by students, staff, faculty, and the larger Santa Barbara community.
The responses to a time of protest and quarantine are both collective and individual, which the exhibit seeks to portray through the different artistic mediums and diverse voices.
Teaching and Learning Librarian Paige Sundstrom said, “For me personally, it is important to know how we are telling a story, who is telling the story, as well as having physical artifacts to represent this time uniquely and well.”