Snow Job (1970) Performance and Workshop

Snow is predicted to fall outside the AD&A Museum as part of a restaging of Bonnie Ora Sherk’s performance Snow Job (1970). Flavored snow cones will be given out and spectators are invited to enjoy themselves in a performance score writing workshop in the galleries. Formal attire is encouraged but not required.

Organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, this program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970, on view at the AD&A Museum through November 29.

Thank you to our program collaborators: Kona Ice of Santa Barbara, Performance Art Museum, and artists Marilyn Arsem. Special thanks to Bonnie Sherk Estate, Life Frames, Inc., and A Living Library, San Francisco.

Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances, to large scale, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance.  Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Arsem has also presented work in 30 countries, at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums, universities and conferences in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and Asia.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine.