SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season’s sampling of art and music with pop-up performances in the Museum’s galleries, inspired by SBMA’s collection and special exhibitions or other topical themes.

Art Matters Lecture with Harmon Siegel, Ph.D. Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows Impressionism has, from the beginning, been seen as an art of nature. Today, however, in the moment we call the Anthropocene, when human projects have transformed every corner of the planet and threaten to make it uninhabitable, this commitment may seem hopelessly …

On Tuesday, December 6 we will host a panel comprised of Jeffrey Berkus, Dane Goodman, and Ginny Brush. They were all close with Barry and will be sharing personal anecdotes of their time spent with him, his family, and his art collection. This talk will take place on the Westmont Campus in Adams Center Room …

Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in this hands-on informal workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists. Each month explore a different medium—clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, paper—inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collection or special exhibitions. In December, print a winter scene in black ink on gold paper inspired by Winter Landscape (18th –19th …

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each …