Events around Santa Barbara
With the return of a full-blown Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta in 2022 also comes a full-scale “Project Fiesta!”, the annual Santa Barbara Historical Museum exhibition that celebrates the …
Join us for the Wildling Museum's second annual free Summer Family Day on Sunday, August 14, 2022, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Visitors are invited to bring the whole family …
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 …
Suzanne Hudson discusses mid-century abstraction in relation to psychology and projective testing and examines the ways that the use of images in clinical settings conditioned audience encounters with art. Suzanne Hudson …
Visit SBMA for Third Thursday celebrating the newly-installed iconic portrait bust by artist Awol Erizku, Nefertiti – Miles Davis (Gold), now on view over the Visitor Services desk at the State …
Going Batty At The Nature Center Saturday Evenings thru Labor Day Weekend ( 8/20--7:35 PM; 8/27--7:25 PM; 9/3—7:20 PM) A living exhibit of our local bats and watch them come out …
Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art at Mid-Century Art historian Alexander Alberro explores the development of a research-based artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science, and technology in the …
SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season's sampling of art and music with a pop-up performance in the Museum's galleries. In September, enjoy a repertoire of music …
Art Matters Lecture with Chris Hallett, Ph.D. Professor of Roman Art with the Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley Julius Caesar spent a vast amount of money …
Traverse the sand dunes with Central Coast photographer Bob Canepa in the Wildling Museum’s new Valley Oak Gallery exhibition, Dunes: Visions of Light, Sand & Shadow, opening September 10, 2022. …
Parallel Stories with Patricio Ferrari and Forest Gander. Polyglot poet, translator and literary editor Patricio Ferrari, is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist and essayist, Forest Gander in a conversation …
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 …
Parallel Stories Layering, fragments, appropriation, cutting, higher cribbing, collage, and what artist Marshall Brown has called “creative miscegenation,” are all part of the crucible in which familiar themes are recast …
Art Matters Lecture with Jan Tichy Associate Professor, Department of Photography, Art & Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago The artist and educator, Associate Professor …
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Imagine and design a dream building by collaging your favorite details from structures across the …