Events around Santa Barbara
This free concert features student composers, performers, and writers from a workshop led by Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Ted Nash who joins them on stage. Responding in part to artist …
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 …
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 …
Join us for our monthly Sunday Speaker at DANA Adobe & Cultural Center, this month we will be hosting local DANA docent Helen Daurio- Dubois. She will be presenting on …
SBMA is excited to welcome the Catalyst Quartet back for their 7th performance. Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with …
Please join us Thursday night, February 23 at 4:30 pm, for a lecture at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of art, hosted by G. James Daichendt. G. James Daichendt is an …
The Santa Barbara Antique, Decorative Arts, & Vintage Show & Sale FEBRUARY 24, 25 & 26, 2023 FRI: 11-6 SAT: 11-6 SUN: 11-4 Earl Warren Showgrounds at 3400 Calle …
In 1836 Ingres ordered an artistic encounter between two Creoles who had both been born in Saint-Domingue, renamed Haiti. From Rome, the fifty-six-year-old painter exerted his power over an “homme …
Formed in 1995, the Austin, Texas-based Miró Quartet, is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. They won first …
Known for its “voluptuous tapestry of sound, vocal purity and radiant sonorities,” the Quire of Voyces remains steadfastly dedicated to its mission of presenting and recording world-class, transcendent interpretations of …
The exhibition shares the compelling story of activist Dolores Huerta and the farmworkers movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring text in English and Spanish, it explores Huerta’s public life …
Inspired by the artistic collaboration of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the SBMA exhibition Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz, this series explores what happens in fiction and …
A talk by Vince Burns and Stephen Bates In 1875, the decomposed corpse of John Norton was uncovered in a shallow grave at Rincon Point. Learn the details of the …
We hope you can join us for our Spring Bloom Festival, where we celebrate the arrival of warmer weather and the beauty of the great outdoors! Enjoy a free BBQ …
Curator’s Choice Lecture with Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University It is rare for one artist to play a key role …