Events around Santa Barbara
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Experiment with composition, color, and texture by creating a collage of boldly-hued and patterned squares on black paper inspired by Jesús Rafael Soto’s Homenaje al humano (1975). Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. Family Resource Center Free!
Enjoy Happy Hour with art, music, and friends at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara during Curated Cocktails -- a popular culture and libations series, presented in conjunction with Downtown Santa Barbara’s monthly 1st Thursdays. Located on the beautiful Paseo Nuevo Upper Arts Terrace in the heart of Santa Barbara, Curated Cocktails feature unique themes inspired by the current exhibitions. …
Acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Janna Ireland discusses her multi-faceted practice that includes intriguing staged tableaux of family life and an extensive and ongoing photographic interpretation of the architecture of Paul R. Williams, the renowned 20th-century Black architect who designed many of Southern California’s iconic buildings. Janna Ireland’s three photographs of Paul R. Williams’s Hillside Memorial …
In his fourth summer as SBMA artist-in-residence, Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Ted Nash shares insight and experience with a selection of Santa Barbara City College students and fellow musicians culminating in a free concert. This workshop focuses on using improvisation to guide the composition process and is inspired by works from the Museum’s contemporary art …
Luncheon from the Dallidet Gardens followed by a painting class with local artist Dixie Cavigli.
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 traditions of this beloved citywide celebration. Due to pandemic restrictions, the Museum presented limited Fiesta exhibits during the past three years, including one held entirely …
Art Matters Lecture This lecture will review some works—paintings, objects, sculptures—by the great Catalan artist Joan Miró. Charles Palermo will offer readings of works in the hope of showing how Miró implies movement and scale in his works. The result is fictional worlds with their own sense of time and place, which nevertheless stand right …
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Play with patterns of repeated shapes by creating a print in white ink on boldly-hued paper, inspired by Bridget Riley’s Annul (1965). Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. Free
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 and enjoy free museum admission during event hours, a fairy visit and eco glitter tattoos by Parties and Paint by Kate from 1 - 3 …
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 August, experiment with mixing a limited palette of paints then creating an abstract composition on …
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 is an art historian and critic based in Los Angeles, where she is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of …
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 Street entrance and featuring the following free activities and offerings: • Free Museum admission, 5 – 8 pm • Music by DJ Darla Bea on …
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 to feed. Meet in front of the Nature Center for a talk and then watch them come out. A Nature Center Docent will make …
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 late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of …
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 from around the globe, inspired by SBMA’s current exhibition Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century. Free!