Events around Santa Barbara
UCSB Library and Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) invite residents of Santa Barbara's Eastside neighborhood and surrounding communities to a local history showcase presented at the SBPL Eastside Branch. As part of …
Join WARES! exhibition artist Seth Bogart for a casual conversation, hands-on demo, and unique opportunity to create with clay and cardboard. Pinch, roll, repurpose, twist, glue, and build with the help from …
August 20, 2023 at 1pm DANA’s Monthly Sunday Speaker Collen Beck Presents Who counted as Family? What godparenting meant for the Danas.  Colleen Beck will present her research on …
Join us for a Native Skate day featuring APACHE skateboard pro-skaters. A free fun day for all. Free food, art, culture, swag, and prizes. We will have a DJ featuring …
Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and deaf artist and advocate Antoine Hunter is joined by members of the Urban Jazz Dance Company, which he founded, in an imaginative, joyful celebration to accompany …
Art Matters Lecture with Kenneth Lapatin, Ph.D. Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum This talk examines exquisite engraved cameos and intaglios cut by the gem-carver of the Roman emperor Augustus …
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Create a two-dimensional version of Woody De Othello’s "Twice Over" (2023) in organic shapes of …
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 …
Clarence Mattei - Portrait of a Community: A talk by Erin Graffy about the artist For over forty years Clarence R. Mattei captured in pen and pencil, charcoal, and oil …
Artist Anthony Sonnenberg will explore expressions of power through decoration within various cultures. Opposing a denigrative association with the merely frivolous, decoration throughout history has performed a meaningful task of …
Digital Handcraft is an educational exhibition that will introduce visitors to the world of 3D printing. The show features a variety of examples that demonstrate key concepts and principles within …
All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in "The Private Universe of James Castle: Drawings from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and …
Join WARES! exhibition artist Anthony Sonnenberg for a casual conversation, hands-on demo, and unique opportunity to create with clay and cardboard. Pinch, roll, repurpose, twist, glue, and build cross-cultural crowns with the …
DANA’s Monthly Sunday Speaker Jim Corridan Presents: The Voyages of William Goodwin Dana September 17, 2023 at 1pm Departing in 1816 at the age of 19, William Dana Circumnavigated …
Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of animals crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations …