Events around Santa Barbara
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s galleries. All ages are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Instructors will provide general guidance and all materials. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.
Enjoy Free Admission every second Sunday of the month for Tri-County residents (Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo). Join us during Free 2nd Sundays for stunning exhibitions, enriching programs, and a welcoming museum experience. Bilingual Storytime and Art Making for Children ages 3 – 5 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Studio Sunday 12 – …
Hailed for their talent and charm, the Formosa Quartet has sustained a career of innovation, storytelling, and advocacy since winning the 1st Prize and Amadeus Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. This performance will include J.S. Bach: Four Contrapuncti from "The Art of Fugue", A Formosa Quartet Set, Schubert: String Quartet No. …
This 45-minute drop-in meditation session is led by Vivian Valentin, PhD, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Lead Mindfulness Facilitator of Kind Mind. Beginners welcome. First come, first seated (limited to 20 participants).
As part of the programming for Proscenium: Elliot Hundley and By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA, exhibiting artist Elliott Hundley will join James Glisson, SBMA Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art, in conversation.
Luke Roberts, Professor of Japanese History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a lecture on the newly displayed promised gift of a Japanese suit of armor and the stories of Yūki Hideyasu, the man said to be its owner. He was the eldest surviving son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of Japan …
All are welcome to attend A Look Through Time, representing the culmination of the SBCC Fashion Club’s year of making/blending together history, sustainability, and student creativity. The fashion show will open with designs from local businesses and designers, paying tribute to Santa Barbara's fashion roots, before transitioning to student work illustrating the future of style. …
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 …
Based on her celebrated book Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back Into Your Work and Life, inspirational speaker and award-winning author, Tania Katan, shares insights on how to infuse everyday life and work with imagination, humor, and joy—even in the most unexpected places.
Genre-defying, unconventional, acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem returns to SBMA to read and discuss his latest book of astute, often idiosyncratic responses to works of art, Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture. In the book, Lethem gathers his writings on art, many published in catalogs, monographs, or exhibition materials, into a sometimes lyrical, audacious, whimsical, …
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board presents Art of the Table! Designers of local and national acclaim will create dramatic and imaginative tablescapes inspired from the Museum’s permanent collection. Meet the designers and delight in their artistry. Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres while supporting the Museum. Sponsorship opportunities available now. Individual tickets will …
Vian Sora and James Glisson, SBMA Chief Curator, will have a conversation about her artwork and her turn in 2017 to the abstract painting for which she has become so well known. She grew up in Baghdad, Iraq in a family of art dealers and auctioneers at the center of the Iraqi artworld but then …
Part 1: Solitude, Seers, and Painting the Inside with Tony de los Reyes and Brendan Constantine This FREE two-part series with artist Tony de los Reyes and poets Brendan Constantine and Forrest Gander will explore the unstable, hidden elements within the sublime, what they meant to artists and poets in the 19th-century how they continue …
June 29, Part 2: The Bordered Self and the Slow Grief of Time with Tony de los Reyes Forrest Gander This two-part series with artist Tony de los Reyes and poets Brendan Constantine and Forrest Gander will explore the unstable, hidden elements within the sublime, what they meant to artists and poets in the 19th-century …
“Searing…delves deeply into the history and politics of Kurdistan.” –The New York Times A war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative award-winning film shot in part by legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler. It's all in how you define …