Makers Market is the best outdoor market that Santa Barbara has to offer. Meet the artisans in person. This market offers unique one of a kind items in an outdoor European style setting.

The Preston Morton Collection, which forms the core of American art at SBMA, was gifted in 1961 upon the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Museum’s founding. In so doing, Preston Morton ensured that SBMA could boast one of the most comprehensive overviews of American art from the 18th to the mid-20th century among mid-sized institutions. The timing of the gift was significant, representing a corrective to the European bias of midcentury canonical modernism and a proud reassertion of home-grown American art.

This selection of small format paintings is a reminder of the breadth of the Museum’s holdings in this area. Oil and brush conjure the illusion of near and far persuasively, from the close perspective of still life, to the life-size proportions of bust portraiture, to sublime expanses of land and sky. Whether within hand’s reach or at an immeasurable distance, both types of visual experience are captured within the confines of a canvas no more than 15 inches in diameter.

Artists represented include William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Eakins, Walter Gay, George Inness, George Luks, Jervis McEntee, John Frederick Peto, Levi Wells Prentice, Edward Henry Potthast.

Image: William Merritt Chase, "Children on the Beach" (detail), 1894. Oil on board. SBMA, Bequest of Margaret Mallory.

Create abstracted landscapes, portraits, and dreamscapes in gouache, acrylic, watercolor, ink, and graphite, inspired by "In the Meanwhile...Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art."

Help La Cumbre Plaza in supporting our local community food banks from coast-to-coast. Working with our partner properties throughout the country, we’re aiming to help serve a million meals to those in need.

We’ve partnered with FOOD BANK SANTA BARBARA to host a monetary collection drive.

We thank you for your generosity.

Join our team: MILLION MEALS CHALLENGE LA CUMBRE PLAZA at https://donate.foodbanksbc.org/give/t311203/#!/donation/checkout .

Although the Santa Barbara Zoo's popular annual Halloween event, Boo at the Zoo, is canceled this year due to COVID-19, guests can still get into the spirit with Spooky Zoo, an outdoor Halloween spell-ebration from October 16–31! 

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Cultivating Emotional Balance through Mindfulness with Radhule Weininger, PhD, psychologist and meditation teacher

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Mindful Self-Compassion Meditation with Anahita Holden and Hattie Bluestone