Ongoing

Winter After-School Multimedia Class

Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of birds and trees crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations and inspire both individual and collaborative creations.

Ages: 5 – 12

Instructors: Nicola Ghersen + Jason Summers

Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.

Location: Ridley-Tree Education Center

$150/6 weeks SBMA Members
$200/6 weeks Non-Members

Winter After-School Multimedia Class

Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of birds and trees crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations and inspire both individual and collaborative creations.

Ages: 5 – 12

Instructors: Nicola Ghersen + Jason Summers

Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.

Location: Ridley-Tree Education Center

$150/6 weeks SBMA Members
$200/6 weeks Non-Members

From Discard to Discord

UCSB Library is pleased to present these works by Johnny Onionseed, MFA candidate in UCSB's Department of Art.

Fitness Swimming for All Levels

Swim for Fitness classes begin at SBCC: Improve your fitness level and technique through swimming at Los Banos Pool. Instructor: Sally Saenger

CEC’s Climate Stewards Certification Course

Graduates of the Community Environmental Council's Climate Stewards certification program are equipped to play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis in their community – and make a positive impact throughout the Central Coast.

Fitness Swimming for All Levels

Swim for Fitness classes begin at SBCC: Improve your technique and fitness level by swimming at Los Banos Pool. Instructor: Sally Saenger

The Lure of Lighthouses & Dancing Waves Photographs by Dan Merkel

SBMM) presents The Lure of Lighthouses & Dancing Waves, an exhibit featuring more than 35 photographs of lighthouses and waves by the renowned and Emmy Award-winning surfing photographer and videographer Dan Merkel. The lighthouse photographs include images of lighthouses from near and far—from Cape Elizabeth and Cape Hatteras on the East Coast and Point Loma and Point Pinos on the West to Portugal and Australia. The images are accompanied by Dan’s breath-taking photos capturing waves throughout the world. Beginning on Thursday, January 26, the exhibit will be on view in SBMM’s Gallery and Munger Theater through August 27, 2023.

The Good Good Show

The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians working today!

The Good Good Show

The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians working today!

Chalk Art at SBIFF This Weekend

The Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara, Sunrise-Santa Barbara, UCSB Environmental Affairs Board and 350 Santa Barbara, are planning a Chalk Art Action with Elders and Youth, in support of the Green New Deal at the Fiesta 5 Theater, 916 State Street, and Metro 4 Theater, 618 State Street, on Saturday and Sunday February 11 and 12, from 12:00 noon until 3:00 PM during the 2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).

Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution

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 Joan Tanner’s unorthodox use of materials and inspired by Nash’s original composition first performed with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, these young artists explore the idea of transformation, both personal and collective, bringing word and music together in this exuberant community-sourced celebration of the expressive and empathetic power of art.

Studio Sunday

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 February, free draw in black marker on watercolor paper then dab brilliant shades of dry tempera paint through mesh to add color, inspired by the drawings of Joan Tanner.

Studio Sunday

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 February, free draw in black marker on watercolor paper then dab brilliant shades of dry tempera paint through mesh to add color, inspired by the drawings of Joan Tanner.

Women in the Achaemenid Empire of Ancient Persia

Western stereotypes of Ancient Persia often focus on exotic harems and decadent court life. Professor John Lee, History Dept, UCSB, will tell us what women's lives were really like in 500 BCE, with their economic, polical, and social power!

Free Winter Family Day at the Wildling Museum

The Wildling Museum is pleased to invite the public to the first winter edition of its popular free Family Day event, which returns on Sunday, February 12, 2023, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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