ART STUDIO

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

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 other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.

Inspired by the exhibitions Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz and Out of Joint: Joan Tanner, students create collaborative and individual sculptures and assemblage works from unexpected materials and drawings using oil pastels, chalk, charcoal, and ink.

Combine materials and techniques to create mixed-media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, inspired by Lyonel Feininger/Andreas Feininger: The Modern Sea, The Modern City.

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Reimagine Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt’s Summertime (1894) in colored pencil by changing the season, time of day, or by adding additional animals to the composition. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials.

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 May, create a pinch pot from air dry clay. Draw animals and patterns into the clay, then finish with a watercolor wash, inspired by "Shallow Bowl with Pipal Leaves Fish Motif" (3500 -2500 BCE).

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 other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.

The May session is led by local poet, artist, and Poet/Teacher with California Poets in the Schools, Cie Gumucio.

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 June, create your own animal character and setting in watercolor and marker on a line drawing of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s color woodblock print "The Bark of a Fox" (1886).

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center.

Create a cityscape in oil pastel on bogus paper inspired by Henri Matisse’s Pont Saint-Michel (ca. 1901). Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. All free!

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Draw interior scenes in charcoal on found envelopes inspired by the exhibition "The Private Universe of James Castle: Drawings from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and James Castle Collection and Archive." Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

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 James Castle Collection and Archive." Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials.