Writing in the Galleries

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.

Emerging Teen Spring Camp

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.

Family 1st Thursday

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.

Sketching in the Galleries

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.

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 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).

Writing in the Galleries

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.

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 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).

Family 1st Thursday

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!

Family 1st Thursday

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.

Sketching in the Galleries

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.

Family 1st Thursday

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 brightly-colored construction paper. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

Family Resource Center
Free

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