Edo Pop: Woodblock Prints and Popular Culture in Premodern Japan

Art Matters Lecture with Matthew Welch, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Art. With their crisp outlines, unmodulated colors, and surprising vantage points, Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) from the 18th and 19th centuries seem as fresh and captivating today as when they were produced. Sensuality, fashion, decadent entertainments and urban pastimes all reflect

$10 – $15

Making Art and Living the Authentic Life

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

As part of programming for Inside/Outside (on view until February 18), an exhibition of recent contemporary acquisitions, Prof. Caroline Arruda will give a talk that combines philosophy with art to think about how artists show us what a life well lived might look like. Contemporary culture sees artists as being authentic because many pursue their creative goals

$5 – $10

Contemplating Nature: Flowers, Gardens, and Self-Reflection in Chinese Painting

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

A special one-day lecture series. Expert art historians offer detailed glimpses into some of the many facets of the flower-and-bird genre in Chinese painting and reveal how these images of intimate nature can be thresholds to worlds rich with beauty and private emotions.

$20

Parallel Stories – Seeing From the Rupture: A Reading and Conversation with Jenny Xie

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

In this conversation, resonating with both the past and tradition exemplified in the exhibition Flowers on a River and with the distillation and duality explored in Inside/Outside, Jenny Xie opens up, as US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera described, “multiple terrains of seeing.” With longing and memory, nuance and subtlety, the “anxiety of bilingualism,” and the unknowability of

$5 – $10

Opening Event for California Dreaming: Coming of Age in America’s Other Heartland

UCSB Library / Instruction & Training 1312 UCSB Library, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us for an event to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition of black and white photographs documenting the intergenerational upward mobility of young residents of Dixon, California. Trevor Auldridge Reveles, a PhD candidate in Sociology at UCSB will discuss the research behind this exhibition. Following his talk, Trevor will lead a tour

Free

Someday we’ll find it… An evening with Keith Mayerson

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

As part of, Inside/Outside, an exhibition of recent acquisitions, SBMA is pleased to invite Keith Mayerson for a conversation with James Glisson, Curator of Contemporary Art. Keith Mayerson has long swum in the sea of mass media that we exist in and reframing them by painting them, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art recently acquired

$5 – $10

Sip & Paint at Casa del Herrero

No painting experience? No worries, we're just here to have fun and throw some paint around! Danielle’s easy, step-by-step instruction and assistance will be available to all attendees throughout the program. In this full-sensory sip & paint workshop, attendees will create an abstract painting and taste several wine varietals from Crush It Wine Education during

$80

“The Doors Unhinged”: John Densmore in Conversation with Andrew Winer

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

Beloved by artists across the decades for his fierce, uncompromising dedication to art, John Densmore occupies a rarified space in pop culture. His musicianship landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His writing consistently earns accolades and has appeared in a range of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. As his friend

$5 – $10

The Many Colors of Afro Asia

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

Art Matters Lecture with Joan Kee, Professor of Art History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor How might we think about art and its histories from the perspective of a “global majority”? Spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, Joan Kee looks at the relationships that formed between Black and Asian artists at critical historical junctures—including

$10 – $15

Gather and Graft: An Arts Workshop

UCSB Library, Room 1539, the "Fish Bowl". Space is limited. Sign up for the Workshop in advance. Light refreshments will be served. Join us for a free art making workshop at the Library in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2024 and the Art, Design, and Architecture (AD&A) Museum's new exhibition "A Box of One's Own: Women

Free

Public Art and Campus Placemaking: Recentering the Artist in Communities of Practice

UCSB Library is pleased to present Kim Yasuda (Art) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2024.Through her own place-based, public research and teaching, and drawing on the UCSB Reads 2024 book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, Yasuda makes a compelling case for the untapped potential of the arts to

Free

Paint at Paseo Nuevo

Paseo Nuevo 651 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara

Every first Thursday of the month come enjoy a free 90-minute painting class at the Paseo Nuevo! As a part of Downtown Santa Barbara 1st Thursday Art Walk, Paint at Paseo is a 90-minute painting class provided by artists at MCASB. Join Alisha, a Santa Maria-based artist who loves to teach others how to paint

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