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! 

Hospice of Santa Barbara's Community Education Speaker Series presents Roshi Joan Halifax on Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 6:00 pm, FREE to the community.

Join the community virtually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month!

“Recognizing Spiritual Materialism”
Recognizing Spiritual Materialism - Trained to be doers and achievers, many modern day meditators seek to experience heightened states of joy, clarity, and enlightenment as part of an agenda for spiritual self improvement when engaging with the Buddha's teachings. But when does spiritual practice stray into artifice and grasping, and how does one cultivate and strengthen an awakened heart and the genuine liberation of the mind?

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is proud to announce the Santa Barbara premiere of SHE IS THE OCEAN from Inna Blokhina, acclaimed director of the award-winning film On the Wave. SHE IS THE OCEAN follows nine women from across the globe and across all ages, who share a deep and profound love of the ocean. In making this unique documentary, Blokhina selected these women, ranging from the ages of twelve to eighty-three, to create a portrait of what could be a metaphor for one woman’s ocean life through all her ages, and the film will appeal to surf enthusiasts around the world!

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Healing Breathwork, Loving Kindness, Sound and Body Meditation with Renee Golan

For 30 years, comedian Kathleen Madigan has been touring 250 nights on the road and squeezing in hour-long filmed specials and performances on every late-night show ever made. From over 40 appearances on the late-night shows to recently riding around with Jerry Seinfeld in his NETFLIX series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” Madigan is still having a blast and selling out theaters across the country. Madigan was recently asked if her career was planned, “Ah, no. It’s hard to believe this whole thing started out as a reason to drink and has lasted 30 years. What a great drinking accident.”

Her most recent special “Bothering Jesus” is her fifth hour long standup special and will be her third special to be available on NETFLIX. Her album of the “Bothering Jesus” special, was the highest selling comedy album and most played comedy album on streaming services since 2014.