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

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

Continuing its celebration of coastal living, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is thrilled to present The Peaceful Sea: Paintings by Kevin A. Short, an exhibition featuring more than 30 seascapes and ocean-themed landscapes by the renowned contemporary painter and Santa Barbara native. Thanks to the generous support of Mimi Michaelis, June G. Outhwaite Charitable Trust, Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, and American Rivera Bank, the presentation will be on view to the public from August 11 through December 31, 2022.

AHA! is offering after-school programs this Fall in person. Our programs are a fun place for teens to connect and make friends while developing social emotional and leadership skills. Your teen can register by filling out an application at: https://ahasb.org/

We are now enrolling for a variety of after-school programs!

Art historian Alexander Alberro explores the development of a research-based artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science, and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Alberro will address how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of art spectators.

Alexander Alberro is a professor of art history at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. His writings have been published in a broad range of journals and exhibition catalogues, and he is the author of "Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity" (MIT, 2004) and "Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-twentieth Century Latin American Art" (Chicago, 2017). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Currently, Professor Alberro is completing a book-length study of the newly-formed transnational web of individuals and institutions that has in the past three decades fundamentally changed the nature of contemporary art, exploring not only what has led to this complex transformation but also the impact it has had on the current conditions of artistic practice.

Free Members and Students
$5 Non-Members

Join us as Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti takes you on a nine-month long musical journey spanning 300 years, diverse musical genres, some the region’s most sought after musicians and guest artists that comprise our 2022/23 70 anniversary season

SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season's sampling of art and music with a pop-up performance in the Museum's galleries. In September, enjoy a repertoire of music from around the globe, inspired by SBMA’s current exhibition "Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century."

Free!

Art Matters Lecture with Chris Hallett, Ph.D.
Professor of Roman Art with the Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

Julius Caesar spent a vast amount of money on building projects in the late 50s and early 40s BC, constructing an extension to the Roman Forum, a great Basilica in the Forum itself, and a temple to Venus. Because Caesar was assassinated with most of his building projects left unfinished—and with some of them not even started—his impact on the city of Rome, and the nature of the interventions he made, is today disputed. The new joint Danish-Italian excavations of Caesar’s Forum, now already underway, offers a quite exceptional opportunity for scholars to re-open this and other important questions about Caesar’s original intentions, and to offer a comprehensive re-evaluation of his legacy as a builder.

Mary Craig Auditorium

Free Students and Museum Circle Members
$10 SBMA Members
$15 Non-Members

Lobero LIVE presents Tab Benoit with special guest JD Simo on Friday, September 2, 2022 at 7:30 PM. Benoit is a GRAMMY® nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way – as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
https://www.lobero.org/events/tab-benoit/
$39 - $106

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