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.

Become a certified UC Climate Steward and play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis in your community.

Family-to-Family is a free, eight-session education program for family members of adults living with a mental health disorder and is designed to help family members understand and support their loved one while maintaining their own well-being.

Fifty exciting works of photographic art are on display at the Goleta Library in October, 2022. 

While the monarchs are en route to the Ellwood Mesa Monarch Butterfly Grove, butterflies of a different sort return to Paradise Found, October 21st through November 2nd.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Carla Morrison on Thursday, October 27th at 8:00 pm at Campbell Hall.

Join us for this FREE* webinar led by Dr. Dimitris Dimitriou and Dr. Sunny Kim. In this 90-minute seminar, you will learn how to embed cultural diversity into daily practice.

Join us on Friday, October 28th, at 3:30pm at UCSB for a discussion with Professor Mona Oraby (Howard University) about her new book, A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor. Dr. Oraby will discuss her book in conversation with Professors Lisa Sideris (UCSB) and Joseph Blankholm (UCSB).