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Celebrate World Art Day (April 15) with MCASB and #MuseumFromHome

by Community Contributor • April 15, 2020 • Comments Off

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Celebrate World Art Day with MCASB and #MuseumFromHome

Dear Friends,

We hope that this email finds you, and your loved ones, safe and healthy, practicing social distancing, and finding creative ways to support yourselves at home during this time.

Today, April 15, is World Art Day, and while we wish we were celebrating together, instead we have put together a list of art resources to keep you engaged and inspired. We look forward to welcoming you back to the Museum when we reopen!

All our best,
The MCASB Team

Current Exhibition
Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In

If you didn’t have an opportunity to visit our current exhibition, Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In prior to our temporary closure we invite you to visit our website to see the Installation Views. Head over to the exhibition page, scroll to the bottom, and click on the Gallery tab. To read more about Gaignard and her practice download the Gallery Guide.

More on Genevieve Gaignard:

Recently Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In, was featured in the LA Times Essential Arts section, as well as on Art of Social Distancing, an Instagram account dedicated to art exhibitions impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Listen to Gaignard discuss her installation ‘Black is Beautiful’, installed at Crystal Bridges in 2019, and currently on view at MCASB.
Check out There’s Something About Genevieve in Eleven Magazine’s March Issue.
Read this New Yorker article, An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines, about Gaignard’s work.

MCASB goes virtual

Unable to attend last week’s virtual talk by MCASB’s Associate Curator Alexandra Terry, hosted by the Santa Barbara Public Library? It is available to watch here, along with the Library’s many other virtual resources for readers of all ages.

MCASB is on YouTube! Visit our channel to watch walkthroughs of previous exhibitions, talks with local experts, and panel discussions featuring artists and curators.

Make sure that you are following us on Instagram and Facebook for updates on more MCASB online resources!

Online resources for all ages from local friends + partners

The Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture has paused its traditional calendar of local listings to share the amazing resources and experiences that Santa Barbara County’s creatives are offering online. If you have your own virtual event to share with them click here.

Watch a virtual tour of In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
View UCSB’s AD&A Museum’s current exhibitions on their website.
MOXI at Home provides daily activities for kids inspired by MOXI’s regular programming.
Art From Scrap/Explore Ecology is offering virtual art workshops on Zoom. Follow them on Instagram or join their newsletter for more information.
Emily Murray of FoundCreate usually hosts children’s art workshops at the CAW but for now, you can follow along with her instructional videos here.

For your listening pleasure

You may already know about e-flux Announcements and e-flux Journal, but did you know that e-flux also has a podcast? Roughly an hour-long, they feature conversations with some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today.

Our friends at KCRW have a plethora of interesting podcasts, but our favorites are Art Talk and Design and Architecture.
One half of your favorite Broad City duo, Abbi Jacobson, released her podcast A Piece of Work in 2017 to talk about “everything you want to know about modern art but were afraid to ask.”
What happens when we spend time getting to know a single artwork in detail? Find out with this great listen from Tate.
On the Getty’s Art + Ideas podcast Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work.

Tired of Netflix?

Art21 is the “go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time.” For a treasure trove of videos featuring your favorite contemporary artists visit their website or check out their YouTube page.

Watch past programs from the Hammer Museum on their website including Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reading her recent work this past February.
We loved this Instagram Live conversation between Torkwase Dyson and Hans Ulrich Obrist speaking about distance, ancestorship, and her framework of Black Compositional Thought.
The Tate’s weekly videos about art and artists from around the world include this interview with Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa who exhibited at MCASB in 2017 as part of Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 – Present
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark also posts weekly videos including this interview with MCASB exhibiting artist Cecily Brown.

Looking for new reading material?

Lum Art Zine features arts & culture in and around Santa Barbara and Ventura, California. Created collaboratively by local artists and writers, Lum Art Zine is committed to great writing and meaningful conversations about art.

Purchase catalogs from MCASB’s past exhibitions, including the Limited Edition Field Guide from Barry McGee: SB Mid Summer Intensive from our Online Shop.
For regional art news and articles, we are subscribed to Carla, Cultured Magazine, and Artillery.
One of our favorite local spots to browse for new, used, and potentially out-of-print Art Monographs and art books is The Book Den. During this time they will send orders straight to your door with FREE SHIPPING! Visit their website to see what is on their shelves now.
While Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair was canceled for this year, you can explore their website and the 350+ exhibitor pages, as well as a variety of new programs uniquely formatted for online viewing.

If you are an artist who has been financially impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic visit the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture website for Emergency and Relief Funding resources.