Courtesy photo.
Thursday, July 6, 5:30 – 7 pm
The Aural Border: Listening Across the California-Mexico Line
Josh Kun
In this engaging multimedia talk, MacArthur Fellow author and University of Southern California Professor Josh Kun takes us on a musical and sonic tour of the California-Mexico borderlands. From the tourist booms of the early 1900s to the rock and roll booms of the 1960s, from Herb Alpert and Woody Guthrie to contemporary electronic music and narco-ballads, and from border sound art to border radio, Kun complements the exhibition You Are Going On A Trip with a listening expedition that follows inter-California frequencies from Tijuana to Los Angeles and back again. After the lecture, travel upstairs to the galleries to see the exhibition and talk further over tequila, inspired by theTijuana Brass. Cash bar
Josh Kun. Courtesy photo
Free
Location:
Mary Craig Auditorium
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
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And don’t miss (during the same evening)…
Thursday, July 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Family 1st Thursday
Bring the whole family to enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center, located across from the Museum Cafe on the Lower Level. Museum Teaching Artists are available to assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects. Afterwards, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.
In July, create abstract textured block prints by hand, applying ink onto scratch-foam plates, inspired by Rufino Tamayo’s Personage in a Cave (1964).
Free
Location:
Family Resource Center
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara