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SANTA BARBARA — While the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is temporarily closed due to response to COVID-19, the Museum is sharing exciting content on its website and social media accounts to continue to digitally engage the public and maintain its mission to integrate art into the lives of people through internationally recognized exhibitions and special programs, as well as the thoughtful presentation of its permanent collection.
Step-by-step instructional videos featured during Studio Sundays, SBMA’s free program where the public can participate in art projects inspired by exhibitions, can be found here: https://www.sbma.net/events/videolibrary/studiosundays. These videos from the series are a great resource for at-home art projects. Here you can learn how to make your own pieces inspired by SBMA’s past exhibition, The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art; and here you can recreate artwork by Alfredo Ramos Martínez, whose work was on view at SBMA in Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper.
More family-friendly, at-home art learning and making resources can be found on the Museum site: https://www.sbma.net/learn/athome
Other digital resources include the website’s Video Library, which contains past Curator’s Choice lectures, Parallel Stories, musical performances at the Museum, and Exhibition Extras. Parallel Stories is a literary and performing arts lecture series that pairs art and artists with award-winning authors and performers, and functions as a multidisciplinary lens through which to view the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions. Guest lecturers give presentations in the Art Matters series. Exhibition Extras include panel discussions with Museum curators and artists and more.