Tag: Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB)

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — New Art Avengers Assemble–We Need You!

by Community Contributor • November 25, 2025 • Comments Off

I’m excited to share an important milestone: we’ve just welcomed six remarkable new leaders to our Board of Trustees—individuals deeply committed to strengthening the connection between Art and Democracy in our community.

Our New Trustees:

Cassandria Blackmore – Artist, Santa Barbara, CA

Amy Harrison – Independent art teacher, Carpinteria, CA

Spenser Jaimes – Coastal Chumash; Founder & CEO, Limuw Productions; diver at Ocean Origins; Syuxtun (Santa Barbara)-born

Angela Robins – Senior Director, Various Small Fires; winemaker, Los Angeles, CA

Lea Sindija – Miami-born entrepreneur advancing culture-driven work in talent representation, brand partnerships, and global marketing; Santa Barbara, CA

Bany Vargas – Zapoteca; Oaxaca-born, Santa Barbara–raised cultural ambassador and traditional cook; Oaxaca, Mexico

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Leaf into Fall Feast Mode

by Community Contributor • October 23, 2025 • Comments Off

Fall is Feasting Season

Join us in celebrating:

(The Art of Mexcal)

Filipino American History Month

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — THANK YOU! 2025 Art Awards

by Community Contributor • July 17, 2025 • Comments Off

View this email in your browser Congratulations to the 2025 Artists! Left to Right: Gabriela Ruiz, Manjari Sharma, Mary Heebner, Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Diana Thater. Photo: Ingrid Bostrom Photography. Thank You! Whittier Trust, Carter W. Thicke Sofia & Mark Greif…

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Arte del Pueblo Assembly (Hope to see you this evening)

by Community Contributor • June 26, 2025 • Comments Off

In the spirit of community and creativity, we warmly invite you to join us tomorrow for the Arte Del Pueblo Assembly, a gathering where artists and art lovers can connect, support one another, and engage in meaningful dialogue.

Come together in this open forum to reflect on the state of contemporary art today, share your voice, and uplift each other’s visions. Let’s build bridges through mindful conversation and collective inspiration.

Your presence and perspective matter, see you there!

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Art Adventures in LA with MCASB on May 24, more news, events

by Community Contributor • May 16, 2025 • Comments Off

There are still a few spots left to join us on Saturday, May 24, departing Santa Barbara at 9:00 am.

Our LA adventure begins with a studio visit with artist Luz Carabaño. From there, we will experience an exhibition preview of Tony Cokes at Hannah Hoffman. Then we will end the day at The Brick where we will see Elizabeth Paige Smith Unshade me of You.

We hope you join us on a very full and rewarding day of art and ideas – register here!

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) announces ‘When Light and Sound Become Form’ on May 10, other upcoming events

by Community Contributor • May 8, 2025 • Comments Off

Saturday, May 10th, 2025
10:00am PST // 1:00pm EST

COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION, EPISODE 28

Co-presenters Frederick Janka and Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will be discussing four objects from the David Bermant Foundation Collection: Nam June Paik, Participation TV, 1969; Otto Piene, Light Ballet I; Marcel Duchamp, Rotorelief (optical discs) 1935-1953, edition c. 1965, and Alejandro & Moira Sina, Spinning Shaft 1978, 1983.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara celebrating Earth Day with Cole Sternberg

by Community Contributor • April 22, 2025 • Comments Off

“In 1969, the devastating images of a massive oil spill from an oil platform off Santa Barbara’s coast galvanized California into action and caught the attention of the rest of the nation, including Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, who visited Santa Barbara shortly after the spill. The resulting swell of outrage and concern gave rise to the first Earth Day in 1970” (and our colleagues at the Community Environmental Council).

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Join us on the LA Art Tours!

by Community Contributor • April 16, 2025 • Comments Off

Travel from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles with our MCASB Team & Supporters like you! Immerse yourself in a curated tour of the LA Arts Scene and make new friends. $250/ person, transportation & box lunch included.

We will depart from Santa Barbara at 9am & return 5pm.

Special Ventura pick-up & drop off for our friends in Ojai/Ventura/Oxnard.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — It’s time for a recap!

by Community Contributor • March 6, 2025 • Comments Off

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara hosted the Nobody Owns The Beach – 10th Anniversary by David Horvitz Shop last Friday, February 21, 2025 at The Culver Hotel.

The celebration was filled with laughter, music and shopping throughout the night to raise critical funds for MCASB. It was a lovely sight seeing many people from different places come together for the purpose of celebrating the 10th anniversary of this amazing piece!

We want to thank those who came and supported us at the event. The museum appreciates you all for showing up in a time like this when the Los Angeles Arts Community needs us the most.

A special thanks to: The Culver Hotel, Bibi Ji and Ysidro

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Art and Community Healing Open House (Feb. 9) and more events

by Community Contributor • February 7, 2025 • Comments Off

As we recover as a community from the major fires in LA, and as we remember the Thomas Fire and the Montecito Debris Flow, MCASB in partnership with Paseo Nuevo, and many organizations and individuals, will host a free intergenerational and family-friendly event on the Arts Terrace and throughout Paseo Nuevo on Sunday, February 9th from 11 am-2 pm. There will be opportunities to come together as a community around the healing power of art, art making, and learning about how we can all participate in building our future together.

Event-goers will have the opportunity to take part in many different activities, highlights include a guided painting workshop, art kit making stations, and Collecting Art to Change Lives: Art Collecting 101 – a conversation with arts industry leaders with insights and encouragement for collecting art now to support our LA arts community as it heals and rebuilds.

Feb. 21 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Invitation > Nobody Owns The Beach Pop Up – The Culver Hotel

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025 • Comments Off

On the occasion of the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles and the many events of the accompanying art week, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara presents a pop up of merchandise featuring artwork by David Horvitz. Nobody Owns The Beach celebrates the activist and community efforts in California to ensure access for all to our beautiful beaches. The artwork was originally commissioned for the 2015 MCASB exhibition Requiem for the Bibliophile.

We strongly encourage our communities to join us in Los Angeles next week – showing up, seeing and collecting art right now – is a critical way to support the arts community as it heals and rebuilds.

July 27 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) to hold Arte del Pueblo closing ceremony

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025 • Comments Off

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Oct. 20 — 35th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration at SBMA and MCASB

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2024 • Comments Off

SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) presents a free family day in celebration of Día de los Muertos on Sunday, Oct. 20, 11 am – 4 pm, in the Museum’s Front Terrace, Family Resource Center, and galleries. For the 35th year, the Museum honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a variety of family festivities include altar displays, art activities, live music, and dance performances. For the second year, a Day of the Dead Calenda, or procession, will travel from SBMA to the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB).Admission to the family event and to both museums is free.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara — Día de los Muertos Celebrations Continue through November 5th

by Community Contributor • October 30, 2023 • Comments Off

Our Dia de los Muertos celebrations kick off our year end giving campaign, and we would be so grateful and honored to have your support. It has been just over 10 months since a new leadership team reopened the Museum. We ask for your much needed support to take us into the new year. We are so incredibly grateful for the many individuals, foundations, and business that have been early adopters.

Bilingual report — MCASB Board of Trustees is pleased to announce our newest hire Dalia Garcia (she, her, ella), in the role of Program Director and Interim Executive Director

by Community Contributor • June 16, 2023 • Comments Off

SANTA BARBARA — Since mid-March, Garcia has led the development of new protocols for welcoming and hosting our growing and diverse audiences, artists, and funders. She is the primary liaison for the institution, and is working closely with the Board to develop additional staff and programmatic capacity as MCASB continues to fulfill its mission. Recent developments include expanded gallery hours to six days a week, a robust First Thursday series of public programs, and the development of new inclusive youth focused programming that seeks to create greater connections between Indigenous youth and the Museum.

May 7 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara to hold opening reception for ‘hrough What Agency?’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2022 • Comments Off

Join MCASB to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Through What Agency? on Saturday, May 7, 2022. MCASB’s members are invited to join us from 5-6 PM for the Member + VIP Walkthrough featuring a unique performance by exhibiting artist Jacob Kirkegaard. Not yet an MCASB member? Click here to sign up now!

Over the course of four months, MCASB will turn its galleries into an evolving community-driven space dedicated to exploring how individuals, organizations, and businesses in Santa Barbara County address issues related to climate change, and climate justice.

April 15 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara to present ‘Shana Moulton: The Invisible Seventh is the Mystic Column’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Santa Barbara-based artist Shana Moulton, The Invisible Seventh is the Mystic Column. The exhibition at MCASB features the debut of a new work, shot and edited by Moulton while in quarantine, alongside major works from her Whispering Pines series.