Tag: Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces upcoming events — Nov. 21, Dec. 5, through Jan. 3

by Community Contributor • November 13, 2026 • Comments Off

Nov. 21 — Look beyond the familiar image of Mary Cassatt and discover the radical, intellectually ambitious artist who helped shape modern art.
Join Mary G. Morton, curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for a compelling lecture inspired by her new book, Cassatt Reconsidered. Challenging longstanding perceptions of Cassatt’s work and legacy, Morton offers a fresh perspective on an artist whose vision extended far beyond her celebrated depictions of women and children.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art — Basil Kincaid Visits SBMA for Talk, Artist Workshop

by Community Contributor • August 11, 2026 • Comments Off

Basil Kincaid, whose work is featured in the exhibition Remixed, joins SBMA Assistant Curator Lauren Karazija, to explore ancestry, connection and conversation. Crafted from salvaged fabrics, quilts offer far more than physical warmth—they retain the indelible traces of past lives. Describing quilting as a “spiritual technology,” Kincaid engages in a dialogue across time and space through lived-in materials charged with the enduring energy of loved ones. Tickets are selling quickly; reserve yours today at sbma.net.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces 2026 Winter/Spring exhibition schedule

by Community Contributor • December 17, 2025 • Comments Off

In the new year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art offers a sweeping look at how artists engage with time. Works grounded in personal histories, inherited traditions, and collective memory speak to the past while giving us new ways to access it in the present. Contemporary materials and lived experience illuminate the world as it is now, yet they also open space for reflection and reinterpretation. Digital experimentation and visionary forms gesture toward the future, and at the same time expand how we record, memorialize, and remember. Seen together, these exhibitions reveal art as a continuum—one in which past, present, and future coexist, overlap, and remain vividly alive today.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art to open expanded educational space on April 13

by Community Contributor • April 11, 2025 • Comments Off

“Education is at the core of SBMA’s mission,” states Eichholz Family Foundation Director Amada Cruz. “The new expanded space for classes and workshops at the Museum is a game-changer. From the minute you walk into the light-filled white ART LEARNING LAB, you are immersed in a space for art-making with colorful pencils, crayons, sketch pads, and drawings on the wall.”

Oct. 12 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Bilingual Storytime — Raíces y Sueños: In Partnership with the Santa Barbara Public Library

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025 • Comments Off

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March 31 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Parallel Stories ‘On Freedom: A Conversation with Author Maggie Nelson’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2022 • Comments Off

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Parallel Stories “On Freedom: A Conversation with Author Maggie Nelson” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31.

Author Maggie Nelson returns to SBMA’s Parallel Stories with a reading and discussion of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, a boundary-pushing, provocative work that explores the notion of freedom through four lenses: art, sex, drugs, and the climate. In this highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Argonauts, Nelson continues to astound as “one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation” (The Guardian).

Oct. 23 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Day of the Dead’ Free Family Day

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2022 • Comments Off

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present its Free “Day of the Dead” Free Family Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

For the 33rd year, the Museum honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students in the Museum’s school and outreach programs and local community groups, including San Marcos High School, Montecito Union School, Quilt Project Gold Coast, SBMA’s Partnership with A-OK After-School Program (multiple schools), and SBMA’s ArtReach program (multiple schools).

Feb. 4 — SBMA presents Lecture (via Zoom) The 500 Faces of Teotihuacan

by Amigos805.com • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present: Lecture (via Zoom) “The 500 Faces of Teotihuacan.” Matthew Robb Chief Curator, Fowler Museum From 100 BCE to 600 CE, the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan dominated Mesoamerica though a complex mixture of religious,…

Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces upcoming exhibits, events from March through May

by Community Contributor • February 24, 2020 • Comments Off

1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net Enjoy half-price admission! Exhibition Openings Nathlie Provosty, Council, Untitled (16-38), 2016. Watercolor on paper, diptych.…

Santa Barbara Museum of Art — It’s Going to Be a Super Weekend…

by Community Contributor • January 30, 2020 • Comments Off

Put on your party hat (or make your own!) during the Museum’s 10th Birthday Bash on Saturday, February 1, 2020. MORE INFO / PURCHASE TICKETS Weave together Valentine’s Day gifts and collaborate on a community artwork during Free Family Day…