Articles From : SB Art Museum
John Yau and Joan Tanner in Conversation
Artist Joan Tanner joins acclaimed poet and art critic, John Yau, Professor of Critical Studies at Rutgers University, for a conversation. Tanner is currently the subject of a solo SBMA exhibition, "Out of Joint: Joan Tanner" (through May 14). Yau has edited the "Brooklyn Rail" and "Hyperallergic Weekend," and has authored some 50 books of poetry. Having been a voice in the art world since 1975 when he began writing art criticism, he is among the most well-known critics of contemporary art writing today.
School of New York Revisited: 11 + 11 + 1
In 1959, the collector and critic B.H. Friedman published "School of New York: Some Younger Artists," a selection of eleven artists of the period with varied approaches: Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Ray Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Jon Schueler, Richard Stankiewicz. Though admirably wide-ranging, this list is hardly definitive.
Emerging Teen Spring Camp
Ages: 12 – 14
Inspired by the exhibitions Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz and Out of Joint: Joan Tanner, students create collaborative and individual sculptures and assemblage works from unexpected materials and drawings using oil pastels, chalk, charcoal, and ink.
Instructors: Loree Gold and Patrick Melroy
$300/SBMA Members/$350 Non-Members
Register at tickets.sbma.net.
Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.
Obsolescence: The Sculpture of Ed & Nancy Kienholz
We live in a world of disposable and mostly forgettable manufactured objects. Behind every gleaming big box retail store is a dumpster waiting to welcome what is on the shelves inside. From cast offs and supposed junk, Ed Kienholz (1927-1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (1943-2019) made sculptures full of incendiary commentary about American life during the 20th century. They liked swap meets, flea markets, and had Ed lived longer he would have surely trawled Ebay (founded 1995).
From Scene to Scene: The Multiple Bruce Conners in the Art Underground
Curator’s Choice Lecture with, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Couples with Cassandra C. Jones and Mikael Jorgensen
Inspired by the artistic collaboration of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the SBMA exhibition Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz, this series explores what happens in fiction and life when artist couples work together or in parallel, and sometimes within competitive creative spaces.
Ingres’s Creoles (Secrets)
Art Matters Lecture with Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities, UC Berkeley
Writing in the Galleries
Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.
In February writer, SBCC professor, and current poet Laureate of Santa Barbara Emma Trelles leads the session.
Museum Galleries
Free
Studio Sunday
Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in this hands-on informal workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists. Each month explore a different medium—clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, paper—inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collection or special exhibitions.
In February, free draw in black marker on watercolor paper then dab brilliant shades of dry tempera paint through mesh to add color, inspired by the drawings of Joan Tanner.
Family Resource Center
Free
Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution
This free concert features student composers, performers, and writers from a workshop led by Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Ted Nash who joins them on stage. Responding in part to artist Joan Tanner’s unorthodox use of materials and inspired by Nash’s original composition first performed with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, these young artists explore the idea of transformation, both personal and collective, bringing word and music together in this exuberant community-sourced celebration of the expressive and empathetic power of art.
Couples
Inspired by the artistic collaboration of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the SBMA exhibition "Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz," Parallel Stories examines what happens in fiction and life when artist couples work together.
Sketching in the Galleries
All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials.
Museum Galleries
Free with reservation
Reserve your spot at https://tickets.sbma.net/event-detail/sketching-galleries-2023-02-09/
Free-for-All
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is participating in SoCal Museums’ 2023 Free-for-All event by offering free admission all day on February 5.
On Free-for-All, over 30 museums in Southern California from Long Beach to Santa Barbara will open their doors and offer free general admission.
At SBMA, enjoy the galleries 11 am – 5 pm and free Teaching Artist-led art activities for the whole family in the Family Resource Center 12 – 4 pm.
Advance Museum admission reservations available at tickets.sbma.net
Family 1st Thursday
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Collage a bird and flower detail from Utagawa Hiroshige’s color woodblock print Bullfinch (Uso) and Japanese Mountain Rose (n.d.), then add a selection of Japanese characters in black watercolor to your composition. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.
Free
Reimagining the Museum
Art Matters Lecture with Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Ph.D., Independent Curator
Pop-Up Opera
SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season’s sampling of art and music with pop-up performances in the Museum’s galleries, inspired by SBMA’s collection and special exhibitions or other topical themes.
Museum Galleries
Free
SBMA Museum Collectors Council Film Screening: From Page to Silver Screen: The Maltese Falcon
Julie M. Rivett, Dashiell Hammett’s granddaughter and archivist, will discuss Hammett's noir in literature and how it was adapted for the big screen.
A Conversation between Cherished SBMA Travel Leaders: Susie Orso and Nigel McGilchrist
Susie Orso and Nigel McGilchrist converse and reminisce about the Museum’s Travel Program over its busy half-century of history – discussing what the real significance of travel is for us, how travel is done at its best, and what instructive lessons we all learned from our abstention during the pandemic years. They share stories and joyous moments - including reflections on gastronomy and art - as well as pictures from recent journeys, far and wide, with the Museum’s indomitable group of traveling members and friends.
$10 SBMA Members
$15 Non-Members
Writing in the Galleries
Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.
The January session is led by local poet and UC Santa Barbara professor Rick Benjamin.
Free
Reserve your spot at https://tickets.sbma.net/event-detail/writing-galleries-2023-01-19/
Lecture by Nigel McGilchrist: Venice & the Veneto
Venice is perhaps the world’s most beautiful city, and certainly one of its most anomalous human creations. Built in the water of a lagoon, it needed, as it grew in size and importance, a hinterland of its own which both protected its approaches from the land, and provided it with agricultural produce and timber. This became the area known as the Veneto – the flat-lands and alpine foothills that extend to the north and west of Venice.