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Studio Sunday
Sunday, June 11, 2023
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Family Resource Center
Free
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 June, create your own animal character and setting in watercolor and marker on a line drawing of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s color woodblock print "The Bark of a Fox" (1886).
Family 1st Thursday
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center.
Create a cityscape in oil pastel on bogus paper inspired by Henri Matisse’s Pont Saint-Michel (ca. 1901). Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. All free!
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 May session is led by local poet, artist, and Poet/Teacher with California Poets in the Schools, Cie Gumucio.
Docent Recruitment Reception
If you have a passion for art and are interested in serving the community, the SBMA Docent Program is a rewarding and supportive environment to learn and have fun.
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 May, create a pinch pot from air dry clay. Draw animals and patterns into the clay, then finish with a watercolor wash, inspired by "Shallow Bowl with Pipal Leaves Fish Motif" (3500 -2500 BCE).
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.
Men in Pink: Eighteenth-Century French Portraiture
Art Matters Lecture with Melissa Hyde, Ph.D. Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar University of Florida, Gainesville
Family 1st Thursday
Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Reimagine Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt’s Summertime (1894) in colored pencil by changing the season, time of day, or by adding additional animals to the composition. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Family Resource Center
Free!
Pop-Up Opera and Discussion
Join SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara for a special event representing the final performance of the season. The format is part discussion/part performance in advance of Opera Santa Barbara's production of Wagner’s The Valkyrie in late April with guest speakers Simon Williams and Bob Weinman.
Free. First come, first seated.
Spring After-School Multimedia Class: Cityscapes and Seascapes
April 11 – May 16, 2023
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Ages 5 – 12
Combine materials and techniques to create mixed-media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, inspired by Lyonel Feininger/Andreas Feininger: The Modern Sea, The Modern City.
Ridley-Tree Education Center
$180 SBMA Members
$230 Non-Members
Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.
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.