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Events at SBMA
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Tickets for most events may be purchased at the Admissions Desk during Museum hours or by credit card by calling 805.884.6423. Please check event details for further information.
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May / June / July 2012
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Thursdays, June 7; July 5, 5 – 8 pm
Family 1st Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Bring the whole family and enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA's Family Resource Center located across from the Museum Café on the Lower Level. Museum Teaching Artists will assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects. Afterwards, enjoy selected galleries until 8pm.
June 7
Block Panel Animal Portraits: Portrayal/Betrayal
Select one of the close-up animal portraits featured in Portrayal/Betrayal and layer with block panels from your own colored pencil compositions.
July 5
Continuous View Collages: Behind the Wheel
Reimagine the local landscape by creating a continuous view collage on watercolor paper with metallic paint using details of Robbert Flick's Along Shoreline Drive and Cabrillo Blvd., Looking South.
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Sundays, June 3/10; July 8, 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists on the Museum’s front steps. Each month explore a different medium, including clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, and paper, and gain inspiration from works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection or special exhibitions.
In the event of inclement weather, activities will be moved inside to the Museum’s Family Resource Center.
Front Steps of the Museum
Free
Photography
Portrayal/Betrayal Portrait Studio
Sunday, June 3 and Sunday, June 10
Pose for a free portrait and create your own frame to celebrate the art of portrait photography, inspired by the exhibition Portrayal/Betrayal. Return the following weekend and pose with your pet!
Oil Pastel
John Frederick Peto's Still-Life with Cake
Sunday, July 8
Draw a still life using oil pastel on palette shaped paper then layer blocks of color in watercolor paint to create a richly contrasted composition.
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John George Brown, Pull for the Shore, n.d. Oil on canvas. Gifts from the Estate of Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Norman Hirschl and the American Federation of Arts to the Preston Morton Collection by exchange.
Thursday, May 17, 5:30 pm
Peter John Brownlee, PhD., Associate Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art highlights particular trends in painting and sculpture of the United States made during the century extending from the Second Great Awakening of the early 1800s to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Exploring the cultural contexts in which American art evolved during this period, the lecture touches on key historical developments as addressed in landscape, genre, still-life, and portrait paintings, as well as in selected sculptures, currently on view in Scenery, Story Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
 Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Regular admission for Non-Members
Curator's Choice is an innovative lecture series featuring prominent speakers hand-picked by the Museum's curators. Distinguished experts offer fresh perspectives on the visual arts and provide stimulating opportunities for discovery to adults in the Santa Barbara community. This Curator's Choice lecture is sponsored by the curatorial support group, Dead Artists Society.
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Joseph Sterling, The Age of Adolescence 1959-1964, 2006. Gelatin silver print. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by Jane and Michael G. Wilson.
Thursday, June 7, 5 – 8 pm
Take a spin through the Behind the Wheel exhibition, then hitch a ride with the actors appearing in car theatre, as three, 10-15 minute original plays are performed in actual automobiles.
Space is limited. Please arrive early to be added to the reservation list.
At 8 pm, the back plaza becomes a summer screening room for American Graffitti (1973, 110 min.). Mini-burgers, popcorn, malts, and soft drinks will be on sale.
Seating is limited to 200. First come, first seated.
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Saturday, June 9, 12 – 5 pm
After spending 25 years as an award-winning photojournalist at the Los Angeles Times, Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO, and the Press Enterprise in Riverside, CA, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara native Thomas Kelsey attended an Ansel Adams workshop in 1981 that changed his focus forever. Spending time with Adams led Kelsey to his true passion of capturing the beauty of wildlife and landscapes?which he continues to pursue to this day. Kelsey will be signing his book The Spirit of the West, representing more than 35 years of wildlife photography in the backcountry of 10 different Western states.
Museum Store
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July 2 – 13
Create your own self-portrait using Twitter! From July 2 to 13, submit a six-word, self-portrait message via twitter with the hashtag #SBMA6, and our Teaching Artists will create a sketched "portrait" based on your text. Written and sketched portraits will be featured on the Museum website.
Stumped on what to write? Take cues from authors and entertainers – singer Aimee Mann: "Couldn't cope so I wrote songs," comedian Stephen Colbert: "Well, I thought it was funny," and most famously, Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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Richard Tullis III, Sam Francis at the Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, 1990. Gelatin silver print. SBMA, Museum purchase.
Sunday, August 5, 2:30 pm
Be a part of the conversation as an eclectic mix of artists, critics, theorists, and writers come together to share the when, where, and why of their favorite portrait across time and place, and most favorite or least favorite image in Portrayal/Betrayal. Panelists include artist, Tony de los Reyes; UCSB Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies, Colin Gardner; Writer and USC School of Cinematic Art Adjunct Faculty, Nevin Schreiner; and UCSB Professor of Asian American Studies, Sameer Pandya.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Regular admission for Non-Members
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Keith Carter, Stars, 1995. Toned gelatin silver print. SBMA, Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Photographic Art.
Sunday, September 9, 2:30 pm
Called "a poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times and featured in the Portrayal/Betrayal exhibition, Keith Carter speaks about his career as a photographer–from taking over his mother's portrait business in the early '80s, to the personal, and world renowned projects of small Texas towns, landscapes, portraits, and still-lifes.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Regular admission for Non-Members
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