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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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February / March 2012
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Thursday, February 2; March 1, 5 – 8 pm
In February, see Publicly Private and Pasadena to Santa Barbara.
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.
February 2
See-Through Subway Scenes: Publicly Private
Develop your own point of view while layering transparent reproductions of 1960’s photographs of everyday New Yorkers riding the subway to create window collage scenes inspired by the work of Enrico Natali.
March 1
Textured Tiles: Pasadena to Santa Barbara
Carve characters and decorative patterns into air-dry clay then finish with transparent "luster glaze" inspired by the whimsical ceramics of Beatrice Wood on view in Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969.
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Sunday, February 12; March 11, 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.
Front Steps of the Museum
Free
Paper
Doug Rickard's Google Street View Photographs
Sunday, February 12
Transform two dimensions into three by creating a photo-diorama using details of Doug Rickard's Google Street View imagery.
Clay
Beatrice Wood's Ceramics
Sunday, March 11
Sculpt pinch pots from air-dry terra-cotta clay while experimenting with texture and surface treatments.
In the event of inclement weather, activities will be moved inside to the Museum’s Family Resource Center.
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Saturday, February 4, 1 pm
In anticipation of the opening of Pasadena to Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will screen this 2008 documentary, directed by Morgan Neville, that tells the story of how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch. (86 min.)
A discussion with the director and artists follows the screening.
For more information and tickets, visit www.sbiff.org.
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Saturday, February 11, 12 – 5 pm
Resident of Santa Ynez, Sarah Chamberlin works within a centuries old ceramic technique, Majolica, which is now gaining a renaissance amongst collectors and artists in the United States. Majolica was developed in the Middle East around 800 AD in an attempt to copy Chinese porcelain. After studying several different ceramic techniques over many years, Sarah finally settled on Majolica as the best way to showcase her unique talents, as it allows the use of an extensive color palette, which is unavailable in many other ceramic techniques. Sarah makes use of the red earthenware and enamel-white glaze to achieve stunning contrast within her work. Her pieces are all hand-made, either on the potter's wheel or by using several different hand-building techniques.
Museum Store
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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830, oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Paris
Thursday, February 16, 5:30 pm
Ralph Ubl, a distinguished historian and educator at the University of Chicago, will offer his nuanced interpretation of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty On the Barricades. Sponsored by SBMA's Dead Artists Society.
 Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
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Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm
Founded in Warsaw in 1995, this ensemble has developed into one of the most exceptional international string quartets of its generation. Its sophisticated programs present a perfect balance between intellect and passion, captivating audiences at prestigious festivals and concert halls in Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia, and South America. The Quartet's extraordinarily high standard has been confirmed by numerous awards and distinctions and it is a regular guest at internationally-renowned festivals.
Mary Craig Auditorium
$15 Members/$19 Non-Members
Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Visitor Services desks, or by calling 963.4364 x400.
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Sunday, February 19, 3 pm
Nigel McGilchrist, Art Historian, Orvieto, Italy
What better way to spend a winter afternoon than a trip to sunny Italy? SBMA's favorite Italy expert Nigel McGilchrist takes us on a virtual tour of each of the major regions of Italy, including Sicily, with his picks for greatest works of art and architecture in each region.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is proud to be part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene.
Sunday, February 26, 4 pm
Peter Plagens and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: On Pacific Standard Time
Sunshine Muse meets Rebels in Paradise, when Newsweek art critic and self-described "painter who happens to write art criticism," Peter Plagens, and long- time observer of the LA art scene, journalist and critic, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, join curator Julie Joyce in a free-wheeling conversation regarding the development of contemporary art in Southern California.
Click here for more information on this program and to purchase tickets online.
Mary Craig Auditorium
$5 Students and SBMA Members/$10 Non-Members
Tickets may also be purchased at the Museum's Visitor Services desks.
For more information, call 884.6414.
Sunday, February 26, 1 – 4 pm
FREE Community Celebration
The community is invited to celebrate SBMA's participation in the Pacific Standard Time initiative with the exhibition Pasadena to Santa Barbara in an interactive afternoon of art, performance, exhibition- inspired art activities, food, music, and creative play.
Free
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Images left to right: Cover of Night Tide; Film still from Pull My Daisy; Beatrice Wood.
Thursdays, March 8, 29, and Sunday, May 13, 5:30 pm
Introduced by UCSB, Critical Theory and Integrative Studies Professor, Colin Gardner
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
March 8: Night Tide
Johnny becomes interested in a woman who plays a mermaid in the local carnival, and after some strange occurrences, begins to believe that she may actually be a real. Directed by Curtis Harrington (1961, 84 min.)
March 29: Pull My Daisy
Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, this film tells the story of Milo and his wife, and the eccentricities of their poet friends. (1959, 30 min.)
May 13: Mama of Dada
This documentary, written and directed by Thomas L. Neff, tells the story of Beatrice Wood, a renowned ceramist and leading figure in the Dada art movement in New York in the 1910s. (1994, 53 min.)
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Saturday, March 10, 12 – 5 pm
Ojai-resident Sandra Torres states, "Simplicity of shape and quality of materials... porcelain, in the thinnest of its expressions, demonstrates a life of its own, moving to the heat of the firing and resulting in an imprint of its own memory; delicate to the sight, yet strong to the touch. I have chosen a process that allows me to create contrast of color while maintaining the soft bare feeling and translucency of the porcelain."
Museum Store
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Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 pm
This German ensemble was recently named one of the top six string quartets in the world by the German FonoForum magazine. The Quartet appears at the world's great concert venues and has won several major international competitions, as its expressivity and remarkable homogeneity of sound and phrasing has become its distinguishing characteristic.
Mary Craig Auditorium
$15 SBMA Members/$19 Non-Members
Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Visitor Services desks, or by calling 963.4364 x400.
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Doug Rickard #39.259736, Baltimore, MD. 2008, 2011, archival pigment print, courtesy of the artist and Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
Sundays, March 25; April 1, 2:30 pm
Photographers Enrico Natali and Doug Rickard will offer insights into their techniques and share their opinions about the blurring of private and public in their work.
March 25: Enrico Natali
April 1: Doug Rickard
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members / Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
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March 26 – 30
ArtVenture Camp: Ages 5 – 12, Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Ceramics Camp: Ages 7 – 12, Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
For more information on Spring camps or to enroll online, click here
ArtVenture Camp: $215 Members/$250 Non-Members
Ceramics Camp: $185 Members/$220 Non-Members
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