Home | Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Skip to main content

CLOSED TODAY

Buy Tickets
Store
Video Library
Become a Member
Donate

Search

Visit
Visit

Plan Your Trip

Accessibility

Gallery Tours

Location

Art Learning Lab

Museum Store

Contact

# Visit Featured Item 2

# Visit Featured Item 3
Museum Store

Jewelry, Books, Toys, and Custom Products

Visit SBMA

Click for more info
Exhibitions
Exhibitions

Current

Upcoming

Past

# Exhibitions Featured Item 3

# Exhibitions Featured Item 2
Proscenium: Elliott Hundley

Through August 31, 2025

Math + Art

Through August 24, 2025

$photo of square artwork consisting of distressed metal plate$
Events
Events

All Events

Video Library

# Events Featured Item 2

# Events Featured Item 3

# Events Featured Item 1
Summer Sets/Summer Steps:

Art, Dance, and Music

Sunday, July 6
5 – 6 pm

Studio Sunday

Sunday, July 13
12 – 4 pm

"Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains"

Film Screening

Sunday, July 13
2:30 – 4:30 pm
Collections
Collections

Collections Search

Categories

Artists

My Collections

Collections Login

Rights & Reproductions

Provenance

# Collection Featured Content 1
Currently On View from the Permanent Collection
Learn
Learn

Kids & Families

Adult Programs

Teen Programs

Schools & Teachers

Publications

Docents

Video Library

# Learn Featured Content 1

# Learn Featured Content 2

# Learn Featured Content 3
School Field Trips

Register your class today

Art Learning Lab

Ongoing

Education Viewbook

Learn about all the Education programs at SBMA
About
About

History

Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Contact

Press

Newsletter

SBMA Archives

Careers

Board of Trustees

Staff

Financial Information

# About Featured Content 1

# About Featured Content 2

# About Featured Content 3
New Opportunities

Apply for a job at SBMA

View the Latest Print Newsletter!

SBMA Receives Charity Navigator's 4-Star Rating

Press Release
Travel
Travel

Upcoming

Past

Reviews

Request Information

Travels with a Docent

Armchair Travels

Value Tours

Video Messages from Travel Leaders

# Travel Featured Content 2

# Travel Featured Content 1

# Travel Featured Content 3
Allure of the Amalfi Coast

Discovering Italy’s Coastal Beauty, A Value Tour

October 29 – November 6, 2025

Cruising the Adriatic

~ Slovenia & Croatia aboard Queen Eleganza with Eric Frank

May 23 – June 3, 2026

Art, Arboreta, and Estates of England's East Anglia Region

~ Cambridge and Norfolk ~ with Oliver Gerrish

June 2026 (Dates TBD)
Support
Support

Join

Digital Membership Cards

Give

Get Involved

Planned Giving

Privacy Policy

# Support Us Featured Content 1

# Support Us Featured Content 2

# Support Us Featured Content 3
Become a Member!

Enjoy Member Benefits Today!

For Members

See what's in store if you become a Member of SBMA!

Become a Docent

Help Teach at SBMA

abstract collage of various shapes, colors, and sizes of paper in a vertical orientation

Letter Forms

Through September 14

portrait of a woman staring at the viewer

Portraits Revealed

Ongoing

photo of abstract work hanging on a light gray wall, consisting of a heavily worked surface with various objects and color palette of warm tones

Proscenium: Elliott Hundley

Through August 31, 2025

photo of artist installation featuring sculptures, paintings and more

By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA 

Through February 22, 2026

photo of dark and round work of art with a seemingly flat and shiny surface against a light gray backdrop

Math + Art

March 30 – August 24, 2025

detail of opaque watercolor on cotton of a Tibetan mandala of a goddess

Guides to Enlightenment: Tibetan Paintings from the Museum’s Collection

Through August 17, 2025

abstract painting with various shapes of blues in the foreground and a background of warm colors, on the left yellows and oranges and the right reds

Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850-1950

An exhibition of the permanent collection at SBMA

Ongoing

Exhibitions

See What's On View

photo of buildings overlooking the water at dusk

Allure of the Amalfi Coast: Discovering Italy’s Coastal Beauty, A Value Tour

ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS

October 29 – November 6, 2025

photo of exterior of SBMA from state street entrance at dusk

Join SBMA Today

Enjoy the best the Museum has to offer as a Member!

Event

Summer Sets/Summer Steps: Art, Dance, and Music

Sunday, July 6, 2025
5 – 6 pm

Event

movie poster featuring the title over a photo of two people outside featuring back of someone's head in the foreground and a man with a gun in the background

"Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains" Film Screening

Sunday, July 13. 2025
2:30 – 4:30 pm

Press release

"The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art" and "Encore: 19th Century French Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art"

May 2, 2025

Event

quartet and their instruments dressed in formal attire

Parker Quartet

String Quartet Chamber Music Concert

Friday, October 24, 2025
7 – 8:30 pm

Museum Hours

Tues - Sun 11 am - 5 pm
1st Thurs 11 am - 8 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays
» see complete schedule

Visit Us

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
» view map

Connect

Find SBMA on

Get the SBMA Newsletter

© 2024 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - A tax exempt 501c(3) nonprofit organization - Charity Number 95-1664122.
Terms of Use Privacy Policy Rights & Reproduction