events

Swan Lake with Live Orchestra

A Tribute To The Legendary Linda Ronstadt

Riders of the Purple Sage

Santa Barbara Youth Ensembles Combined Spring Concert

Charles Lloyd Quartet

Doug Varone and Dancers

Historymaking Midterms: An Evening with Mara Liasson

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor

Jesse Cook: Forever Live Tour

After Midnight

Take it to the Limit

José James Sings Sinatra

The Barber of Seville

Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Winter Concert

Journey through Jazz

Buena Vista Orchestra

Rising Appalachia: Trade My Troubles Tour

JOHN CRAIGIE

Juilliard String Quartet & Simone Dinnerstein

Choir! Choir! Choir!

RUDOLPH

Hard Candy

Jake Shimabukuro’s Holidays in Hawaii

Hélène Grimaud

The Christmas Revels: A Victorian Celebration of the Winter Solstice

An Irish Christmas

Mountain Goats (Solo Show)

Ready to Hang — Sneak Peek

Cassatt Reconsidered

Artist and Faculty Response

For Your Reference: Mungo Thomson

Cassatt & Friends

Untamed Desert: Captured by Paulette Donnellon

All Trails Lead Inward by Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan

Crafternoons for Kids — October 17

The Power of Possibility — Light Art at San Marcos Courtyard

Crafternoons for Kids — October 31

Sketching in the Galleries — January

SBPL x SBMA Teen Art Party – Printmaking

SBPL x SBMA Teen Art Party – Clay

After-School Art: Wild Kingdom Art Safari

Knot Your Average Blanket

Beginning Watercolor: The Next Step

Song Lyrics on Canvas

Mindful Mixed Media and Collage

Haunted Halloween House

Driftwood Wall Hanging

Rocks, Boulders & Rough Texture in Watercolor

Sewing and Mending

Halloween Costumes, Decorations, and Games

Tuesday Crafternoons for Kids

Upcycle Couture: A Reuse Runway Event

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra

Snow Job (1970) Performance and Workshop

Gemidos de la Tierra Activation

David Gebhard Centennial Symposium — Day 2

Haptic Knowing

In Good Company: Westmont Faculty Invites

2027 Senior Art Graduates Exhibition

Collected Journeys: African Art from the Ivan Rasmussen Collection

Downtown Santa Barbara 1st Thursday Art Walk — December

Paint at Paseo — November

Winter Gift-Making Workshop – Clay Animals & Shadow Box Sculpture

The Music of Cassatt’s Paris: Opera, Art Song, and Cabaret of the Belle Époque

Día de los Muertos Market & Craft Day

SBMA Fall Opening Party

Explore Together

Bilingual Storytime: Raíces y Sueños — December

Explore Together: Pastel Portraits

Bilingual Storytime: Raíces y Sueños — November

Area Meeting: A Place for Creative Exchange

Explore Together: Watercolor Shapes

Dinner with an Artist

Mask-Making & The Art of Self Expression

Free 2nd Sunday for Tri-County Residents

Sketching in the Galleries

Pete Holmes

ABBA Gold Tour – with ABRA Cadabra – TRIBUTE

Riders of the Purple Sage

James Ehnes & Orion Weiss

Doug Varone and Dancers

Les Arts Florissants

OUR HOUSE

Nikolai Lugansky

Kalani Pe‘a and Taimane: Live In Concert

Trae Crowder

History That Doesn’t Suck with Professor Greg Jackson

The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville

Electric Elton

Joan Osborne and Christian McBride

Prince Again: A Tribute to Prince

Warren Miller’s DAYS OFF

Rachael & Vilray

Santa Barbara Youth Symphony

Meow Meow

RUDOLPH

Demetri Martin

Tina Schlieske & Friends

The Christmas Revels: A Victorian Celebration of the Winter Solstice

The Christmas Revels: A Victorian Celebration of the Winter Solstice

Konrad Kono

Area Meeting: A Place for Creative Exchange — November

Ready to Hang

Stage Craft: Pictorialist Photography and Performance

Sakoguchi Opening Reception

As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future

Elegies of Abstraction

Terra Firma: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection

CreativeMornings: Altitude with Meg Cramer

Crafternoons for Kids — October 24

Free 2nd Sunday for Tri-County Residents — December

Parallel Stories – Divya Victor, KIN

Writing in the Galleries — January

Winter After-School Multi-Media Class

Winter Gift-Making Workshop – Paint & Print

After-School Art: Fine Art Sampler

Creative Hammered Earrings

Winter Wonder Light-Up Jar

A Year in Pages: Handmade Journal

Hand Building with Clay

Día de los Muertos Ofrenda Workshop

Gilded Watercolor Note Cards

Sewing and Mending — November

Finish Up Friday

Tuesday Crafternoons for Kids

Junk Journaling

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970

Ben Sakoguchi: Only in America

Curator-led Tour and Talk on Bonnie Ora Sherk

David Gebhard Centennial Symposium — Day 1

David Gebhard Centennial Symposium — Day 3

As It Is in Heaven: Encaustic Paintings by Marissa Voytenko

Unfolding Narratives: Stories Beyond the Surface

2027 Tri-County Juried Show

Downtown Santa Barbara 1st Thursday Art Walk — November

Downtown Santa Barbara 1st Thursday Art Walk — January

Paint at Paseo — December

Sketching in the Galleries

Adult Art Studio Class: Painting Plants and Flowers Through Piet Mondrian’s Eyes

Fall Adult Ceramics Session 2

Parallel Stories — Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28

Sketching in the Galleries

Free 2nd Sunday for Tri-County Residents — November

SBMA 1st Thursday — November

Writing in the Galleries

Off Register 2026: Santa Barbara Art Book & Print Fair

Makers Hive Market — October

Embodied Arts Workshop: Sensory Storytelling

Bilingual Storytime: Raíces y Sueños

Día de los Muertos Free Family Day

1st Thursday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art