1st Thursday Art Walk

The Gallery features figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes, by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison. Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

Sing songs with never-before-sung lyrics generated from bizarre Internet datasets. Spam emails to the tune of “Sweet Caroline?” OkCupid profiles in the style of “Pink Pony Club?” The choice is yours! Comedian and writer Jamie Brew creates parodies for you to perform using software from the utmost frontier of karaoke research.

FIGURATIVELY: “Using words in a way that departs from their literal definition to create a vivid image.” The artworks in this show utilize both abstract and realistic figurative imagery to express emotive and/or complex ideas. Photo (detail): Iben Vestergaard, Looking for Purpose in the Age of Abundance. 48 x 36.

Step inside Gallery Josephine for an evening of art, studio process and community. Discover Josephine Tournier Ingram’s contemporary paintings, experience a film revealing her creative process, and leave your mark on a collaborative canvas—adding words, stories and texture that will become the foundation for a future original artwork.

Grace Vega, The Soul Grace, is a first-generation Latina. She is a soulful artist and poet! Through her art and poetry, she explores healing, self-love, and the Soul that shapes us. Her work invites reflection and connection. She will be sharing live poetry readings and offering original artwork for sale.

Bernard Trainor’s Absorb is the inaugural solo-artist show for Anacapa Architecture’s gallery, Front Space. Absorb investigates the emersion of artist into landscape and the pattern language which emerges from this integral connection.

Celebrate Chumash culture through hands-on art activities at The SPACE and visit Casa de la Guerra to see two new exhibits: Fine Print, Hard Lines: Housing & Exclusion in Santa Barbara; and Finding Fiesta, a UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center exhibition featuring art projects by junior high & high school students from across Santa Barbara. 

Join us at Tamsen Gallery for "Before They Were Legends," a breathtaking exhibition of rare trial proofs from the Bob Bonis Archive. Experience intimate, unseen moments of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during their groundbreaking tours from 1964 to 1966. Don’t miss this unique journey into music history! 

Come celebrate the current work of our incredibly talented  local artists. Enjoy music, drinks, and treats. View our private collection of Eileen Richardson’s 1980’s art pottery. Whose work is in The Smithsonian Museum! Looking for locally handmade gifts or something special for yourself? Look no further than The Yes Store!

Co-op gallery for members of the Santa Barbara Art Assoc. Our Artist of the Month is Odessa Burrow. Odessa's artwork is inspired by nature, the coastline and mountain trails of Santa Barbara. Other featured artists working in various mediums will be on hand to discuss their exhibits.

Artist Jacob Vantiger presents mixed-media paintings alongside new tattoo-inspired works, blending bold imagery, texture, and traditional influences. Drawing from years of tattooing, music, and visual storytelling, the exhibition explores the connection between tattoo culture and fine art, accompanied by live music and drinks by HeartNSoul Mixology.

As Santa Barbara summers transition into fall, we enjoy the long, warm days and cool evenings with a golden hills backdrop. Come explore this seasonal transition through the art of our extraordinarily talented local artists. (Painting by Kelly Hine   Rancho Canada Vineyard. Santa Ynez 16 x 20 pastel)

Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of Patricia Chidlaw's latest solo exhibition: "The Blue Room."  This show is full of new works that demonstrate why the artist is one of California's most popular realist painters. Also on view: Wosene: Words in Time, and our Summer Salon II.

This exhibition features Hispanic and Latino artists, highlighting diverse approaches to themes of identity, cultural memory, and experiences. Co-curated by Jacqueline Valenzuela and Elizabeth Munzón, this exhibit is part of Raíces y Sueños, our annual programming series celebrating Hispanic Heritage. The reception will include a musical performance by guitarist, Tony Ybarra. 

Pandas on the Beach Santa Barbara Artworks artists reception features artist Reiko Karl as she has been developing her art process over the years at Artworks and has combined her love for painting animals and beaches into a fun series of whimsical paintings. Live DJ, Charles Jefferson and  Snacks provided by Mo’s to Go. 

The Five - An Exhibition by G. Pierre La Citadelle stands through time, turmoil, and silence. Through five encounters with this living monument, The Five explores the dialogue between stone, mountains, trees, light, memory, and resilience. Join us at Ace Rivington to celebrate a Caribbean inspired art and culture event. Rum drinks served. 

Moving beyond direct observation, Santa Barbara artist Sylvan Butera Rich explores the California coast through memory, intuition, and color. Blending the natural world with an internal landscape, her latest body of work transforms familiar vistas into expressive meditations on place, abundance, and the rhythms that shape our connection to nature. 

Come celebrate the five-year anniversary of domecíl and enjoy the work of Laurie Pincus, whose art explores the spaces where imagination and reality, childhood and adulthood, and dreams and waking life meet. Her cast of over 400 imaginary characters inhabits playful narratives that blur the boundaries between fictional and real-world landscapes.

Take a picture with Freud. Come visit the ‘Center For Psychotherapy’ to sit with Freud, take a personality test, and more... We are featuring local artist Joanna Bea of Bea Furnishings, showcasing her upholstered chairs in a collection titled “The most comfortable part of therapy is the chair."

Join us for the Abstract Art Collective Fall Member Show, juried by Susan Tibbles, and vote on ten public‑art proposals from the Sculptor Guild Public Arts Initiative at the Voice Gallery, through Sep 25 (M–F 11am–5pm, Sat–Sun 1–5pm). Receptions: Sep 3 (1st Thursday) and Sep 18 (3rd Friday), 5–8pm. Image by Denise Carey.

Join us for another 1st Thursday at SuperMoss, where preserved moss takes center stage! Explore our collection of moss art and unique plant arrangements, and enjoy live watercolor painting by artist Casson Demon. Meet fellow art and plant lovers and connect with inspired crafters in a relaxing, immersive green atmosphere.

We proudly present Another Room, our first exhibition dedicated entirely to photography, featuring Los Angeles-based German photographer Michael EB Detto. Detto transforms familiar urban environments into spaces of ambiguity and narrative possibility, exploring architecture as a vessel for abstraction and psychological experience. Join us in the artist’s presence for live music and complimentary refreshments!

Join us at the NEW Film Center every 1st Thursday for free screenings of short films by Santa Barbara filmmakers. Check sbiff.org/sbfilmmakers for film info. Showtimes 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm, and 7:00pm. (showtimes subject to change)

The ambience of the gallery turns inward and intimate in Ruth Ellen Hoag’s paintings for September. Contemplation, considers the human form, meditations and reflections. This month also initiates a new gallery wall dedicated to students at REH Studio who have completed a body of work. September’s featured artist is Ken Waxman.

Join the Museum for a special Flor y Canto performance of early California music and dance at 6:00pm. Guests can also enjoy wine and view our latest exhibitions Finding Saint Barbara & Arte de los Mantónes along with our permanent galleries. All ages welcome.