1st Thursday Art Walk

Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at the University of California, Santa Barbara is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music, and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. The MAT department will showcase the cutting-edge research and new media artworks of our students.

Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of The Art of Collecting, an exhibition which invites you to ask our curators about the complex process of fine art acquisition. Also on view: Meredith Brooks Abbott.

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.

Step into Viridian Shores, Lucia de Miguel’s solo exhibition inspired by coastal landscapes, global travel, and imagined escape. Through vivid aerial perspectives and intimate shoreline portraits, this exhibition transforms memories, movement, and ocean beauty invites viewers to daydream, explore, and reconnect with nature’s wonder. On view June 4 - July 19.

We offer the Southwest’s largest collection of handmade contemporary, traditional and antique Persian, Turkish, Afghani, Tribal, and Tibetan rugs. This 1st Thursday features a Native American Zia design with feathers. We will have a solo guitar and refreshments.

Stop by domecíl to experience the ethereal work of Santa Barbara artist Adam Peot. Featuring expressive brushwork and paintings that explore the abstract intersections of human history, spirit, and nature, his work resonates with both old souls and young hearts alike. Through his art, Adam hopes to offer a sense of inspiration, reflection, and peace.

Josh Conviser in conversation on ultrarunning, passion, and presence. Josh’s memoir, Only Forward, traces his path from a torn Achilles through long efforts across the Grand Canyon, Alps, and the trails above Santa Barbara. The photographs are taken mid-run, the writing pulled from trail notes. Drinks, photography, and conversation promised!

Join the Museum for music, wine, and more!  Our latest exhibitions, The Gift: Recent Additions to Our Story and Ludmilla Pilat Welch: Serene Santa Barbara along with our permanent galleries, will also be open for visitors. All ages welcome!

The aura of summer merges with vibrant movement in SummerDance at VOICE Gallery. This piece by Rich Wilkie will be among works by local artists in media ranging from metals to photos, prints, and paintings. Meet your next partner and enjoy the creative season. Treats and Sing-along with Harold Kono.

Come celebrate summer at Idyll Mercantile with groovy tunes by DJ Donny Bru & Co, libations by Apiary, and fresh, local seafood by Santa Barbara Fish Market & The Cultured Abalone Farm.

Join The Crafter’s Library for our 5 year anniversary celebration. We will have giveaways, crafts, cocktails and karaoke all night long! Join us at 6:30pm for cake!

Come celebrate our 60 talented local artists while enjoying music, drinks, and treats! View our collection of Eileen Richardson’s 1980’s art pottery! A Santa Barbara artist whose work is in The Smithsonian Museum. Looking for locally handmade gifts or something special for yourself? Look no further than The Yes Store!

Visit the privately owned art gallery by world-renowned 3D Pop Artist Charles Fazzino. Visit 3D Studio Gallery to experience the world of the Master of 3D Pop Art with a close-up look at his collection of intricate 3D masterpieces!

Visit SBMA for 1st Thursday extended hours, 5–8 PM! Explore staff favorites in A Few of Our Favorite Things: Staff Selections from the Permanent Collection, multi-media and textile works in Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms, and reimagined realities in As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future.

Through expressive portraiture, Ancestral Sketches journeys through ancestral memory, migration, and cultural identity. From ancient civilizations to revolutionaries, campesinos, musicians, and dreamers, the series explores how the stories, movements, and histories carried by our ancestors continue to shape who we are and how we understand ourselves today.

We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Hunt Slonem, a leading figure of American Neo-Expressionism. His works, held in over 250 museum collections worldwide, explore bunnies, birds, butterflies, and tropical flora through rhythmic repetition, saturated color, and textured brushwork, creating immersive compositions inspired by nature.

Co-op gallery for members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Our Artist of the Month is Cindy Star. Cindy works with both digital and acrylic mediums to create imaginative and colorful paintings from real life and fantasy. Other featured artists working in various mediums will be on hand to discuss their exhibits for June.

Shop ceramic work by Marina Grimmett, Rian Gladnick, Orcutti Putty, and Wishy Washy Ceramics with DJ Blasé, zine-making with Honey Boy Press, charm-making with CreaTiffity Studios, and a queer artist showcase at Grassini Tasting Room featuring Marina Grimmett, lyra ramirez purugganan, Miriam MacMillan, Sammy Brenner, Mitchell Mark McCartney, and SOULSUCKER.

REH Contemporary introduces this new gallery with Soft Opening, featuring the works of artist/owner Ruth Ellen Hoag. Happy to be moved uptown, Hoag gives visitors a preview of new work, a peek at work in progress, as well as the schedule of studio classes and workshops.

Join us for another 1st Thursday at SuperMoss where preserved moss is center stage. Explore handcrafted pieces and discover unique plant arrangements in a relaxing, immersive green atmosphere. Meet fellow art and plant lovers, chat with crafters, and find something special to bring home from our locally-owned shop!

SB Fine Art and Heal the Ocean celebrate Liquid Corners, a painting by artist John Wullbrandt that was inspired by Heal the Ocean’s birthplace. All proceeds from Wulbrandt’s painting will benefit Heal the Ocean’s environmental efforts. “Liquid Corners,” an exclusive beer served by Rincon Brewery for a $5 donation.

Join us for an open house at the Music Academy of the West’s Music Education Center at 901 State Street. Explore the building today and preview renderings of what’s to come. Enjoy a glass of wine and learn about the future of music education and performance downtown!

IN THE PINK — A group show featuring flowers, pink sunsets and lots of robust abstracts in various media from oil and acrylic paintings, bronze, stone and resin sculptures, plus mixed media and encaustic. Image: Pamela Grau, Strange Flower, mixed media with encaustic, 12 x 12 inches. Through June 21.

Join us for a free and fun guided painting workshop with Creative Wellness Artist Khaatia Vantiger. For June  the theme will center around a bright hibiscus-and-bird composition with a warm summer sun atmosphere — something joyful and seasonal that reflects movement and arrival into summer. RSVP encouraged.

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)

Ensemble Theatre Company presents Every Brilliant Thing, Ice cream. In this luminous solo show, one man revisits his life through a list of every wonderful, delightful, and surprising thing that makes it worth living. Stop by our ticket office for buy-one-get-one free tickets on June 4th at 7:30pm.

Celebrate PRIDE with a queer artist showcase at Grassini in partnership with Soul Sucker and LouBud Wines. Enjoy complimentary tastings, discounted glasses, ceramics & visual art featuring work by Marina Grimmett, Rian Gladnick, lyra ramirez purugganan, Miriam MacMillan, Sammy Brenner, Mitchell Mark McCartney, & SOULSUCKER.