1st Thursday Art Walk

Our Artist of the Month is Kelly Hildner. Kelly is a watercolor painter who captures the intricate beauty of the natural world in her work. Other featured artists include Darlene Roker and Sue Slater. The gallery is also having a special event, a call for art that is open to the community at large.

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)

Check out the Museum’s newest exhibitions, Cassatt & Friends, Stage Craft: Pictorialist Photography and Performance, and Elegies of Abstraction! Enjoy free admission from 5–8 pm. An opening party for these exhibitions will follow on November 13, with tickets available online.

Join us for another 1st Thursday at SuperMoss, where preserved moss takes center stage! Explore our collection of moss art and unique plant arrangements, meet fellow art and plant lovers, and connect with inspired crafters in a relaxing, immersive green atmosphere.

Join us for The Power of Possibility, a celebration of light, creativity, and community! Experience inspiring light art, live music, and hands-on activities for all ages. Celebrate Unite to Light’s 15-year milestone and 300,000+ solar lights distributed across 80+ countries. Discover what’s possible when we bring light and power to people without electricity.

Join Sullivan Goss Gallery at the opening reception for Beyond the Veil, Maria Rendon's third solo show of sublime abstractions with the gallery. Also on view, Mary-Austin Klein hyperrealist show Lucidity, and our Fall Salon of recent acquisitions and historic masterworks.

Join scientists from UCSB and experts from the community to explore how Pacific climate dynamics influence weather, coastal erosion, and ecosystems here in Santa Barbara. Discover the science behind the local impacts of El Niño. Listen to short presentations, a panel discussion, and Q&A. Enjoy live music.

This November, Gallery Josephine celebrates the art of giving with gratitude. Josephine Tournier Ingram marks her fourth year supporting CALM. Guests can learn how to bid on her original art and a private gallery soirée benefiting the November 6 Rosewood Miramar fundraiser, helping CALM prevent childhood trauma and help families heal.

In celebration of our exhibition Finding Saint Barbara, enjoy a tour by guest curator and historian Neal Graffy as he explores the highlights in art, sculpture and photography.

BessDISCARDIA: The Afterlife of Discarded Objects. An amusing exhibition by Dianne and Jim Bess. Most people visit thrift stores looking for something useful. Dianne and Jim went looking for trouble. Nearly two years later, they had assembled the whimsical objects into 600 bizarre and mischievous sculptures with rather quirky titles.

SBTHP & The SPACE invite you to Casa de la Guerra to experience Reclaiming Our Stories: Reflecting on the Land, a new exhibit developed by California Humanities focusing on the past, present, and future of the land that now makes up California, and its deep and continuing connections to California Native communities.

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!

The special feature this month is seeing the Studio works-in-progress with an eye for the Holidays. Small  and large paintings and all those in-between, colorful, fun, and festive, or serene and dream-like moods coming from the easel. In the Gallery, Bonnie Rubenstein’s powerfully curated eight are an intriguing delight.

Explore the Abstract Art Collective Member Show, featuring dynamic paintings from more than fifty artists. Enjoy the exhibition at the Faulkner Gallery November 2–30 (M–F 10am–7pm, Sat. 10am–5pm, Sun. 12–5pm). Don’t miss the November 5 (1st Thursday) reception, 5–7pm.

Join us as we welcome new artists to the shop. Textile Artist: Prina Tailor (Los Angeles), Ceramicists: Max Damon (Los Angeles) and Martha Day (Santa Barbara), and Sculptural Artist: Desmend Angel (Los Angeles). Stop by to learn about collaborations with Il Fustino, Creatiffity Studios, and Roemeria Mercantile with a special pop up.

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.

November brings a quiet beauty and a softer light to the coast. The golden hills deepen in color, and the Pacific shimmers beneath the skies, changes in seasons, light and shadows as we move from Fall to Winter. (Painting by local artist, Sam Winkelmeyer: "Rain Incoming," 24 x 48, oil on canvas)

This month at Game Seeker, we’re featuring the photographic works of Kayla Pence Bales. Kayla combines photography, mixed media, and fine art processes to create landscapes that feel both familiar and unexpected. Each unique piece reflects her experiences and memories, while exploring where she’s been, where she is, and what comes next.

Join us for an evening with photographers Brian Kuhlman and Joslyn Lawrence, the artists behind Song of Absolution. Through a slideshow and artist talk, explore their evocative photographs of trees from around the world and our local landscape, whose moody, painterly quality captures the quiet beauty and mystery of nature. Talk begins at 6pm.

The Center For Psychotherapy and Integrative Health featuring the work of Barbara Romain.

We invite you to experience The Willard Suitcase Project, featuring Jon Crispin’s evocative photographs of suitcases left behind by patients at New York’s Willard Psychiatric Center. These deeply personal belongings reveal forgotten lives and stories, inviting reflection on dignity, identity, and mental health. Presented in support of Santa Barbara’s New Beginnings nonprofit organization.

Burgandy Viscosi's painting exploration began following a death experience from a severe car accident at age 20. "This deeply profound experience transformed my understanding of physical reality.” Her life is dedicated to visually conveying profound insight into how frequency serves as a bridge between Spirit and the physical world.

Join us for a fun guided painting workshop with the incredible Alisha “Lish” Muller. Her step-by-step painting classes are relaxed, upbeat, and designed for all ages. No pressure, just good vibes, bold colors and creative fun! 5-7pm.

ARTICULATIONS: 12 artists expressing human connections that span from our relationship to the universe to basic connections like feeling the joy of sunlight on your face. Local and regional contemporary work: paintings, sculptures and digital mixed media. Image: James Petrucci, Symbiosis. 22 x 30 inches. Through Nov. 29.

Join us at SBCAST for an enchanting evening of Vedic wisdom, sensory explorations, and a culinary feast celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Discover Ayurveda, experience Agnihotra, a Vedic practice performed live at sunset, and enjoy a fascinating 30-minute documentary screening throughout the evening. Come curious, leave inspired!

Explore the Chanel in Vogue photography exhibition from New York, courtesy of Thames & Hudson, featuring Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and others, alongside Chanel archival materials. Hear recordings from a former Chanel technical fashion designer and the Consul General of France. Enjoy wine with a book purchase or museum donation.

Discover In Studio, an exhibition of large-scale abstract paintings by Chicago-based artist Julie Anderson Mathias. Blending architectural precision with playful experimentation, Julie A. M. transforms vibrant colors into dynamic compositions. Explore her creative process through studio photographs and miniature gallery models, and experience the joyful possibilities of abstract art at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery.