SBMA's Spring Programs for kids & families

Our 2010 Spring brochure of programs for kids & families is available to download now!

Check out our exciting new programs: Family 1st Thursdays on - guess what - the first Thursday of each month with inspirational hands-on art activities for all ages. On the last Sundays of the month we invite you to three informal yet informative Family Conversations in the exhibition Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th-Century Painting from the Walters Art Museum which opens this Sunday!

Please click here for the brochure: http://www.sbma.net/programs/education/artclass.asp

Enrollment now also starts for our Spring ArtVenture Camp which is designed around the Masterpieces exhibition. For an enrollment form please click here: http://www.sbma.net/programs/education/artclass.asp

Winter ArtVenture Camps: Enroll Now!

California Calling
December 21 - 24, 2009
9am – 3pm
From Bay Area Funk to LA Pop Surrealism: be inspired by the artists in the Museum’s exhibition California Calling and create your own art that is inventive, eccentric and non-conformist!

Magic Makeover
December 28 – 31, 2009
9am – 3pm
Explore change as a concept in art in a variety of creative art projects inspired by the Monarch Butterfly Project video installation by Diana Thater on view at the Museum.


In the first week campers will follow the call of the exhibition California Calling and draw funky whimsical animals like Roy de Forest, collage poetically like William Dole, and pour a plaster sculpture inspired by ceramicist Peter Voulkos.
The second week leading to New Years will be all about change and transformation as our young budding artists will paint large scale self-portraits, draw cartoons, and model sculptures that are all inter-connected.
Both camps include a visit to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Please click here to print out an enrollment form: http://www.sbma.net/programs/education/artclass.asp

For more information on the exhibition California Calling click here:
http://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/current5.asp

For more information on the exhibition Diana Thater: Butterflies and Other People click here:
http://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/current3.asp

We are looking forward to integrating art into the lives of your children!

Monika Molnar-Metzenthin
Manager of ArtVentures Programs

Phone: 962.1661
Fax: 962.5052
Email: rtec@sbma.net

California Calling Holiday Ornaments

Come to the Museum today from 5:30 - 7:30 during 1st Thursdays and create your California Calling Holiday Ornament! We'll have palm trees, cacti, sail boats, dolphins, stars, angels and stars and lots of shiny and glittery things to decorate them!

Family 1st Thursday

Tamayo Angel
based on "El Fumador" (The Smoker), Rufino Tamaya, 1947
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Join us at the newly re-opened Family Resource Center at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Thursday, December 3, 5:30 - 7:30 for fun art activities.

Create your own Tamayo inspired Holiday Cards or decorate a California Calling ornament!

Programs for Kids and Families - Winter 2009/10

Winter 2009/10 brochures should be arriving at your house today!
We hope you'll like our "new look" as much as we do.



Inside you'll find an array of Museum programs geared to kids and families, from Family First Thursdays on December 3rd, over an Icecream Social Sundae on December 6th, to two exciting Winter ArtVenture Camps, Dec 21 - 24 and Dec 28 - 31.

Downlaod a brochure and the enrollment form at http://www.sbma.net/programs/education/artclass.asp or pick one up at your next visit to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Museum Manners

The Chicago Art Institute produced this cartoon for teen and tween audiences to prepare them for their Museum visit.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/podcasts/video/education_videos/yourmuseumvisit

Art and Babies: You are never to young to visit an Art Museum!

Great article/talk by Edward Goldman of KCRW on the benefits of taking children of any age to the art museum:

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at091110art_and_babies

Please check here in a couple of weeks to learn more about our upcoming series of "Family Conversations" on Sunday mornings at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.