Art is coming to Santa Barbara’s downtown. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will host an exhibit titled “The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse” from Oct. 5 through Jan. 25. The museum, in ...

In the early months of the pandemic, those dark, disturbing days of 2020 when no one knew what sort of future would come, humans everywhere searched for signs of brightness and hope. There was an ...

Words and images usually work in tandem, but for some artists, letters themselves are visual forms – not messages to be read so much as shapes to be seen. “My background is in calligraphy,” said poet ...

Artists have an opportunity to have their work become part of Santa Rosa’s landscape for a couple of years. The city of Santa Rosa Public Art Walk Program has announced a call for up to 10 temporary ...

“This is not a gouté, or a buffet — this is a banquet of every major Impressionist artist,” says Paul Hayes Tucker, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has spent ...

The Grace Fisher Foundation and the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative are the recipients of the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture’s 2025 Santa Barbara Business in Art Award. The ...

Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. When local artist Helen Yanez paints, she is not only ...