Now at the CAW
Santa Barbara Printmakers Present:
Introduction to Japanese Woodcut Printing
Saturday, February 22, 2025
From the organizer:
In this one-day workshop, you will be learning the mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Printing) process and completing a beautiful handmade print.
The workshop fee for instruction is $80 for members and $100 for nonmembers. The supply kit for the workshop is $65
Instructor Sara Woodburn has studied mokuhanga (meaning wood + print) with Hiroki Morinoe of Hawaii, and April Vollmer of New York (author of Japanese Woodblock Print). Her work has been featured at Sullivan Goss Gallery, California Nature Art Museum, Elverhoj Museum, Marcia Burtt Gallery and the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara.
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The Santa Barbara Printmakers (SBP) is a group of artists dedicated to creating and presenting prints that are made using hand and press printing techniques: etching, dry point, monotype, monoprint, woodblock, collagraph, linocut, clay, lithography, stencil, serigraphy, transfer, and digital programming.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
Art KIT: Career Planning & Time Management
Sunday, March 9th, 1 - 3pm at the Community Arts Workshop
$10
Career Planning & Successful Time Management is a two-hour workshop designed to support artists in planning the next steps in their career and tackling the balancing act of studio time and everything else. Participants will learn practical skills, engage with fellow creatives, and dive deep into the blocks that keep us from our work.
Madi Manson, fine artist and business owner of Loudflower Art Co will speak to the group about her experiences as a maker and a business owner.
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Art KIT is facilitated by Adrienne De Guevara, sculptor, social practice artist, and programs and fund development manager for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. De Guevara is an experienced group facilitator, fundraiser, and art administrator.
Madi Manson is an artist and small business owner who, born and raised in Ojai, has called Santa Barbara home since 2016. She runs and operates Loud Flower Art Co, an emotionally screen printed line of apparel and homegoods with designs that help people feel their feelings and know they are in community with that work.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative and Patrick Melroy of MISC Workshop Present:
Area Meeting
Tues, March 11, 6pm at the Community Arts Workshop
$10
Area Meeting returns monthly to the CAW in 2025. Curated by Patrick Melroy, the event will serve as a rally point for the creatives in our community. An excuse for us to be in the same place, a place which will inspire the right kind of imaginative friction. The first part of the evening will showcase a presenting artist and will set the tone for the night, lighting the question furnace in the minds of the attendees. After a social break fueled by snacks, invited artists will present work in a supportive crit-style environment.
Area Meeting is for anyone who has ever read a wall placard at a gallery and found themselves with more questions than answers. Area Meeting is for the artist who needs to hear from other artists about the struggle, about the broken tools, the constant haunting of a studio space by specters of doubt and conflict as they battle to be heard through their work.
Area Meeting will repeat monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. More information about March's Meeting will be forthcoming.
Visual Arts and Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School Presents:
The VADA Draw
Art Lottery and Cocktail Party
Saturday March 15, 5-7PM
From the organizer:
Please join us in helping fund VADA – a one-of-a-kind public school arts education program.
Enjoy a fabulous party with local food, drink, music and community. Guests go home with an original piece of art generously donated by professional artists working in and around Santa Barbara.
The VADA DRAW raises more than 40 percent of VADA’s annual budget, funding art education for more than 300 student artists.
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The Visual Arts and Design Academy (VADA) is a small learning community at Santa Barbara High School for students in 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. VADA is a unique “school-within-a-school” that integrates rigorous academic coursework with project-based, career-focused art and design instruction, in a supportive and creative environment.
Since 1999, VADA has been a California Partnership Academy funded in equal parts by the California Department of Education, the Santa Barbara Unified School District, and the Friends of VADA, a 501 ©(3) nonprofit organization.
Desmadre Media Presents:
The Backyard Boogie
Night Market, Car Show, Music, Food, and More
March 22, 5PM
From the organizer:
A night of culture!
Curated night market, lowriders, art, food, and more!
All-vinyl DJ's with special guest Funk Freaks.
All Ages.
Tickets $25-30.
With questions contact Info@desmadremundial.com or 661-417-6022
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Desmadre Media, a project by Alex Ramirez, is an event business that focuses on multicultural events in Santa Barbara. Our main goal is to bring awareness and showcase the talent we have here locally through art shows, concerts, fundraisers, markets, and more. We just want to give a spotlight to anyone who is doing something great in the community.
Eric Saint-Georges Presents:
Figure Drawing Workshop
Saturday March 29th, 9am-12:30pm
From the organizer:
The goal of this short workshop is to give an introduction to tools and methods one can use to improve the liveliness and expression of quick gestural drawings of the human form.
Focusing on short poses (mostly 30 seconds to 2 minutes), students will practice techniques and exercises to develop hand-eye coordination and learn strategies for gesture drawings (such as in which order to start and develop the drawing) and improve their ability to draw quickly and
expressively.
This workshop is appropriate for all levels including beginners. Demos and hands-on critiques are an important part of the instruction.
Cost: $60. Model fee is included but tips are appreciated. Materials are not provided.
Recommended supply list will be provided to registered participants.
Tables and chairs will be available, but participants are strongly encouraged to bring an easel.
To Register, or with questions, email Eric Saint Georges at ericsgc@hawaii.edu or text 408-455-3033.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
The Community Arts Residency
Application Deadline March 30, 2025, 5pm
More information at sbcaw.org/residency
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is delighted to announce a new artist-in-residence program, based at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW), for art work that builds community, fosters genuine conversation, reckons with social disconnection, and/or feeds local democracy and relationships between disparate people and groups. All artistic genres and disciplines will be considered.
Projects will be awarded grants of between $5,000 and $15,000, receive one month or more of workshop space at the Community Arts Workshop, and the dedicated time of SBAC staff to facilitate community collaborations. The SBAC will fund 1-3 residency projects to take place in 2025-26.
The application deadline is March 30, 2025, 5pm.
For more information please visit sbcaw.org/residency.
Use the CAW
The CAW collaborates to empower and provide affordable space for art projects of all kinds. Have an idea? Use the CAW.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative works to maintain the CAW as a "blank canvas" for as wide a diversity of arts uses and users as possible, providing space and collaborating with project initiators to make their ideas a success for the benefit of the broader community, and supporting and cultivating collaborations between artists and arts organizations, community groups, the business community, non-profit organizations and the entire community.
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