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Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: FREE Adult: $5.00 Senior (age 65+): $3.00 Child (ages 6-17): $3.00 Under 6: FREE Get Tickets Members & Friends Evening Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Join SBMA for a special evening in the galleries! Enjoy after-hours access to the Museum as well as tasty bites and specialty sips. Take in the mesmerizing works of Tatsuo Miyajima , and catch your last chance to see Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper and The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art . Includes two drink tickets. Space is limited. Get your tickets today! Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: $10.00 General Admission: $15.00 Get Tickets Art Matters - Michelangelo: Burning Inspiration Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Julian Brooks , Senior Curator of Drawing, J. Paul Getty Museum Michelangelo is regarded as one of the most creative artists in western art history, using countless drawings to explore the dynamics of the human form and to solve compositional problems. Yet he is recorded as burning hundreds – perhaps thousands – of his sketches and cartoons. Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks into the extraordinary phenomenon of Michelangelo and his draftsmanship. Ticket Cost: SBMA Member (Curators' Patron & above): FREE SBMA Member (Collector's Patron and below): $10.00 General Admission: $15.00 Student (Valid student ID required): FREE Get Tickets Tatsuo Miyajima: In Conversation Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Internationally renowned Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima ingeniously crafts vividly glowing objects and installations from today's technology that create infinite worlds of being, space and time, all informed by his Buddhist practice. Miyajima will speak about his work in conversation with Charles Wylie, SBMA Curator of Photograph and New Media. Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Tatsuo Miyajima is the artist's first solo U.S. museum exhibition in over two decades and will be on view through April 19. credit: Tatsuo Miyajima, Time Waterfall-panel #12 , 2018. Computer graphics, LED display. Installation view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, December 22, 2019 – April 19, 2020 Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: FREE General Admission: $10.00 Senior (age 65+): $6.00 Get Tickets Writing in the Galleries Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum's galleries as an impetus to writing. Each session is led by a visiting writer/facilitator who begins with a conversation and prompts, partially inspired by works on view. Participants are free to write on their own and then reconvene as a group to share and comment on each other's work. Please bring a journal or notebook, laptop, or tablet on which to write. Instructor: Andrew Winer, Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, UC Riverside Ticket Cost: General Admission: FREE Get Tickets Armchair Travel Lecture – Fun, Facts & Folklore: Cuisine and Culture of French Polynesia with Mara Papatheodorou Sunday, February 23, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Join Mara Papatheodorou, a former travel editor at Bon Appétit and culinary expert, on a virtual journey to French Polynesia, in celebration of SBMA’s upcoming tour there. Learn all about Tahitian culture and cuisine, tastes and traditions, fact and folklore. A popular guest lecturer, commentator, panelist/judge, and presenter about food, travel, and entertaining, Papatheodorou promises to transport guests across the Pacific Ocean to the islands of French Polynesia to explore its rich culinary history and culture. Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: $5.00 General Admission: $10.00 Get Tickets Sketching in the Galleries Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials. Ticket Cost: General Admission: FREE Get Tickets Parallel Stories - Jane Smiley: Love Comes First Beauty Follows Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm “A novelist has two lives—a reading and writing life, and a lived life. He or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.” Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel Parallel Stories takes a close look at the life-long passions, prodigious productivity, and well-honed writing practice of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley in a far-ranging conversation with longtime friend, fellow author, and colleague in the Creative Writing program at UC Riverside, Andrew Winer. Often epic in scale and yet intimate in telling detail, Smiley’s multigenerational tales tell the story of middle America written, says Winer, “with a classic sense of humanity and compassion that have made her name part of any serious conversation about fiction in our time.” Hailed as one of America’s greatest living writers, Smiley was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, and in 2006 she received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Her intimate evocations of American life have been compared to John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy; Updike himself praised Smiley for working on what he called “the edge of acceptable novel writing,” where she had replaced “plot and suspense with something freer and more lifelike.“ Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: $5.00 General Admission: $10.00 Senior (age 65+): $6.00 Get Tickets Armchair Travel Lecture – The Mysterious Origins of Our Favorite Foods: The Global Travels of David Fairchild and His Team with Daniel Stone Sunday, March 1, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Hear from author Daniel Stone about the true story of an American food spy who traveled the world and transformed what America eats. Ticket Cost: SBMA Member: $5.00 General Admission: $10.00 Get Tickets Art Matters - Frederick Hammersley and the Art of Control Thursday, March 5, 2020 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm James Glisson , Chief Curator, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Beginning in the late 1940s, Frederick Hammersley experimented with artworks that had a limited range of shapes and color choices often created through elaborate procedures and scripted processes. As this lecture will explore, Hammersley used control as way to free himself, to open his mind to new ideas, to play. It will begin by focusing on the SBMA’s Hammersley painting, Four awhile (1974), and will share insights drawn from scientific analysis and archival research. The discussion will conclude by expanding the discussion to other artists from the mid-20th century who applied rules to structure their art making. Ticket Cost: SBMA Member (Curators' Patron & above): FREE SBMA Member (Collector's Patron and below): $10.00 General Admission: $15.00 Student (Valid student ID required): FREE Get Tickets Parallel Stories - Juan Felipe Herrera: Writing Love in the Face of Disaster Sunday, March 8, 2020 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm “I’m a political poet—let us say a human poet, a poet that’s concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that’s what I’m going ...