Now at the CAW
The Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Celebration Presents:
The 2025 Solstice Parade!
The Workshop Opens May 14, through June 21st
Workshop Opening Reception May 17, 3-6 PM
Open Hours: Wed-Fri. 3-8 PM, Sat. Sun Noon to 6 PM
Come get involved!
From the Organizer:
Be part of the Summer Solstice Parade!
If you’re a little shy, you can still come and be part of the making of the Parade, learn how to make masks, costumes and build floats, be creative! It’s not about being talented. It’s about having fun! Solstice supplies the materials along with a dedicated staff of artists, tech people, costumers, and mask makers who will teach, guide, and mentor you in this fun community art project.
The Santa Barbara Solstice Celebration begins with the Community Arts Workshop. It hosts a diverse cross-section of the Santa Barbara community working side-by-side on their magical creations, and features a special Children’s Area designed to encourage kids and their parents to participate in artistic expression and creativity. People from all economic groups, able-bodied to disabled, all derive joy in this communal project.
All participants must register as part of the Workshop and/or Parade.
Click to below to register for the workshop and/or Parade.
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Solstice is a an independent, community oriented non-profit devoted to promoting hands-on community participation in the arts, dedicated to multi-cultural visual and performing arts. Solstice produces a parade and 3-day festival as well as providing a 2 month workshop where participants create the people-powered parade with the assistance of Solstice artists, largely out of recycled and repurposed materials. The parade is the largest arts event in Santa Barbara County, drawing crowds of over 100,000 spectators from around the world.
Vanae Rivera and The Starfish Connection Present:
MIND THE GAP
Art market and gallery highlighting mindfulness and community
Saturday July 19th 10am-7pm
Mind The Gap is an annual free art event highlighting mindfulness and to benefit The Starfish Connection — a non-profit providing gap and crisis funding to families in our community.
From the organizer:
We’re thrilled to announce the return of MIND THE GAP: Art Market & Gallery Show, hosted once again at the beautiful Community Arts Workshop on Saturday, July 19th!
This year’s event will feature a vibrant outdoor Art Market showcasing a wide variety of artist booths with handmade creations, along with a separately curated gallery show highlighting some of Santa Barbara’s favorite artists.
Hosted by The Starfish Connection, a portion of all event proceeds will benefit this incredible nonprofit dedicated to building thriving communities through crisis funding and storytelling.
Come for the art, stay for the community:
- Browse original work from local artists
- Sip wine or a local brew in the beer garden
- Share your story at our signature TALK-O-TRUCK
- Celebrate connection, creativity, and compassion
More information and vendor application link at thestarfishconnection.org/events.
10 Local Artists, in Collaboration with the CAW, Present:
Little Shop of Hoarders
Art Show — Artist Swap Meet — Pancakes
"Where Chaos meets Curation"
Art Show Opening Night: Friday Sept. 12, 5PM to 8PM
Swap Meet: Saturday Sept. 13, 9AM - 3PM
Gallery show runs Sept 12-21, open hours Fridays 10AM to 5PM, and by appointment. (Text 805-324-7443.)
From the organizer:
Twenty five Barbie heads, fifteen glass door knobs, two thousand burned matches... assemblage artists are notorious collectors.
Whether you are an assemblage artist or not, Little Shop of Hoarders Swap Meet is your opportunity to clear out the storage unit, the garage, your secret stash of postage stamps… and all the money you make from sales you keep.
Little Shop of Hoarders was the brain child of Michael Long and Sue Van Horsen who thought they would invite their artists friends and others to participate in a “junk“ extravaganza at the CAW. So...
Sign up for a vendors' space now! Space is limited. The Swap Meet is 9/13, one day only.
Got… Ephemera, Junk, Treasures, Antiques, Art, Assemblage Fixin’s, Collage Collateral? Little Shop of Hoarders is for you! BUT THERE’S MORE!
LITTLE SHOP OF HOARDERS ART SHOW — Opening Night Friday Sept. 12, 5PM to 8PM
Ten Local Assemblage/Collage Artists have been invited to participate in the Little Shop of Hoarders Art Show. Featured Artists: Adrienne De Guevara, Leslie Ekker, Gisele Grable, Skip Lau, Dan LeVin, Michael Long, Vanae Rivera, Dug Uyesaka, Sue Van Horsen, and Frank Whipple.
ARTIST SWAP MEET — Saturday Sept. 13, 9AM - 3PM
PANCAKE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER — Saturday Sept. 13, 9AM - 1PM
Lead pancake flipper: Patrick Melroy. Proceeds go to the CAW.
Gallery show runs Sept 12-21, open hours Fridays 10AM to 5PM, and by appointment. (Text 805-324-7443.)
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.
Find out more about how you can use the CAW here:
The SBAC facilitates the use of the CAW by artists, nonprofits, and community groups of all types; fostering exploration, conversation, collaboration, and connection to further its mission to sustain and grow all forms of the arts in Santa Barbara. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the users’ own, and do not necessarily represent those of the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. The SBAC welcomes all in the work to sustain and grow the unique cultural ecology of our community.