Now at the CAW
The Art Process with Kathy Leader Presents:
Mixed Media Collage Composition
Find your compositional style in abstract mixed media
February 28th, 10am-1:00pm
From the organizer:
Using gel plate prints, collage material and paints, we will explore the various ways to create simplified abstract compositions through the art process. Extra collage papers will be provided, for this is an all levels class.
With questions email: theartprocess@yahoo.com
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The Art Process provides various opportunities for all levels from those who want to explore their creative voice for the first time to those more experienced creatives who would like our inspirational guidance.
Not Half Bad Theatre Company Presents:
The Story of War
A Comedic One-Man Show!
March 7th and 8th at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
From the organizer:
When Wathel Rogers, the inventor of animatronics, separated from the Disney company, he set out to create the greatest animatronic show of all time. His creation told the history of warfare, and he called it The Story of War. This is that show. Dillon Yuhasz takes you on a journey from the stone age to modern times as both man and animatronic robot in this strange tale of violence, greed, and dancing pirates.
- 18+
- Strong Language
- Adult Themes
- Gunshots
- Runtime is approximately 1 hour.
With questions email: nothalfbadtheatre@gmail.com
More information at nothalfbad.org.
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Dillon Yuhasz has been performing in Santa Barbara his entire life. An entrepreneur, writer, improviser, puppeteer, singer, and actor, he is known for his high-energy, ambitious one-man productions that push the limits of what one person can (or should) try to do on stage.
You may have seen Dillon most recently as the title role in SBCC’s production of Young Frankenstein, but his true passion lies in building exciting worlds from scratch with bold and unique characters. Over the past few years, he’s written, produced, directed, and performed a string of original one-man shows, including Faces of Magic and All My Actors Are Dead.
Not Half Bad Theatre was created in collaboration with Brittany Ragan. She serves as production manager, prop and set designer, head of marketing, stagehand, as well as the company’s lead vibe checker... shaping each production by having an answer when Dillon asks, “Do you think it’s okay if I do [insert wild idea here]?”
Daniel Kanow, Founder of Break Through Your Art Presents:
2-Day Expressive Painting and Drawing Creative Workshop
Rediscover Creativity Through Play, Process, and Presence
March 7 & 8, 2026 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
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From the organizer:
Daniel Kanow, nationally exhibiting artist, artist coach, creative facilitator, and founder of BreakThrough Your Art TM, invites you to a focused 2-day hands-on painting and drawing intensive that blends neuroscience-backed creative practices, flow psychology, and embodied expression.
In this small-group experience you will:
Reignite your creative intelligence through loose, playful mark-making.
Explore your personal narrative and express your story through your own choice of figuration, the landscape, the portrait, or purely non-objective.
Quiet stress and overthinking by embracing risk and experimentation.
Unlock fresh perspectives and sharper problem-solving through meaningful ideation.
Deepen trust, empathy, and authentic connection with others in the room.
No painting or drawing experience is needed — only a willingness to show up and play.
All art materials are provided.
Bring your own easel if you have one, or work comfortably at the table.
Ideal for professionals seeking clarity or renewal, leaders who want to expand their creative capacity, and small teams or partners looking to strengthen alignment and connection.
You will leave with guided exercises, reflection tools, and meaningful personal works of art you created to take home.
Daniel Kanow, Certified Grief Educator Presents:
Art 4 Grief Support Group
A Creative Path Through Grief
March 9 & 16, 2026: 6-8pm
From the organizer:
A gentle, supportive sequence for anyone navigating loss, transition, illness, identity change, or emotional overwhelm.
Facilitated by Daniel Kanow — Certified Grief Educator trained in the methodology of world-renowned grief expert David Kessler — these two evening sessions use guided expressive art techniques to create a compassionate space where grief can be safely felt, visually expressed, and gently transformed.
You do not need to be an artist.
You do not need any art experience.
You only need to arrive exactly as you are.
Through simple, guided creative processes we honor the rocky terrain of grief and give it form, color, and voice — often bringing unexpected relief, insight, and a sense of companionship.
All art materials provided. Bring your own easel if you have one, or work at the table.
Two consecutive Monday evenings offer a supportive rhythm — a creative companion on the grief journey.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
Area Meeting
A Place for Creative Exchange
Tuesday March 10th, 6-8pm
$12
At its core, Area Meeting is an open forum where the local creative community can gather to explore the meaning behind art and the processes driving it. The event features a keynote presentation from a career artist who will share images of their work, giving a place-in-time snapshot of their practice. This talk will explore the intricacies, struggles, and breakthroughs of a life devoted to art, setting the tone for an evening designed to spark new ideas, questions, and connections.
Beyond the keynote, the highlight of Area Meeting is the open critique sessions. Selected artists will present their physical work—unfinished pieces, experimental projects, or newly completed works—inviting direct input from attendees. Led by facilitator Patrick Melroy and other guest facilitators, these candid, respectful critiques grant audiences a unique window into an artist’s thought process before the work has been sealed with a final opinion. It’s a rare opportunity for both artists and viewers to engage in meaningful, two-way dialogue not typically available in traditional gallery or museum settings.
The March 10th Area Meeting keynote speaker will be Erin Smith of a ceramic artist and designer based in Santa Barbara, currently serving as Studio Director at Maker House. With an MFA from Alfred University and a background in product design and entrepreneurship, her interdisciplinary practice bridges industrial design, craft, and material research. For more information about her work visit: erinlynnsmith.studio.
Area Meeting is a Program organized and run by the Arts Collaborative.
For more information, or to inquire about presenting, contact Adrienne De Guevara at adrienne@artscollaborative.org.
The VADA Program at Santa Barbara High School Presents:
VADA Draw
Local Artists Support Young Artists
March 14th, 7-10pm
From the organizer:
Why come to the VADA Draw?
Because it’s where art, community, and celebration come together. Each year, local artists generously donate original art pieces that are raffled off at the VADA Draw event—meaning every guest goes home with a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Add in a fabulous party featuring local food and beverages, music, and a room full of creative energy, and you’ve got an unforgettable night that directly supports future artists. It’s more than an event—it’s a celebration of local talent, generosity, and community spirit.
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The Visual Arts and Design Academy (VADA) is a small learning community at Santa Barbara High School with about 225 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.
Lumina Nostri Presents:
Creative Cluster
Artist Way Creativity Course
Monday Nights 5:30-7:30PM beginning Jan 26 and ending April 20
What happens when you nurture your creativity?
From the organizer:
Lumina Nostri’s Sarah Emma Ruth is facilitating a 12 week exploration of Julia Cameron’s Artist way on Mondays from 5:30-7:30 starting January 26th.
Designed to reconnect us with our Creative within, the class can be enjoyed both as a drop in experience or full-season commitment.
The book, Artist Way by Julia Cameron, can be checked out at the library, purchased from Chaucers or ThriftBooks, or you can come in and experience it through hearsay.
The magic of this experience is the in-person community. As we deepen our connection to ourselves and the material, we become expanders for one another’s experience. This course is action-oriented, and aims to begin to answer to the question what happens when we invest in our own creativity.
The group is only open to Women and Gender minorities this round. 🙏
With questions and to sign up, e-mail luminanostri@gmail.com or go to https://bit.ly/luminanostri.
More information about the organizer.
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Sarah Emma Ruth, de Lumina Nostri, impartirá un curso de 12 semanas sobre El Camino del Artista, escrito por Julia Cameron, los lunes de 17:30 a 19:30pm. Diseñado para reconectarnos con nuestra creatividad interior, el curso se puede disfrutar tanto de forma puntual como con un compromiso para toda la temporada.
El libro El camino del artista, de Julia Cameron, se puede consultar en la biblioteca, comprar en Chaucers o ThriftBooks, o puedes venir y experimentarlo de primera mano.
La magia de esta experiencia es la comunidad presencial. A medida que profundizamos nuestra conexión con nosotros mismos y con el material, nos convertimos en amplificadores de la experiencia de los demás. Este curso está orientado a la acción y tiene como objetivo comenzar a responder a la pregunta de qué sucede cuando invertimos en nuestra propia creatividad.
El grupo solo está abierto a mujeres y minorías de género en esta ronda.
Para cualquier consulta o para registrarse, envíe un correo electrónico a luminanostri@gmail.com o visite https://bit.ly/luminanostrisp.
Mark McCormick, AIA, Presents:
Emergence
February 6-27 2026
Opening Reception Friday February 13th 5-8pm
Gallery hours Fridays Feb. 6, 20, 27 10am-5pm, and Feb 13 11:15am-5pm, and by Appointment
A Solo Exhibit Of Paintings And Painted Pallets
From the organizer:
Mark McCormick is an architect, practicing from 1980-present. For him architecture is a process of exploration, discovery, and ideally fulfillment, within the context of exhaustive rules and regulations.
For him art has only one rule: seeking to communicate with the viewer. Making art offers the freedom to process and express life’s ups and downs good and bad, and the joys and a series of painful losses and failures.
With questions contact Mark@mccormickarch.com
Mark’s son Malcolm (aka hip hop artist Mac Miller) passed on September 7th, 2018 from an accidental overdose. Thanks to his music, videos, stories, and messages, Malcom continues to inspire Mark to make art.
This exhibition is dedicated to his memory.
Tayllor and Ademola Oyewole-Davis Present:
Storytelling is the Revolution
What's Your Story?
Tuesday & Thursday 5-7pm Poetry Workshops for All
First Workshop: Tuesday December 2nd, 5pm
Showcase and Exhibition March 2026
Free!
At the Community Arts Workshop
Part of the SBAC Community Arts Residency Program
Create art that no only moves people but also moves the community forward.
Tayllor and Ademola Oyewole-Davis, artists and poets in the 2025-26 Community Arts Residency, are hosting and curating a poetic experience that celebrates all our stories and connects us as a community.
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Two FREE poetry workshops a week, starting in December, at the Community Arts Workshop
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Workshops are open to all (18+ years). Bring something to write with and on! Refreshments are provided.
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A safe community space for members to share their stories and write about them through poetry. We will support members in the writing, editing, and performance process, inviting members to perform in the exhibition in the March 2026.
Who Should Participate?
Anyone! All levels of experience are welcome, from no experience to a lot. The workshops seek to bring together people from all walks of life.
What's the Time Commitment?
Feel free to drop in for just one evening and see what it is about, or commit to as much as you choose. The workshops will build to a concluding showcase, but the point is to give our community a chance to write, share stories, and build connections.
About the Artists
Tayllor Oyewole-Davis is an educator, social impact strategist, and internationally recognized poet. As Founder of Sisterhood(verb), Inc., she merges the arts with community engagement to create sustainable, creative spaces. As Executive Assistant & Artist in Residence at The Riviera Ridge School, she develops arts-integrated programs and partnerships. Her work has been featured in global anthologies, galleries, and stages. Tayllor has presented at national conferences and received honors like the H. Elizabeth Braun Catalyst for Change Award. She holds an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU and a B.A. in Psychology from Mount Holyoke College.
Ademola Oyewole-Davis is a Brooklyn-born singer, songwriter, poet, educator, and activist who has performed since age eight. His artistry spans the U.S., with recent collaborations alongside his father, Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, and his upcoming solo project, "Lib(er)ation." With over seven years of teaching experience through Urban Word NYC and independent schools, Ademola cultivates creative, critical learning environments that empower everyone to speak truth and pursue justice.
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.