BUILDING A FUTURE WORTH REMEMBERING
The Flying A: Silent Film In Santa Barbara
The Flying A exhibition will focus on the studio’s influential and prolific operation in Santa Barbara between 1912 and 1921, when nearly one thousand silent films were made by the studio before it was closed. The exhibition features original Flying A artifacts, documents, photographs and a selection of original Flying A silent films (which will play on our Sala Gallery Wall Theatre). This groundbreaking exhibit, on view from January 26 through August 19, 2012, will run through the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, a
nd mark the centennial anniversary of the Flying A’s arrival in Santa Barbara.
Join us for a nostalgic glimpse of our city's contribution to the film industry with a presentation by lecturer-historian Neal Graffy, “A Liar, A Drunk & A Piano Teacher - The Story of the Flying A.”
February 1st, 11:00 am
February 3rd, 11:00 am
February 3rd, 2:00 pm
Museum members and SBIFF platinum passholders are complimentary. Guests are $10.
Reservations highly recommended. For more information contact the Museum at 966-1601.
PERMANENT EXHIBIT:
The Story of Santa Barbara
Permanent Installation
Tracing Santa Barbara's history from the Chumash to the twentieth century
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Missions of Will Sparks
The landmark exhibition will feature 25 works by internationally renowned plein-air artist Clyde Aspevig. As one of the preeminent artists in his field, Aspevig has been honored with numerous awards including the Autry National Center’s John J. Geraghty Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Masters of the American West. A native of rural Montana, Aspevig points out that “living on the prairie…taught me about distance and the mysteries that distance creates, how a perfectly blue sky changes in subtle hues and textures, how shadows change color, depending on how far away they are.”
Featured on the cover of American Art Review
Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), who is widely recognized as the foremost painter of early twentieth-century architecture, came to Santa Barbara in 1921 to join the faculty of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. While living here he executed many alluring paintings of the gardens and buildings that characterized the community during the 1920s and 1930s.
The exhibition, Lasting Impressions: Colin Campbell Cooper, features more than thirty works depicting scenes of Europe, India and the East Coast as well as many California sites from San Francisco to San Diego. Of local interest are paintings of the Samarkand and El Encanto Hotels, Santa Barbara Mission, and local private gardens.
Santa Barbara has been home to an artistic colony of major
significance for more than one hundred years, the most important art center
between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Playing a key role in this standing was
the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Founded in 1920, the School boasted a
faculty of enormous talent mentoring thousands of students, many of whom went
on to build major careers as artists in their own right.
Portraits in Paradise: The Photography of Carolyn and Edwin Gledhill, 1906-1944
Shortly after their
marriage in 1907, Carolyn and Edwin Gledhill began their life-long careers as
portrait photographers with the opening of The Gledhill Portraits studio.
After several years of working independently and together, the Gledhills
established themselves as THE portait photographers of Santa Barbara cultural
and social elite during the first half of the 20Th century.
Guiding Lights: Teachers at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts, 1920-1938
Featured on the cover of American Art Review
Works of art by the distinguished instructors of historic Santa Barbara School of the Arts, including Colin Campbell Cooper, John Marshall Gamble, John Edward Borein, and many others. Santa Barbara has been home to an artistic colony of major significance for over one hundred years, the most important art center between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Playing a key role in this standing was the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Founded in 1920, the School boasted a faculty of enormous talent mentoring thousands of students, many of whom went on to build major careers as artists in their own right.
