Santa Barbara Studio Artists: A Place for Art Lovers
While staying at any of the Santa Barbara hotels, you might want to find your interest in arts and go to a certain place such as the Santa Barbara Studio Artists. In Santa Barbara, there are two art galleries or studios – one is the Santa Barbara Studio Artists and the other is the Santa Barbara Visual Arts Alliance. There at Santa Barbara Studio Artists, you can find beautiful and amazing art represented by America’s top artists.
S.B.S.A. is aiming to make Santa Barbara a place recognized as a tourist destination for the arts. The art studio is a non-cemmercialized organization built by a group of professional fine artists. These professional fine artists are in charge of the studios which are open for public viewing, with an appoiontment beforehand. So if you are staying in a Santa Barbara hotel, you can make a call first for an appointment to go to the gallery. Every artist has his/her own studio which you are free to visit after making the appointment with the artist. All the artists of S.B.S.A. live and work within Santa Barbara, California.
If you are on vacation especially on Labor Day, you can catch the annual studio tour. S.B.S.A. holds the yearly-anticipated Labor Day Weekend Open Studios Tour for The Arts Fund’s benefit. Since 2001, every Labor Day Weekend has included this activity by S.B.S.A. In the tour, you can find great galleries of award-winning visual artists, with their collections of their masterpieces such as abstract, landscape, and contemporary paintings, and so on.
The Open Studios Tour begins at 11 AM and ends at 5 PM the Saturday and Sunday of every year’s Labor Day Weekend. There is also a gala reception with the studio artists every Friday at 6 PM. Tickets can be bought at the studio entrance, with a $20 for adults and free for children below 12 years old. A ticket is inclusive of brochures, a map to artists’ studios, and access to the gala reception and the art exhibit of all artists.
The talented artists of S.B.S.A. include DorothChurchill-Johnson, Karen Fedderson, Francis Scorzelli, Peter Worsley, John Moses, B.J. Stapen, Rick Garcia, Peggy Ferris, Liz Brady, Anna Griffin, Thomas Mann, Barbara Baker McIntyre and many more.
The annual studio tour attracts more and more Californian art lovers every year with the great art that it boasts of. When you are in Santa Barbara for a vacation, this is something you should not miss. You will surely be satisfied if you experience the wonderful art of the talented people of Santa Barbara County.