Barbara Buck adjusts the beard on the "Gentleman Santa" on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in her studio in Freeport. FREEPORT — Barbara Buck admits she was a skinny kid growing up, so playing the role of ...

It’s a way to give new life to old books,” said Ellen Skagerberg, a bookseller-turned-artist who dismantles forgotten tomes ...

In the early months of the pandemic, those dark, disturbing days of 2020 when no one knew what sort of future would come, humans everywhere searched for signs of brightness and hope. There was an ...

The Grace Fisher Foundation and the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative are the recipients of the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture’s 2025 Santa Barbara Business in Art Award. The ...

Stephen Clugston, Santa Ysabel Art Gallery’s new director, wants to apply his extensive background in working at museums and galleries into making his new gallery a cultural center. One of his goals ...

“This is not a gouté, or a buffet — this is a banquet of every major Impressionist artist,” says Paul Hayes Tucker, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has spent ...

Art is coming to Santa Barbara’s downtown. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will host an exhibit titled “The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse” from Oct. 5 through Jan. 25. The museum, in ...

SANTA FE, NM - AUGUST 17, 2013: Noted Cochiti Pueblo (New Mexico) artist Diego Romero discusses his ceramic bowls for sale at the annual Santa Fe Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Romero's ...

SANTA CRUZ — Hundreds of sea glass enthusiasts and ocean-inspired art lovers filled the Santa Cruz Boardwalk’s Cocoanut Grove Saturday to comb through and take home works of nearly 60 artisans at the ...

Art has increasingly gained a foothold in the virtual space, but there will always be some undeniable appeal to encounters with art in the physical realm. These two worlds are set to meet at a new ...