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In addition to cruising the best downtown galleries, check out what is being offered each month by our 1st Thursday partners.

Partners are cultural art venues located in the same neighborhood so it’s easy to drop in and check out the fun, cultural events being offered. Each month look for new and different partners to round out the lineup.

CASA DOLORES, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE POPULAR ARTS OF MEXICOCorner of State & Anapamu Street · 805-969-0859

Come to the Casa Dolores table and contribute to the Bandera arts of Mexico. Identify the images and words in English or Spanish, or design your own national flag. Materials will be supplied. Best word-image creation wins a prize.

LAWRENCE DUFF900 State Street, Marshalls Patio · 5:00-8:00pm

Lawrence Duff is a Santa Barbara based singer, keyboardist, guitarist who performs an eclectic mix of styles from jazz standards ( G r e a t A m e r i c a n songbook, and more contemporary styles), Latin, Brazilian, pop, l i g h t ro c k , b l u e s , t r a d i t i o n a l a n d

contemporary folk, and inspired originals.

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ENGEL & VOLKERS SANTA BARBARA1323 State Street · 805-364-5141

Viva la Espana! In light of the Wave Film festival Engel & Volkers Santa Barbara welcomes you to experience the Spanish culture come to life on 1st Thursday. View some of the finest estates and

vacation homes Spain has to offer while you enjoy music, hors d’oeruves and wine.

SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC MARKET38 West Victoria · 805-770-7702Empty Bowl Gourmet N o o d l e B a r a n d Flagstone Pantry are coming together to show off the market’s b e s t g l u t e n - f r e e options. Local artist David Diamant will display his artwork and Winemaker Paul Lato will feature his wines.

ENCANTO 1114 State Street #22 · 805-722-4338TRUNK SHOW + LIVE MUSIC! ENCANTO “all things beautiful” will be having a pop up trunk show btw 2 - 6 PM, featuring M O D E R N R O M A N T I C , o u r fabulous in-house l ine of clothing, jewelry, scarves + shoes imported from Spain, Morocco + India! We will be serving up wine + live jazz music with the BLUE MOON QUARTET from 6 - 8 PM. Hands down, this is one of the best venues of the art walk. See you there!

PACIFIC WESTERN BANK30 East Figueroa Street · 805-883-5100

Paul Longanbach’s work is primarily in acrylics, pastels and collage, in an energetic palette with lots of texture. Meet the artist tonight to discover how he creates art that reflects on life lived and life yet to live.

SANTA BARBARA TRAVEL1028 State Street · 805-869-1107Join Santa Barbara Travel’s Open House presenting Paul Gauguin Cruises. Learn about small ship luxury cruising to Tahiti, the South Pacific and other warm weather destinations around the globe. Built to sail the shallow waters of Tahiti and French Polynesia, the intimate 5+star cruise ship, m/s Paul Gauguin provides an unparalleled, all-inclusive cruise experience tailored to the wonders of the islands. Like the Gaugin, a second small luxury ship, the m/v Tere Moana, specializes in warm-weather destinations, with an emphasis on delivering unique itineraries that larger ships cannot offer and explores hidden ports in Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. (Paul Gauguin Cruises Presentations: 6pm & 7pm )

CASA MAGAZINE23 East Canon Perdido Street · 805-965-6448Between Earth & Sky: Explorations of sustainability and our relationship to the environment. Poetry, live music, and art. Meet the author of The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis – Owen Liu, UC Santa Barbara PhD candidate and author John Weller, The Last Ocean: Antarctica’s Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth. Light Refreshments.

SOJOURNER134 East Canon Perdido · 805-965-7922March 21st is our 37th Anniversary! Help us celebrate into April with musicians: Brad and Anita Bayley, always fun - like

hanging out in your living room with your best pals. There will be wine tasting and see who the mystery artist will be.

SALT740 State Street · 805-963-7258Join us in the Salt Cave as we celebrate the written word with a selection of favorite poems, profound thoughts and yoga meditations shared by Salt staff and special guests. Come underground to relax and refresh with healing halotherapy and special salty snacks!

SERVICE OBJECTS27 E. Cota Street, Suite 500, 5th Floor · 805-963-1700

Service Objects is dedicated to improving the environment with real time data validation technology. Come for our Open House and enjoy wine as we continue to support local artists. This month’s exhibition

will feature moon photography by Laurie Counihan-Childs. Laurie has taken thousands of images of the moon rising over the years and she navigates much of her life around lunar cycles. As a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, she is very familiar with the elements. Needless to say, she is in love with the moon! Please join us in celebrating the moon with her.

THE NEW VIC32 West Victoria Street · 805-965-5400Featuring a sneak peek of the music from Ensemble Theatre Company’s WOYZECK. Also, get a behind the scenes look at the creative process of producing a play. Tastes provided by Ca’ Dario and Gelson’s, along with a no-host bar. T h e E n s e m b l e T h e a t r e Company at the New Vic, The Arlington Theatre, The Granada Theatre and the Lobero Theatre bring you 1st Thursday: After Hours! Every month, you’ll discover there’s always something happening in The Historic Theatre District—you just have to know where to look.

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LARK BATTEAU AND GREGORY BEEMANPaseo Nuevo Court · 5:00-8:00pm

With accordion, guitar and voice, this dramatic gypsy duo will be performing French classics f rom Jacques Brel to Edith Piaf, whisking you off to another place and time.

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1st Thursday is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and cultural art venues are open from 5-8pm offering the public free access to art in a fun and social environment. In addition, State Street comes alive with performances and interactive exhibits.

Expect something special every 1st Thursday!

We Need Your CooperationA number of venues are providing alcohol for your enjoyment this evening. In order to continue to offer this benefit we must ask that you follow a some simple rules:

You must be 21 to drink on the tour. Please be prepared to show I.D.

Please consume alcohol ONLY inside the galleries and venues.

You may NOT travel between venues with any alcohol in your glass.

We reserve the right to

refuse service to anyone.

Use this Passport as a guide to all 1st Thursday destinations. All venues are open to the public 5-8pm.

Additional cultural venues are on the back of this passport.

Performances Visual Art Venues

Partner Venues Performance Venues

DIVINE INSPIRATION GALLERY1528 State Street · 805-962-6444 Join us for a glass of wine while enjoying the whimsically playful mixed-media oil paintings of Sherry Spear, in addition to Mike Rider’s vibrant watercolors.

ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION GALLERY229 East Victoria Street · 805-965-6307 Celebrating a solo exhibition by R. Anthony Askew entitled Prints PLUS. Inspired by jazz improvisation techniques and Native American culture, Askew creates one-of-a-kind prints using rich colors, energetic lines and shapes to form lyrical non-objective compositions. A renowned printmaker and watercolorist, Askew is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art at Westmont College. (Cover art “Steady Coolness” by R. Anthony Askew).

CA’DARIO GALLERY31 East Victoria · 805-452-4581

Landscapes and Wildlife: John Baran is a Santa Barbara artist inspired by landscapes. His fine art paintings are abstracted from aerial photographs of landscapes around the world. Recently, his fondness for the wildlife that inhabits these landscapes has resulted in the creation of stunning multimedia images of wildlife ranging from African elephants to the Hawaiian

Day Octopus. His animal art will be featured in a three month exhibit this summer at the Santa Barbara Zoo. His animal prints can also be seen on the set of the TV show ‘Hawaii Five-O’.

SULLIVAN GOSS- AN AMERICAN GALLERY11 East Anapamu Street · 805-730-1460Sullivan Goss presents the latest exhibition by the beloved Meredith Brooks Abbott. The exhibition will be her first solo show since since the blockbuster At Home in Paradise in 2013. Also on view, Ben Messick, Artist; and Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary Masterworks.

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY105 E Anapamu St, 1st floorUNDER THE INFLUENCE: Responses to Place Join us at 6pm to meet and greet the Co-Curators Kam Jacoby and Karen Gearhart-Jensen and all 7 artists: Kit Boise-Cossart, Kate

Connell, Bill Dewey, Brett Leigh Dicks, Eric B. Johnson, David Passage, and Roe Anne White. The artists will be on hand to answer your questions and review their work. Each photographer explores how a sense of

place (specifically the Central Coast of California) influences and directs artistic exploration and production. The Under the Influence exhibition demonstrates how our environment, including geology, geography, weather, the economy and culture, inspires art that, even while addressing larger issues, has particular regional relevance.

ARTAMO GALLERY11 West Anapamu Street · 805-568-1400JULIA PINKHAM — FLIGHT PLAN II

M e e t A r t i s t J u l i a Pinkham: To continue the success of Julia Pinkham’s “Flight Plan” exhibition we extend the show with Part II, adding new paintings to the show and providing another chance to meet

the artist (again) in person this 1st Thursday.

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART1130 State Street · 805-963-4364Family 1st Thursday: Pen and Ink PortraitsDraw the delicate lines of Gaudenzio Ferrari’s Head of Madonna in pen and ink on tracing paper and finish by mounting on tan board. (5:30 – 7:30 pm, Free)

E x h i b i t i o n s o n Vi e w : B o t t i c e l l i , T i t i a n , a n d B e y o n d : M a s t e r p i e c e s of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums T h i s b e a u t i f u l a n d p o w e r f u l l y m o v i n g exhibition explores the

evolution of Italian painting over five centuries, from late medieval works of the 14th century to Impressionist pictures of the 19th. Drawn from the Glasgow Museums’ outstanding Italian holdings, the show features works by some of the greatest masters of these periods, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Domenichino, Francesco Guardi, Salvator Rosa, Luca Signorelli, and Titian; many of the pictures have never before been exhibited outside of Scotland. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art represents this travelling exhibition’s exclusive West Coast venue. (Open every Thursday 5–8pm for free as part of Chase Free Thursday Evenings.)

SANTA BARBARA ARTS 1114 State Street #24 · 805-884-1938Freelance illustrator and graphic artist Steve Thomas has a passion for vintage poster, propaganda and product art from the early 20th century as well as the retro-futurist art of the 1950’s, inspiring the nostalgic look of an earlier time in much of his contemporary work. For the first 14 years of his career, he worked as a commercial illustrator for newspapers, creating graphics for every section, from human interest to entertainment to sports. Over the years, Steve’s portfolio grew to include work under license for Disney, Fox, Star Trek, The Muppets and Marvel. We will be showing travel posters from the area. Wine will be poured be Grassini Family Vineyards.

WATERHOUSE GALLERY1114 State Street # 9 · 805-962-8885

The Gallery is in going on its 30th year and 23 years in La Arcada. It features artwork from some of today’s finest n a t i o n a l l y - k n ow n painters. Southwest A r t M a g a z i n e recognized Diane & Ralph Waterhouse

among “10 Prominent People’ in the Fine Art Business. Ralph Waterhouse will give a painting demonstration at 5:45pm.

GALLERY 113 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8 · 805-965-6611Ar tist of the month Stephen Robeck is a p h o t o g r a p h e r a n d calls this show WATER: Reflections, Refractions, a n d M o t i o n . H e i s f a s c i n a t e d b y t h i s interplay of water and presents water and light as the sole focus, without horizon lines or other context. The featured artists are Patrick O’Leary, Pepa Sand, Kathee Christie, Cathy Runkle, Seraphine, and Sue Slater. (Open 11 - 5 Monday - Saturday and 1 - 5 on Sunday.)

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES1103-A State Street · 805-966-1707COASTAL LIGHT Capturing the splendor of our California

Coast, realist painter Tom de Walt and artistic photographer Mehosh Dziadzo will be showcasing some of their iconic images of Hollister Ranch. Originals & limited editions are offered for sale. Wine tasting

to benefit the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara has raised over $3000 through our events.

ZFOLIO GALLERY 1013 State Street · 805-845-7375

Founded in 1857 in the Czech Republic Moser boasts a long tradition of superior artistic and technical standards in lead-free crystal. The quality of the crystal and perfection of Moser’s hand cutting, engraving and bril l iant colors are unsurpassed by any contemporary glass or crystal company in the

world. View select examples at ZFolio.

SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM136 East De La Guerra Street · 805-966-1601Pop-Up Family History & Lutah Maria Riggs: Explore the life and work of architect Lutah Maria Riggs and her contribution to what has become “Santa Barbara Style” in our final 1st Thursday of the exhibition. Connect with your roots! The Museum is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society to offer instant help with YOUR family history. As always, wine, music and a fun evening of history.

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For more information or to receive future 1st Thursday programming by email, contact: Downtown Santa Barbara27-B East de la Guerra StreetSanta Barbara, CA 93101(805) 962-2098 ext. 802 or Kate@DowntownSB.orgWWW.DOWNTOWNSB.ORG