Celebrating A Legacy of Giving: The Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridley-Tree Collection with free admission for all with related art activities, family gallery guides, docent tours, music, and refreshments. 

Event details:

11 – 11:45 am

Raíces y sueños: Bilingual Storytime at the Art Museum

Enjoy a morning of art and storytime focused on developing your child’s literacy skills through action rhymes and short stories in both English and Spanish. Your child will practice language, social, and motor skills, while you get the chance to connect with other caregivers. Enjoy the beauty of art and make new friends in this engaging and educational event.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

Location: Museum galleries

Music

1 – 1:45 pm

SlideWays Trombone Quartet

A sub-group of the Santa Barbara Trombone Society, the SlideWays trombone quartet performs both formal concert music as well as popular works and jazz standards. They have performed at Santa Barbara City College music events and at venues around the greater Santa Barbara area, including Mosaic Locale on State Street, Island Brewing Company in Carpinteria, and at Vista del Monte retirement community.

Performers include Eric Heidner, Paul Gaddis, Michael Dolin, and Stephen Hughes.

Location: Front Terrace

2:15 – 3 pm

Bottom Line Brass Tuba Quartet

The Bottom Line Brass all-tuba band has been playing in the greater Santa Barbara area for over 20 years. The group, which consists of euphoniums (tenor tubas), Wagner tubas (the bass of the horn family), and bass and contrabass tubas, performs a wide variety of music for different occasions. During patriotic holidays, you may hear them playing Sousa marches and flag-waving tunes, whereas during Oktoberfest, they will play polkas and waltzes, and they are the heart of Santa Barbara's annual "TubaChristmas.” Performers include Eric Heidner, Michael Dolin, Michael Evans, and Chet Stussy.

Location: Front Terrace

3 – 4 pm

Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Barbara

Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Barbara is a community-based, multi-generational ensemble of men and women who share the same passion of performing mariachi music. Its diverse membership of students, mothers, fathers and working professionals actively seeks to bridge communities through this music, performing at public schools, community fundraisers, cultural celebrations, concerts and private gatherings. Even though the group initially focused on the original form of mariachi (or an “old-time” version and the music that accompanied this bygone era), it has included the more popular or contemporary style of this musical genre to its repertoire.

Location: Front Terrace

Art Activities

Counting Sheep Interactive Installation inspired by The Shepherd (c 1890) by Henry Herbert La Thangue

Sculpt a black and white sheep to take home or to leave behind with the flock. Shepard costumes are available for a photo with sheep.

Location: Front Terrace

Double-sided Mixed Media Mural

Try your hand at Pointillist painting inspired by Paul Signac’s Herblay -The Riverbank (1889) and layering a variety of unexpected materials onto a tree-lined landscape inspired Alfred Sisley’s Springtime in Moret-sur-Loing (1890).

Location: Front Terrace

Impressionist Oil Pastel

Add color and texture to a black and white reproduction of Claude Monet’s Afternoon on the Seine (1897) with oil pastels and blend the colors with baby oil to finish.

Location: Family Resource Center

In the Galleries

Family Guides for A Legacy of Giving

Exhibition Tours

1 pm English Language Tour

2 pm Spanish Language Family Tour