This event has been canceled as part of SBMA’s response to COVID-19.

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompts, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.

In January, essayist and lecturer at UC Santa Barbara, Ellen O’Connell Whittet leads the first of her two winter sessions in In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II.