For more information or to receive future1st Thursday programming by email contact:

Downtown Organization 27-B East de la Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 962-2098 ext. 24 info@sbdo.org

www.santabarbaradowntown.com

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!

MARCH 1st Thursday PARTNERSIn 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.

ENCANTO1114 State Street #22in La Arcada Court, 805-722-4338Come join us for a look at what is new in the world of style and fashion for 2013. Enjoy some vino and live jazz with the Blue Moon Trio from 6-8pm. www.studioencanto.com

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES1103-A State Street, 805-966-1707Featuring Working Apart, works by Marc Chagall, Picasso, Dali and others who helped carve modern art into history. Originals and lithographs available for sale. Aquamarine, the birthstone for March will also be highlighted at this show. Wine tasting to benefit the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara. Live Flamenco guitar by Travis Loughridge. www.bellarosasb.com

MICHAEL STARS939 State St, Suite 4, 805-568-0660Hosting a Les Bohemiennes jewelry trunk show along with wine and entertainment by local musician Ishmael Amin. Michael Stars will donate 20% of the evening’s purchases to Community Action Fund for Women of Africa. which is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women in conflict and post-conflict areas to rebuild their lives. www.michaelstars.com I www.afwaafrica.org

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ROOMS & GARDENS924 State Street, 805-965-2424Rooms & Gardens is recognized as a tastemaker in the interior design field and is regularly featured in local and national design periodicals. Featuring a special art opening with works by Garrett Speirs.www.roomsandgardens.com

GAUTHIER JEWELERS921 State Street, 805-335-2424Gauthier is one of the most renowned and recognized high end jewelry designers in the world. His rare gemstone collection and his craftsmanship have earned him the respect of the Smithsonian. Gauthier prides himself on bringing jewelry back to an art form and offering his clients the opportunity to Wear Art. www.jewelrybygauthier.com

PLUM GOODS909 State Street, 805-845-3900Proud to present the artwork of Pedro De La Cruz. Originally from Mexico, De La Cruz has studied figure, design and color but is mostly self-taught. Wish his fresh take and postmodern compositions, he brings something new to the Santa Barbara art world. www.plumgoodsstore.com

CASA MAGAZINE23 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-6448Fea t u r i ng Ri t es o f Sp r i ng , Persephone’s return is heralded in the spring by wind, warming, germination and birth. The songs and symbols of daily life, as days lengthen, vibrate on canvas, in multi-media and in stone as artists interpret their personal experience of this annual rite of rebirth. Music by Harold Kono and light refreshments. www.casasb.com

SOJOURNER CAFE134 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-7922Be a part of the celebration of our 35th year with music from Rebecca Troon, art and wine. Featuring the work of Karin Shelton. www.sojournercafe.com

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MARCH 7, 20135-8pm

FREEART MUSIC THEATRE

Live Music After Party

1st Thursday Schedule2013

Thursday, April 4Thursday, May 2Thursday, June 6

July canceled due to holidayThursday, August 8

Thursday, September 5Thursday, October 3

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“Sun”” by Brian Andreas on view at Santa Barbara Arts

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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 few 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

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33 JEWELS AT EL PASEO814 State Street, 805-957-9100 Jamee Aubrey celebrates the dance of light and water in her one-woman show Reflections. Her large paintings look great on our walls (as they will on yours) and we are happy to showcase her latest works in oil, as she captures sublime moments of transitory beauty in the natural world. www.33jewels.com

INDUSTRY HOME740 State Street Suite #1, 805-698-5329Industry Home is Santa Barbara’s newest home design boutique. Santa Barbara designer Hayley Bridges along with the team at Brothers of Industry are long time locals who are proud to provide many locally designed and manufactured furniture and lighting pieces. The store features an array of home décor items including vintage finds, local art, reclaimed wood pieces and custom furniture. www.brothersofindustry.com

JODI HOUSE625 Chapala Street, 805-563-2882Santa Barbara Channelkeeper is proud to be hosting the tenth annual ocean-inspired Student Art Show What the Channel Means to Me. The goal of the show is to inspire local youth to create art that celebrates the natural beauty and diversity of the Santa Barbara Channel and for their art in return to inspire others in the community. The annual event is sponsored by the Montecito Rotary Club. www.JodiHouse.org I www.sbck.org

19 BLUE SALON & SPA19 West Ortega Street, 805-965-8200Trent Ichiro Watanabe’s love for Natural History and fascination of birds and fish has come full circle in alliance with his profession of graphic arts and design. His paintings render nature in a contemporary graphic style expressing strong, prominent features and gestures of his subjects. www.19blue.net

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COUCH9 West Ortega Street, 805-965-8505COUCH presents local oil painter, Tana Sommer, in a, solo exhibition called COLOR RUMBLE. Her recent large format abstract paintings represent a major departure from her previous, more realistic, style. Sommer paints one-half the year in the French country side south of Chartres. Color, light, movement, weather, energy and nature are her inspirations. Please join us for the artist reception with live music and refreshments. www.couchsantabarbara.com

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JANE DEERING GALLERY128 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-966-3334Featuring Dane Goodman and Keith Puccinello’s The Print Project. A documentary without the camera and an on-going conversation between these two artists and philosophers in 110 trace drawings.www.janedeeringgallery.com

CASA DE LA GUERRA15 E De La Guerra Street, 805-637-2230In honor of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Fray Junipero Serra, the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is hosting the traveling exhibition Junípero Serra in Mexico. Dramatic images by professional photographer Jeffrey Becom and original pen and ink drawings by local artist Richard Perry highlight spectacular but little known missions founded by Serra in the remote reaches of Mexico’s Sierra Gorda region. www.sbthp.org

JAMES MAIN FINE ART27 East De la Guerra Street, 805-962-8347Recent Additions: A collection of works by early California artist. Featuring etchings by Edward Borein and Carl Oscar Borg. Impressionist paintings by Fernand Lungren, Ray Strong, William Ritschel, Thomas McGlynn, John Wesley Cotton and others. www.jamesmainfineart.com

CITY HALL GALLERY735 Anacapa Street, 805-564-5318This exhibition celebrates a time of great personal creativity for Herbert Bayer, the most celebrated international artist ever to live in Santa Barbara, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement, and the creator of the Chromatic Gate. 6pm-remarks by Frank Hotchkiss, City Council Liaison to City Arts Advisory Committee. Also, visit Art in the Mayor’s Office. Mayor Helene Schneider with support from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative will be opening the eighth in a series of rotating exhibitions in her office of artwork by regional artists. The Mayor’s office will only be open from 5-6pm public viewing. www.sbartscollaborative.org

SANTA BARBARA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace, 805-966-5373Forum Lounge: Kat Galasso, An evening with Kat Galasso. 5pm happy hour and a 7pm performance. Choreographer and media artist Catherine Galasso presents a series of live two-person dance tableaux throughout the gallery, created in response to the current exhibitions, A Handful of Dust and Bloom Projects: Molly Smith, Root. www.sbcaf.org

SANTA BARBARA DANCE ALLIANCE Paseo Nuevo Center Court, 5-7pmSanta Barbara Dance All iance was established in 1979 as a nonprofit dance service organization that aimed to bring the dance community and its resources together. We provide Santa Barbara with Dance Showcases, Youth Dance Education Scholarships, Master Classes and free community events. www.sbdancealliance.org

GALLERY 27 AT BROOKS INSTITUTE27 East Cota Street, 805-690-4913We Came For This is a look at three different photographic projects that discuss social situations where people are brought together to share an experience. Stephen Tamiesie documents a spiritual ritual where people flock to see evidence of an apparition. Cara Robbins takes portraits of emerging indie bands. Erika P. Rodriguez looks at Isla Vista’s Annual Halloween. www.facebook.com/brooksgallery27

ART IS VITAL GALLERY15 West Gutierrez Street, 805-845-5142The incredible children’s art network (iCAN) hosts an opening reception for a new installation titled Illuminat-ing Figures. Join us for a reception and performance by students from the iCAN Music Program, celebrating this collaborative project and honor-ing our student artists and the com-munity partners that help make our programming possible. www.icansbc.org

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY105 East Anapamu Street, 805-568-3990Featuring the Design Matters: 2012 AIA Santa Barbara Design Awards at 6pm. The Santa Barbara Airport Terminal, built in 1942, has stood as an icon of the artistry, rich architectural heritage, and character of the City. A public art program highlights the work of local artists, further evoking the Santa Barbara Experience. This presentation will provide an overview of the goals and design criteria that guided the direction for re-envisioning and developing one of the most prominent public projects in Santa Barbara’s recent history. www.sbartscommission.org

ARTAMO GALLERY11 West Anapamu Street, 805-568-1400Ars Geometrica is an exhibition of abstract paintings featuring works by seven artists from northern and southern California, New Mexico, Florida and Mexico. In the selected pieces the artists integrated geometric forms, blending in lines, circles, and triangles when creating their art, some showing compositions with hard-edge color fields, others being shaped into three-dimensional constructions. Included in this group show are works by Agustin Castillo, Keith Clark, Patrick Dintino, Michael Kessler, Jack N. Mohr, Michael Moon and Jack Reilly. www.artamo.com

KAT DEVLINCorner of State and Anapamu StreetsKat Devlin has been playing righteously and regularly along the California Coast since moving from New York three years ago, rocking clubs from the House of Blues in West Hollywood to Santa Barbara’s SOhO. Kat has created a country-hipster sound that has attracted the attention of listeners near and far. www.katdevlin.com

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART1130 State Street, 805-963-4364Featuring a Lucy Harvey Glass Trunk Show. Santa Barbara artist Lucy Harvey entwines jewelry, pottery shards and glass with freshly cut and polished gems to create these sculptures that fuel the imagination and serve as metaphors for both the unconscious mind and collective memory. Location: Museum Store

Also on view: Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection, This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs and California Dreaming: Plein-Air Painting from San Francisco to San Diego. Bring the whole family to enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center, located across from the Museum Café on the Lower Level. Newsprint Paintings: Draw figures and architectural elements from Ramos Martinez’s scenes of everyday life in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, on view in the Myth and Materiality exhibition. Time: 5:30–7:30pm. www.sbma.net

SANTA BARBARA ARTS1114 State Street Suite #24, 805-884-1938Brian Andreas is an internationally known local artists who call Santa Barbara home. He is best known for his StoryPeople stories, lyrical short stories that speak about the quiet joys of being alive. Andreas will be on hand to sign his latest book Theories of Everything. Serving Wine from Grassini Family Vineyards in our new location! www.sbarts.net

GALLERY 1131114 State Street #8, in La Arcada Court 805-965-6611Featuring Michael Fisher’s A Head On Collision of Abstraction and Reality which enigmas of color, texture, composition and the artist’s signature Red Wing boots.. the beauty that lies beneath our feet. Featured artists include Stephen Robeck, Danuta Bennett, Celia Foss and Dorene White. www.sbartassoc.org

PANZUMO900 State Street, Marshall’s PatioPanzumo is a full spectrum entertainment company that includes West African Drum & Dance, Bollywood, Djun Djun Mamas, Kododun (Taiko) drumming and more. Led by Budhi Harlow & Lisa Beck, this exhilarating show is not to be missed. www.panzumo.com

DIVINE INSPIRATION GALLERY OF FINE ART1528 State Street, 805-962-6444Featuring an artist reception for a group show Mixed Bouquet highlighting fresh and colorful works by pastelist Carrie Givens, oil painter Laurel Mines and watercolorists Mike Rider. Artists present, live entertainment and wine served. www.divineinspiration.us

LUMNOS GALLERY AT SANTA BARBARA FRAME SHOP1324 State Street, Suite J, 805-729-2184Presenting photography by Craig Joujon-Roche whose use of texture, form and line combine with his highly developed and well-executed vision to produce striking and evocative images. Featured are pieces from Craig’s Nature and Remembering portfolios. The work ranges from more abstract and intimate views of nature to those that move beyond traditional landscapes, exploring our interaction with and sense of belonging to the natural world. www.lumnos.com

SULLIVAN GOSS – AN AMERICAN GALLERY7 & 11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of the most historically significant exhibition in the 28 year history of the gallery. Along El Camino Real will exhibit for the first time ever all 21 unique watercolor paintings of the California missions, completed in 1897 by Edwin Dekin. This collection of paintings is a national treasure that has never been seen by the public. Also on view: An Even Dozen, Robin Gowen: Night Must Wait and A Winter Salon. www.sullivangoss.com

Use this Passport as a guide to all 1st Thursday destinations. All venues are open to the public 5-8pm.Additional cultural venues on the back of this passport.

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