Event Programming 2025
+ Special Projects
Panel Talks & Discussions
Located in the Gallery Room
Love is the Drug: A Film Screening and Book Production Discussion
Moderated by Zach Clark, National Monument Press
Heather Edney is a first wave harm reductionist and drug user organizer. Love Is The Drug is a short film by Liz Roberts, combining Heather's archive of community health education ephemera with contemporary 16mm footage filmed in Santa Cruz. Sucking Dick for Syringes is a collection of personal texts by Heather, published by National Monument Press. This program will include a screening of the film, followed by a discussion about the creation of multiple projects through cross media collaboration.
Off the Wall—On the Page—Artist Books and Publishing Across Contexts
Mathew Timmons, Insert Press
How do artist books, project-based publications, and ephemeral or experimental print editions emerge from exhibition contexts and interdisciplinary practices? Drawing on Insert Press’s publishing history and gallery space, General Projects, Mathew Timmons will discuss how publications function as extensions of exhibitions—reframing installations, archiving performances, and producing stand-alone works that circulate beyond the gallery. The presentation will highlight recent artist books, collaborative editions, and small-run experimental formats, showing how publishing can serve as both documentation and artistic medium, curatorial and creative practice. The talk will include a Q&A about the possibilities of print in contemporary art contexts.
Print Past, Present, and Future
Moderated by Allyson Healey, Sr. Permanent Collections Researcher and Manager of Archives, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
In an increasingly digitized world, print's inherently analog nature can sometimes make it seem like a retro curiosity. For many printers and print lovers, however, it's that physicality and connection to history that are what make print so engaging. This panel will discuss the ways in which contemporary print and publishing practices are enriched by their grounding in historical processes and imagery. How do artists call upon print's past to create its present and future? And which motifs and methods are ripe for revitalization?
Panelists:
Matt and/or Kiki, For the Birds Trapped in Airports
Harry Reese, Turkey Press
Madeline Helland, Aviatrix Press
Defining, Defending, and Dreaming Santa Barbara’s Visual Culture
Moderated by Alex Lukas, Associate Professor of Print & Publication, Department of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
This panel brings together a group of engaged local artists, educators, and organizers to discuss how we see the aesthetics of our city and how we are seen. By exploring and questioning dominant tropes of what artistic practices look like on the Central Coast, this roundtable will examine what is, what is missing, what has been forgotten, and what’s next in Santa Barbara’s contemporary artistic landscape. Part history lesson, part introspection, part call to action, this conversation asks what is next for visual culture in Santa Barbara?
Panelists:
Frederick Janka & Dalia Garcia, Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art
Madeleine Ignon, The Paint Rag & Beta Epochs
Michael Montenegro, @chicanoculturesb
Special Projects:
SPORE SPACE Exhibition
FKA CA53776V2.gallery
Moxie - Rolling Rosters
