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Brian Calvin pieces displayed in the Atkinson Gallery on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Humanities Building at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif.

New year, new exhibit: Atkinson Gallery celebrates human figures

February 7, 2020

Cole M. James gives insight about the art featured in the lecture given on Friday morning, Nov. 15, 2019, in the Humanities Building at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. James’ exhibit “Residence 3 Movements” will be open to the public starting Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Ojai, Calif.

Contemporary artist speaks about self-identity and new exhibition

November 17, 2019

Gallery attendees try out the interactive bike sculpture created by Artist and UCSB professor Jane Mulfinger featured in the solo exhibition West is South on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, at the Atkinson Gallery at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. The bikes ring bells when peddled and were built in the UCSB woodshop lab by Mulfinger using exercise bikes from the 1960’s.

New Atkinson Gallery exhibition questions what it means to belong

October 5, 2019

Karl Blasius observes a sculpture during the Annual Student Exhibition on Friday, April 12, 2019, in the Atkinson Gallery at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. Blasius, a phycology major at SBCC, used to be an art major and once had his work featured in the Atkinson Gallery 12 years back.

Spring semester brings beauty, life to SBCC art department

May 3, 2019

Courtesy of Santa Barbara artist Wallace Piatt

New pop art exhibit opens in SBCC’s Communications Lab

April 19, 2019

Romit Mukherjee looks at the Non-Objective Art exhibit on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in the John Dunn dining hall at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Atkinson Gallery intern curates unique, abstract student work

April 5, 2019

Matt Kay and his son Wren Kay look at artwork displayed during the Oak Group’s exhibition ‘In Wildness’ on Jan. 25, 2018, at City College’s Atkinson Gallery in Santa Barbara, Calif. The gallery featured landscape paintings by members of the Oak Group.

“The Oak Group: In Wildness” exhibit celebrates forest’s beauty

February 1, 2019

This Book was one of the several books featured in the Mourning/Warning exhibition by printmaker and book artist Tia Blassingame at the Atkinson Gallery at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

“Mourning/Warning” art exhibit explores being black in America

September 28, 2018

(From left) Laura Krifka, and Heidi Kumao at the opening of

Artists display stop-motion films at SBCC’s Atkinson Art Gallery

January 29, 2018

SBCC poem reading reflects on the environment and art exhibit

GERARDO ZAVALA, Channels Staff

November 8, 2016

The Atkinson Gallery was filled with discussions about the environment, a key issue for this year’s presidential election. The 7 p.m. event featured authors Emma Trelles, David Starkey and Chella Courington. All of the authors,...

Rod Val Moore, author and member of What Books Press, reads an excerpt from his novel “Brittle Star” at a collective reading performance on Thursday, Oct. 20, on the balcony of the Atkinson Gallery. City College's creative writing department and Gunpowder Press sponsored the reading.

LA writing collective visit SBCC to share unconventional work

October 21, 2016