\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\nA single exhibition presented across both galleries, Scaling the Walls examines muralism\u2019s cultural impact and evolution over the last century and highlights its continued role as a community-centered art form, organizers said.<\/p>\n
The dual-gallery format brings together artists and organizations from across Santa Barbara County, reflecting contemporary approaches to public art.<\/p>\n
Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery will feature murals produced by the Arts Alliance, a youth mentorship program of the Parks and Recreation Department.<\/p>\n
Under the artistic direction of program graduates Miguel \u201cOmepache\u201d Rodriguez and Denisse Villanueva, the artwork emphasizes collaboration and the community roots of the region\u2019s mural tradition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team created these murals using stylized art themes and symbols painted in rich, vibrant tones to depict our shared journeys and struggles, particularly those of migrant farm workers, and Indigenous peoples,\u201d said Ricardo Venegas, who has managed the program for the past 25 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe murals acknowledge the diversity and journeys of Indigenous peoples and serve as a powerful tool for cultural reclamation,\u201d Venegas said.<\/p>\n
Channing Peake Gallery will show new murals from Allan Hancock College, Carpinteria Arts Center, Cheri Owen, Coraz\u00f3n del Pueblo, Helen Yanez, John Khus, and the UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies\u2019 Social Print Lab.<\/p>\n
Commissioned by the County Arts Commission, the work was produced via distinct mediums from painting to silkscreen and collage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe resulting murals highlight the breadth of artistic approaches as well as the diversity and continued relevance of mural practices across the county,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n
The largest mural on view is 7 feet high, and 32 feet wide, created by student artists from the Social Print Lab. To develop their concept, the students traveled by bicycle and on foot through Santa Barbara and gathered imagery of architectural frameworks, stickers, tags and debris from the urban landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cScaling the Walls is important because it opens up conversations about public art in a way that reaches beyond traditional audiences,\u201d said artist Cheri Owen. \u201cIt invites people to engage with the collective voices and perspectives that mural work represents, regardless of how they experience it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scaling the Walls is curated by SBCOAC as part of an ongoing initiative to map and document the region\u2019s public art tradition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout its history, mural art has served as a tool for cultural representation, community engagement, and the celebration of shared identity,\u201d said Tom Pazderka, SBCOAC curator.<\/p>\n
\u201cScaling the Walls connects these roots to Santa Barbara County\u2019s current public art landscape, where more than 100 murals exist in Santa Barbara alone and many more across the region,\u201d Pazderka said.<\/p>\n
For more, visit Scaling the Walls Gallery Exhibition website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.noozhawk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mural panel by the Arts Alliance on display at City Hall Gallery. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture (SBCOAC) will display Scaling the Walls, a multi-venue exhibition debuting seven new murals by local schools, nonprofits and artists. There will be two free opening receptions, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May 7, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22442],"class_list":["post-2396918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scaling-the-Walls-Exhibit-Shown-at-Two-Downtown-Galleries.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396920,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396918\/revisions\/2396920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}