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Considering Becoming An SBVAA Member?

Time to Renew Your SBVAA Membership?

About SBVAA:

Benefits Of Membership:

SBVAA Listings Include:

Why Use Our Listing:

How To Join Or Renew:

About SBVAA:

The Santa Barbara Visual Arts Alliance (SBVA) is an organization of organizations.

Our mission is to make Santa Barbara County a destination community for the Visual Arts.

Membership is for organizations and individuals that are interested in furthering visual arts in Santa Barbara County.


Benefits Of Membership:

• A low cost way to have a well publicized website presence with a hyper-link to your own website.

• SBVAA website listings are an easy way to direct the art buying public to your front door.
After buying a Membership, all listings are free.
As a Member, and at your option, your listings may include your addresses, phone, fax, email, and driving directions.
Non-members have a generic listing with just an address and phone number.

• An image of your choosing attracts special attention to each of your web listings.
Non-members do not have images.

• The ability to expand all your listings with additional images and almost unlimited detail, through a hyper-linked follow-on web page.
Non-members do not have follow-on pages.

• As a Member, for an additional charge, a your events may be co-listed in selected SBVAA print advertisements and press releases.


SBVAA Listings Include:

• Our popular Calendar of visual art events.

• Where visual art may be seen - Galleries, Museums, And other Exhibits.

• Visual Art Related Organizations.

• Individual Artists, their websites, and their studios.

• Artist Opportunities - Workshops, Demonstrations, Ingatherings, Calls for Artists.

• A growing list of Public Art in Santa Barbara County to attract visitors.


Why You Should Use Our Free Event Listings:

• Only SBVAA offers a unique "Print-It-Out" tool for website visitors. (New for 2008.)
Visitors planning a scheduled visit may prepare a printable list of art events available in their time window.

• About 100 art buying visitors a day view the SBVAA website Calendar of event listings.

• SBVAA buys a wide range of carefully selected national and local media advertisements to promote our website to the art buying public.

• You may place a Calendar event listing up to a year ahead to catch potential visitors planning a trip. As more event details emerge, you may update your listing as often as you wish.


How To Join or Renew Your Membership:

• Private Galleries - Click Here.

• Art Museums, Art Related Institutions and Organizations - Click Here.

• Educational and On-Campus Galleries - Click Here.

• Art Associations, Clubs, and Organizations; Non-Profit Art Venues; Offices and Retail Establishments Exhibiting Art - Click Here.

• Individual Artists - Click Here.