Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Overview:

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) is a non-profit, non-collecting alternative art space dedicated to the exhibition, education, and cultivation of the arts of our time. Celebrating its 36th anniversary in 2012, CAF is the premier venue for contemporary art between Los Angeles and San Francisco. CAF is located at the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, Upper Arts Terrace in downtown Santa Barbara, CA and is open Tuesday - Saturday: 11 am to 5 pm, Sunday: noon to 5 pm during the run of the exhibitions.

Recent Exhibitions include Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine; Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits; Home Show, Revisited; Flights from Wonder; Parallax: Peter Rostovsky and Paul Winstanley; and Eating Apples in Paradise.

New in 2012: visit our second location, CAF Satellite @ Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara at 121 State Street!

Special Events

• Forum Lounge: An evening with Catherine Galasso
• SB CAF Presents: THINGS THAT TURN YOUR BRAINS TO MUSH
• SB Contemporary Arts Forum Presents: Dasha Shishkin & Edgar Orlaineta
• smART Talks: Nathan Hayden
• Forum Lounge: robbinschilds, I came here on my own