Programs & events
Honoring the Community Environmental Council and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
SUNDAY, May 19, 2024 | 11 AM - 1:30 PM
Grand Ballroom, Marriott, Buellton
Tickets are on sale now! Join us for our biggest bash of the year - the annual Wilderness Spirit Award Brunch!
Join us for a delicious brunch , mimosa and bloody marys, live and silent auction, artist demonstrations and art auctions, wine pull, & more!
SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH, 2024 | 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
At the California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum)
Celebrate World Oceans Day with a free-with-admission Kid Craft mini-workshop. Young guests will get excited about one of our ocean’s most fearsome and fantastic marine creatures during a short group book reading, use watercolors to paint our iconic state fish, and make a pledge to be a friend to the sea.
SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH, 2024 | 3:00 PM–5:00 PM
At the California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum)
Join the California Nature Art Museum & Community Clayworks for an art workshop at the Museum, creating bee baths for the home garden. Participants will learn to sculpt an open, flat flower with elevated petals throughout to create safe landing spots for the bees, as well as paint their pieces with colorful underglazes. After firing and clear glazing, completed pieces will be available for pick up in-person at the Museum or can be shipped by request (for an additional fee).
SUN. JUNE 30TH, 2024 / 3:00 PM– 4:30 PM
At the California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum), Second Floor Valley Oak Gallery
Film-making, advocacy, education and outreach, art and photography, habitat restoration, volunteer work, and efforts in citizen-science collide as Western Monarch experts Ole Schell, Mia Monroe, Audrey Fusco, and Elizabeth Weber talk monarch butterflies during this exciting panel on one of California’s most famous pollinators. While each is a monarch expert in their own right the four speakers all approach their passion for monarch butterflies in different ways.
Join us for an inspirational and educational panel on monarch butterflies in the Second Floor Valley Oak Gallery. Tickets are $5 for members, and $10 for non-members.
SUNDAY, JULY 21ST, 2024 | 3:00 PM–5:00 PM
At the California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum)
Join the California Nature Art Museum & Community Clayworks for an art workshop at the Museum, creating bee baths for the home garden. Participants will learn to sculpt an open, flat flower with elevated petals throughout to create safe landing spots for the bees, as well as paint their pieces with colorful underglazes. After firing and clear glazing, completed pieces will be available for pick up in-person at the Museum or can be shipped by request (for an additional fee).
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 2024 | 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
At the California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum)
Join the California Nature Art Museum for a free-admission, end-of-summer Family Day on Saturday, August 10th 2024, from 10AM – 3PM. This annual event invites visitors to bring the whole family and enjoy free admission to the Museum, and participate in a variety of art-and-nature inspired activities.
Create your own bee-themed hanging wall art, make friends with a lizard, snake, or tortoise from Mahni’s Reptiles, enjoy a free hand or cheek painting, and wonder at live honeybees in an observation hive from Santa Barbara Hives!
FRI. SEPTEMBER 27TH - SUN. SEPTEMBER 29TH
At the Nature Conservancy Field Station on Santa Cruz Island, with the California Nature Art Museum
Join the California Nature Art Museum for a two-night trip to Santa Cruz Island on Friday, September 27th 2024 - Sunday, September 29th 2024. Guests will be staying in the dorms at the Nature Conservancy (TNC) Field Station, which cannot typically be accessed by the general public.
Throughout this trip, guests may enjoy fully-included, structured activities such as hiking, species identification, nature journaling, swimming, and travel through the use of the on-island vehicles.