{"id":672,"date":"2026-08-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=672"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:06:22","slug":"writing-in-the-galleries-sbma-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/writing-in-the-galleries-sbma-october-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in the Galleries, SBMA, October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/omarpimienta1-slide.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/omarpimienta1-slide.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/omarpimienta1-slide-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/omarpimienta1-slide-768x452.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing in the Galleries with Assistant Professor Omar Pimienta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, October 17, 11:15 am &#8211; 12:45 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free, but <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.sbma.net\/orders\/576\/tickets?cdEventIds=66ce18fd5f943316bf1eca3f&amp;date=2026-10-17T11:15:00-07:00&amp;eventId=66ce18fd5f943316bf1eca3f\">sign up on-line<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum&#8217;s galleries as an impetus to writing. Each session is led by a visiting writer\/facilitator who begins with a conversation and prompts, partially inspired by works on view. Participants are free to write on their own and then reconvene as a group to share and comment on each other&#8217;s work. Please bring a journal or notebook, laptop, or tablet on which to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The October 17 session, led by poet and Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB, Omar Pimienta, offers the opportunity to write and share in both Spanish and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Se invita a escritores de todos los niveles a participar en una exploraci\u00f3n informal de las galer\u00edas del museo, como un est\u00edmulo para la escritura. Cada sesi\u00f3n est\u00e1 dirigida por un escritor o facilitador visitante, quien comienza con una conversaci\u00f3n, as\u00ed como con sugerencias parcialmente inspiradas en las obras expuestas. Los participantes tienen la libertad de escribir individualmente y luego reunirse en grupo para compartir y comentar el trabajo de los dem\u00e1s. Se recomienda traer un cuaderno, computadora o tableta electr\u00f3nica para escribir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La sesi\u00f3n del 17 de octubre dirigida por Omar Pimienta, poeta y profesor auxiliar del Departamento de Espa\u00f1ol y Portugu\u00e9s de la Universidad de <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California en S\u00e1nta Barbara (UCSB), ofrece la oportunidad de escribir y compartir en espa\u00f1ol y en ingl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exercise in ekphrastic poetry with UCSB&#8217;s Omar Pimienta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-santa-barbara-museum-of-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}