Past Events

Enjoy great art and the opportunity to explore our galleries and individual artist's studios during this day time holiday event complete with live music, art activities, seasonal treats and best of all fine art made right here in Santa Monica at the Airport Arts Center Studios 3026! 

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If you missed the drop-in shell workshop, check out the tutorial here to make your own at home.

Join us for Laboratory for the Future exhibition closing reception + Individual Impact, Institutional Change talk.

 Artist Debra Scacco will lead a walkthrough of her exhibition through the lens of her Climate Impact Report, tracing decision-making on materials, waste, emissions and community building that shaped her two-year residency within Public Works, and the resulting exhibition.

Individual Impact, Institutional Change shares grounded strategies for how small, deliberate actions can meaningfully shift the institutions we inhabit. Scacco will be joined by long-time collaborators Deville Cohen of Artists Commit, who will introduce the group's new initiative Artists Commit X Education, supporting teaching artists in integrating climate responsibility into existing curricula; and Laura Lupton of LHL Consulting and a co-founder of Artists Commit, who has completed climate-impact strategy work with clients including the Getty, MOCA, Hauser & Wirth, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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An inspiring conversation with Villa Aurora Fellow Rebecca Racine Ramershoven, Dominique Clayton of Dominique Gallery, and Evan Nicole Brown of CARLA on how Black histories shape identity, community, and creative practices across borders.

Free and open to the public.

Saturday December 6th

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Stay tuned for our next collaboration with DCDG & Co! 

Debra Scacco hosts a conversation within her exhibit to confront the language of erasure and celebrate resilience of expression, inviting participants to join her for a meet-the-author, book signing and conversation with Arianne Edmonds and Kim Schoenstadt, exploring the importance of resisting historical erasure and creating a blueprint for action through Edmonds’ new book, We Now Belong to Ourselves: J.L. Edmonds, The Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America. The first ten attendees will receive a free copy of the book!

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If you missed it, stay tuned for another opportunity to meet the author here at Studios 3026 in 2026!

Learn important skills to help fund your artistic projects at our Grant Writing for the Arts workshop!

Grant Writing for the Arts

Come join us for a hands-on workshop on grant writing specifically tailored for artists! Learn the ins and outs of crafting successful grant proposals. Our experienced instructor will share valuable insights on the process as it relates to artists. This in-person event will be held at Studios 3026. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your grant writing skills alongside fellow artists.

This workshop is free and open to the public, made possible by the city of Santa Monica Recreation and Arts Department Cultural Affairs Division. 

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Stay tuned for our next grant writing workshop in the new year. 

Start your Sunday morning with calm and beauty. See local Santa Monica art in a new light while embracing the present moment @ Studios 3026

Take a break from busy and artfully embrace now at Studios 3026 on Sunday, Nov 2nd. Deepen your art appreciation skills during this one-of-a-kind exploration of our old airport hangar turned into working artist studios and gallery space - all while practicing the art of being present.This 90-minute workshop is led by certified mindfulness teacher Mark Landsman. Free and open to the public.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS WORKSHOP!

Art of collage making workshop taught by Studios 3026 artist Sheila Karbassian. Learn creative skills and express your artistic nature.

Join us Sunday, Oct 26th at the Santa Monica Airport Arts Center Studios 3026 where you will learn techniques of collage making and put them to practice by making your very own collage. This two hour workshop is taught by Studios 3026 artist Sheila Karbassian and is open to beginners and experts alike. Explore this expressive artistic medium and discover the joy of creating your own piece of art. Collage making supplies will be provided but feel free to bring a picture of your own if you'd like to incorporate that into your collage. 

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Join us for a powerful conversation with Diné (Navajo) artist and water protector Emma Robbins and City Yards resident artist Debra Scacco. For seven years, Emma served as Director of the Navajo Water Project at DigDeep Water. While there, she collaborated with communities to expand access to clean, running water to the one in three Navajo families without it. Leading this work through the challenges of COVID-19, she became a national voice highlighting the crisis of water inequity faced by First Peoples across the U.S. Her multimedia artworks educate viewers about issues like broken treaties and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. Robbins is also the founder of The Chapter House, a community-based organization that cultivates cultivates Indigenous joy through art, performance, celebration, and collaboration. This conversation will explore how culture, community, and joy are critical to the difficult work of systemic change and resistance.

Laboratory for the Future is a project of City Yards Artist in Residence Debra Scacco, made possible by the city of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division and Percent for Art program, and the city of Santa Monica Public Works Department. More about the project here.

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Join us for a guided walkthrough of Laboratory for the Future with Debra Scacco, who assembled this exhibit to summarize her work as the first civic-appointed resident artist at City Yards. Scacco worked with the Resource Recovery and Recycling Division and the Water Division of the Public Works Department from 2023-2025.

Laboratory for the Future showcases these two years of research and creative exploration, from visits to well sites and sanitation stations to new sculptures made from Santa Monica water well excavation clay and Pacific Ocean driftwood. Learn more about GIS-based and sculptural interpretations of the city’s water pathways, Scacco's discoveries while researching compost and waste streams, and other works that illuminate and celebrate the invisible systems (and the often unseen people) that sustain Santa Monica. Experience how art, science, and civic engagement intersect in this unique exploration of water, waste and urban ecology.

Laboratory for the Future is a project of City Yards Artist in Residence Debra Scacco, made possible by the city of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division and Percent for Art program, and the city of Santa Monica Public Works Department. More about the project here.

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Join us for a reception capping Debra Scacco's multiyear artist residency with the city of Santa Monica Public Works Department (Water and Resource Recovery & Recycling Divisions)! Scacco's project, Laboratory for the Future researched, illuminated, and celebrated the often unseen labor and natural and created systems of the city and region.

Included in the exhibition are different modes of art as data visualization; maps of water systems in Santa Monica, rubbings of infrastructure sites, a collaboration with the city's geographic mapping systems team, sculptures inspired by visits to wells and reservoirs, and works made from Pacific Ocean driftwood. The exhibition also features Scacco's "We Are Essential" photo campaign, with photography by Monica Orozco; documentation of an eponymous festival celebrating essential workers that Scacco produced in 2024; and other images from her research on invisible infrastructural systems.

Enjoy Open Studios at the Airport Arts Center, Studios 3026 during and after this event - the studios of various artists will be open 12-5pm.

Laboratory for the Future is a project of City Yards Artist in Residence Debra Scacco, made possible by the city of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division and Percent for Art program, and the city of Santa Monica Public Works Department. More about the project here.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED!

Each Wednesday in 2025 Studios 3026 artist Susan Broussard hosted an uninstructed Figurative Drawing Workshop with live model(s) in two sittings.

Short Pose 12:00 - 3:00pm

 Long Pose 4:00 - 7:00pm 

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