This exhibition will feature several works made throughout the artist’s career as sort of a mid-career retorspective. Adam Parker Smith has a unique ability to address complex themes in a whimsical, light-hearted way that makes his work incredibly accessible. Adam Parker Smith is a sculpture and installation artist. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz (BA Painting, 2000), the Tyler School of Art...

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Grammy and Tony-nominated musical, Bright Star, weaves toe-tapping bluegrass and incredible true events into a rich, refreshingly genuine journey along the Blue Ridge Mountains. Starting at $25

Bringing love for live music to the central coast, the Shabang is a music festival that was born in SLO’s own backyard. What started as a few friends and a guitar has become a celebration of life, music, and breathtaking scenery, all driven by a mission of unifying and amplifying the Central Coast community through an immersive music festival experience. Once a year Shabangers gather...

The SLO Museum of Art is will be featuring the exhibit And Also... by Charlie Rugg from March 3rd until May 29th. Charlie Rugg is an abstract and portrait oil painter based in San Luis Obispo, California. Rugg’s work converges on exploring the collective nature of elements that make up human experience, and how they may be used to create a moment of perspective removed...

Marcia Harvey and Elliot Perkins: Call and Response April 7, 2023 – July 3, 2023 11am-5pm daily   In 1997, Elliott K. Perkins was working as a potter and ceramics lab technician at a small arts college in Portland, Oregon, when he met Marcia C. Harvey, who was there for the semester as an artist in residence in painting. Their first conversations were about art...

YOGA ON THE TERRACE Our resident yogi, Cheryl of Waking Fields Yoga, channels the natural healing energy of our garden into her weekly class on the terrace of SLOBG. Start your weekend on a positive foot with a yoga class for all levels that focuses on mind-body unity. Please bring a mat, towel, water, and any supports you may need. Tickets: slobg.org $12.00 / $10.00...

A slammed door. An awkward favor. And no, you don’t need to see Part 1. As a door slams in 1879 Norway, a young wife and mother leaves behind her family, freeing herself from the shackles of traditional societal constraints. Now, 15 years later, that same door opens to reveal Nora, a changed woman with an incredibly awkward favor to ask the people who she...

A slammed door. An awkward favor. And no, you don’t need to see Part 1. As a door slams in 1879 Norway, a young wife and mother leaves behind her family, freeing herself from the shackles of traditional societal constraints. Now, 15 years later, that same door opens to reveal Nora, a changed woman with an incredibly awkward favor to ask the people who she...

We’re excited to bring back to our stage the venerable Scottish group Old Blind Dogs! If the name doesn't immediately ring a bell, the Old Blind Dogs have been serving up powerful and lively renditions of Scottish traditional music for decades. Widely considered THE pre-eminent traditional Scottish band, they continue to bring fire to the stage with every ballad and reel. This tour is promoting...

Concluding the season are two masterpieces that highlight the orchestra – Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes  of Carl Maria von Weber and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4.  A newly commissioned work for two narrators, saxophone, piano, harp, percussion and strings by William Banfield will have its West Coast premiere. Based upon and inspired by, the speeches of Frederick Douglass, Testimony of Tone, Tune and Time received its...