Brooks Extension’s mission is to encourage outreach and community collaboration by facilitating the exchange of ideas within the visual, new media, and communication arts. Brooks Extension invites the community to join us for events and programs catering to an audience that spans a wide spectrum, ranging from the general public and enthusiasts, to professionals and educators.
Exhibits
Visions Gallery - Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Visions Gallery – Form / Function: Typography: Aesthetics and Communication

Form / Function Typography: Aesthetics and Communication Clay Nowak, Less Work, More Play. The advent of the computer and digital typography has given us a myriad of choices of typefaces at our fingertips. How much meaning is conveyed in a communication through the choice of typeface versus the specific words themselves? What is behind the choice...
Gallery 27:  May First Thursday Exhibit Opening - The Path

Gallery 27: May First Thursday Exhibit Opening – The Path

The Path Photography by Brooks Institute Students + Alumni   Opening Reception: May 3, 2012, 5-8 PM Gallery 27 27 E Cota St. Santa Barbara, CA http://www.facebook.com/events/346326422090926/   Exhibition: May 3 – June 15, 2012   Photography holds this beautiful ability to ferry its viewer from their current time and place to one of imagination or...
Exhibit, Fundraiser, & Lecture: Nick Brandt

Exhibit, Fundraiser, & Lecture: Nick Brandt

  Gallery 27 presents ‘On This Earth, A Shadow Falls’ photographs by Nick Brandt. In 2001, Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project, a trilogy of books tomemorialize the vanishing grandeur of the natural world of East Africa. The 21 large-scale photographs in the exhibition are taken from this photographic project. This exhibition will...

Call for Entries – Present Perspective: Brooks Institute’s Faculty & Staff Exhibition

Present Perspective Brooks Institute’s Faculty & Staff Exhibition 2012 Gallery 27   We are excited to announce Present Perspective: Brooks Institute’s Faculty & Staff Exhibition 2012. The running dates for this show will be June 29 – August 27, 2012. This is a call for entries to Brooks Institute’s Faculty and Staff exhibition of 2012 about the...
Call for Entries - The Path: Brooks Student + Alumni Exhibition

Call for Entries – The Path: Brooks Student + Alumni Exhibition

  EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION: Brooks Institute is taking submissions for a photographic exhibition this spring entitled ‘The Path.’ Path imagery has played an integral role in photographic history both for its aesthetic and metaphoric value. Gerry Badger stated that photography has the ability to transport us through time and space, and in particular ‘path’ imagery holds...
The Visions Gallery Presents Nocturnus, a photo series by Shaun Walton

The Visions Gallery Presents Nocturnus, a photo series by Shaun Walton

Visions Gallery is proud to present Nocturnus, a photo series by Shaun Walton.  This exhibition visually explores the nocturnal lives of Africa’s elite predators, lion and leopard.  These animals have been revered by African cultures for thousands of years with their nocturnal activities shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Walton ventures into the dark of night...
Observations - Photographs by Jesse Alexander and Patricia Houghton Clarke

Observations – Photographs by Jesse Alexander and Patricia Houghton Clarke

The creative works of Santa Barbara artists Jesse Alexander and Patricia Houghton Clarke are on the walls of Gallery 27 this February. This collaborative effort between two photographic talents is a discussion of place, people and ideas. Jesse Alexander and Patricia Houghton Clarke are creative documentarians, both exposing the people and places of cultures we...