Experience California Nature Art Museum Galleries Online

We’ve added full digital galleries on our website for the 2020 exhibitions and virtual initiatives below. Click on the corresponding links below to learn more and scroll on to explore the galleries:

• Starry Nights: Visions of the Night Sky

• 20/20: A Retrospective

• Nature Takes the Wheel: A Public Art Project with Upcycled Hubcaps

• Critters of the Tri-County Region: 2020 Photography Competition

• Looking Beyond the Pandemic: An Online Collaboration with Allan Hancock College

• Santa Barbara County and Beyond: Recent Photographic Landscapes by George Rose

• Solvang School: Inspired in Nature

• Remembering Bud Bottoms: A Legacy of Art and Activism

Enjoy Our Social Media & video Content

We’ve joined museums across the U.S. and the world to help our followers find art escapes to pass the time.

Follow the museum @calnatureartmuseum on Instagram and @calnatureartmuseum on Facebook to see regular posts, and subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our latest video content.

And check out a behind-the-scenes look at artist Nathan Huff installing his 13-foot long painting “Phantom Limbs” for our Starry Nights: Visions of the Night Sky exhibition. Watch it online by clicking the link here.

Make Crafts the Whole Family Can Enjoy

Upcycle household items into art:

• Check out the California Nature Art Museum’s YouTube channel for fun upcycling crafts you can make from home - including an egg carton fox, toilet paper tube owl, and more!

Create your own galaxy rocks:

• Travel out of this world and paint your own galaxy rocks at home with paint, rocks, and some glitter. Click here to get started.

Get inspired by natural materials with this lesson from California Nature Art Museum artist David Paul Bayles:

• From the artist: “I've collected these stick figures for a few years now. They hang around my studio. I'm offering all 16 of them as downloadable drawing prompts. Get out your pencils or crayons!” Click here to get started.

Download The California Nature Art Museum Coloring & Puzzle Worksheets

Coloring Pages

• John Iwerks Valley Oak Coloring Page - Click to download.

• Wolf Habitat Coloring Page - Click to download.

• Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle Coloring Page - Click to download.

• California Amphibians Coloring Page - Click to download.

• California Birds Coloring Page - Click to download.

• California Mammals Coloring Page - Click to download.

• California Reptiles Coloring Page - Click to download.

• California Pacific Coast Animals Coloring Page - Click to download.

Earth Day Coloring Pages

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Coloring Page - Click to download.

• Love Your Planet Coloring Page - Click to download.

• Earth Day Fennec Fox Coloring Page - Click to download.

Word Search Puzzles

• Endangered Species Word Search - Click to download.

• Monarch Butterfly Word Search - Click to download.