Reimagined for COVID-19 Protocols, Local Museums Excited to Welcome Public Back
As rate of coronavirus transmission slows in Santa Barbara County, residents and visitors alike can take advantage of more and more reopened museums, the zoo and activity programs
MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation has reopened in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone but has not yet increased visitor capacity to 50%. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
May 9, 2021
| 5:00 p.m.
After nearly six months of closure, a sense of normalcy flooded MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation as little kids zoomed around from exhibit to exhibit, eager to get their hands on one of the many interactive displays the Santa Barbara museum offers.
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A 40-year resident of Santa Barbara, Rabin previously presented his film “Into the Shark Zone” at SBMM; it can be seen at https://vimeo.com/285927409.
Rabin’s passion for the ocean and marine life recently prompted the formation of Reef Guardians California/Hawaii, where he plays a lead role in working with scientists and researchers to better understand the problems plaguing reef systems and looking for solutions.
He serves as an advisor to Heal the Ocean, the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Whale Sanctuary Foundation, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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After studying with other artists in the U.S. and Europe, and teaching art and watercolor painting, he received a commission as a lieutenant in the Navy, with his earliest paintings showing naval vessels in various settings and states of preparedness.
Following Pearl Harbor, his work supported the U.S. war effort, including supporting the construction of the USS Los Angeles, and reflected dramatic life or death struggles in the Pacific. Subsequently, in 1944, he was given the title of war correspondent.
After World War II, Beaumont continued to travel with and paint for the U.S. Navy on missions in the Pacific, to China and Japan. In addition to his work during the Korean War, in the production of movies, in private commissions and personal painting, Beaumont painted frozen landscapes in Alaska and Antarctica.
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Heralding the reopening of SBMM is an exhibit of 53 paintings Arthur Beaumont: Art of the Sea chronicling the accomplishments of the U.S. Navy, from the USS Constitution to atomic bomb tests and expeditions to the North and South poles.
The display will be at SBMM until the end of May, the last show on the West Coast before it leaves for the East Coast.
Beaumont used Impressionist techniques in painting the images in this exhibit and in capturing the majesty of the oceans and the vessels that sail them.
SBMM, which reopened March 18, is now open to the public 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays.
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