The Education Department of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art seeks to engage, educate, and inspire through programs, classes, and experiences that foster creativity, critical thinking, and observation skills, and build both knowledge and a cultural community through interaction with original works of art. Providing one of the most comprehensive education programs in the country for a museum of its size, our Education Department engages a wide array of constituencies with varied, collaborative programs, presenting more than 40 programs that reach 40,000 children, families, teachers, and adults each year. The SBMA is the primary resource for visual arts education for Santa Barbara area public schools, inspiring more than 25,000 students and training 1,200 teachers in 75 public schools throughout the year.