An Educating Conversation: Mapping Early California

John Johnson, PhD, Curator Emeritus, SBMNH & Jennifer Colby, PhD, CSUMB

Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with different monthly experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.


Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

Free parking on site | Look for the SBMAL sign on the front portico, to the left.

Cost: $50 per event | RSVP Required | Limited to 25 attendees | Light Refreshments


This program examines the history and traditions of mapping in early Spanish and Mexican colonial California, including before, during, and after the Mission Period. Dr. Johnson will cover the earliest depictions of the Santa Barbara region and what information can be derived about Chumash settlement patterns from archival records. Dr. Colby will examine the artistic traditions behind the diseños, maps that were filed with petitions for land grants in the Mexican Period.

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www.sbmal.org/events for details of the series.

To get tickets directly: https://www.sbmal.org/events-1/an-educating-conversation-mapping-early-california

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