Collin Harmon: ArtLabbé a Funk Zone Gallery with a Purpose Beyond the Walls

Collin Harmon: ArtLabbé a Funk Zone Gallery with a Purpose Beyond the Walls

Most galleries want to tell you about the work on the walls. ArtLabbé Santa Barbara will happily do that — the 1,000-square-foot space in the Funk Zonet holds pieces that run into the tens of thousands of dollars. But spend five minutes with anyone who works there and the conversation drifts somewhere else entirely: to a classroom at Dos Pueblos High School, or a Thursday afternoon session at Devereux California, or a student who had never held …