You could win “Sacred Spring, Delphi,” a painting by Gerd Koch.

Opportunities abound in October to put some local color in your home or office: Buenaventura Art Association is holding a monthlong Collectors’ Auction and Exhibit of works by notable area artists in its Ventura Avenue gallery.

Most pieces on display Oct. 1-30 will be offered in a silent auction, including large paintings by Phyllis Doyon and the late Mary Michel.

Attendees at preview receptions 6-8 p.m. Sept. 29 and 2-4 p.m. Sept. 30 (or both) will see all items in advance, before the general public and before the auction launches online.

Tickets, $10 per person, include automatic entry into raffle drawings for prints, restaurant certificates and other prizes to be held every half hour during the previews, plus free BAA Champagne flutes and music. The tickets are available online at buenaventuraartassociation.org and will be sold at the door.

Opening public reception for the show will be 5-8 p.m. Oct. 1, in conjunction with Ventura’s First Friday gallery crawl.

Another highlight of the October fundraiser will be selecting the winner of “Sacred

Spring, Delphi,” a painting by Gerd Koch. Raffle tickets are $50 each or

three for $100.

Hours at Buenaventura Art Association, in Studio 99 at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura, are noon-4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

The Museum of Ventura County is pleased to announce and unveil its newest acquisition, John Nava’s Big Platter. A gift of Laura and William Peck, the 27-foot-long tapestry spans the north wall inside the Martha K. and Martin V. Pavilion, where numerous events, pop-up exhibits, and activities occur year-round. Big Platter will remain in the Pavilion as a permanent display.

John Nava, who lives in Ojai, studied art at UC Santa Barbara under Howard Warshaw and completed his graduate work in Florence, Italy. His work is found in numerous private, corporate, and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including his creation of the Communion of the Saints tapestries for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.

“There is a long tradition in art of the Arcadian image — Arcadia as the setting of a harmonious image of people within nature,” explains local artist, John Nava. We find ourselves immersed in this beautiful nexus of shore, sea and sky completing the composition. I wanted to make Ventura’s own Arcadian image.”

The Museum has two locations – the main museum is located at 100 East Main Street, Ventura. The Agriculture Museum is located at 926 Railroad Avenue, Santa Paula. Both museums are open Thursdays through Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – venturamuseum.org.

Sunday, September 12, the Olivas Adobe is open to the public 11am-3 pm for a Day on the Rancho. In the small adobe artist Laura J. Jespersen has created a series of paintings “the Romance of the Adobe” featuring scenes and stories inspired by the Olivas family and those who lived on the rancho. All paintings are for sale.

www.cityofventura.ca.gov/OlivasAdobe

Ascension, oil and acrylic with iron oxides on canvas, Jill Sattler

Members of the Buenaventura Abstract Artist Collective, an offshoot of the Buenaventura Art Association, will exhibit their recent work starting Friday in Studio 99, BAA’s new gallery space at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura.

The artworks by 17 painters from throughout the region, from Lompoc to Santa Monica, will be on display through Sept. 25. An opening reception will be 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3 in conjunction with Ventura’s monthly First Friday gallery crawl.

Studio 99’s operating hours during the COVID-19 pandemic are limited to noon-4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and other times by prearranged appointments. Masks are optional and encouraged for all vaccinated visitors and required of unvaccinated adults.

The Abstract Artists Collective was founded in January 2020 and has been meeting on Zoom since July 2020. Every month, 15-20 artists gather online to present and discuss their paintings, which do not aim to represent external reality but to achieve its effects using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

Meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month. For information on joining this group, please contact Joe Osborne at [email protected].

Buenaventura Art Association, founded in 1954, also has an outlet at Harbor Village Gallery & Gifts at Ventura Harbor, and artworks on display at SpiceTopia and Very Ventura, downtown shops on Main Street. BAA directors, staff and volunteers are seeking additional business partnerships to expand exhibit space and artist exposure.

For more information about BAA and its programs, call the gallery at 805-648-1235 or visit buenaventuraartassociation.org.

Pacific Point Fine Arts will be showing artwork of painter and sculptor
Tim Hill. Last weekend of August. Come and enjoy the one of a kind
quirky vision of Cars,Trucks and Flying Pigs. Weekend of August 28 and 29 with live music.

3172 Bunsen Ave Ste J, Ventura

Art City Studios in Ventura means different things to different people.
For some it is a font of imagination and freedom of artistic expression.
For others it is a haven and a refuge from the troubles in the world.
For others, the hundreds of international who have worked here in the 36 years
since it moved to Ventura from Santa Barbara,
Art City is a source of deep personal expression and their foremost way of staying connected with their patrons and the community as a whole.

Art City has been through a lot in its over three-decades of existence in Ventura.
It has weathered many a storm and always come out swinging for the Arts in our community. There simply is no other place like Art City in our increasingly mechanized and inhibited society. All the more essential that this proud resource not be allowed to be destroyed or altered beyond all recognition.

There is nothing that says Art City Studios should not have to adapt and change with the times. But any wholesale assault on its independence, its right to exist, would bring shame on those whose misguided efforts in this regard fail to take into account the unique place Art City Studios has in Ventura.

Our major collaborators over the years, including the City of Ventura, the Museum of Ventura County, The Ventura Botanical Gardens, Cal State Channel Islands, Bell Arts Factory, and many more, all believe that there must be a way forward for Art City that assures it of remaining what it has always been, a place like no other here on earth.

197 Dubbers Street
Ventura, CA. 93002
www.artcitystudios.com / [email protected] / 805 653-6380