Buenaventura Art Association members Mary Kolada Scott and Kay Zetlmaier are exhibiting at D.A. Davidson & Co. Gallery. “Fresh Perspectives” will include many new paintings not seen before and will hang until June 1st. The Gallery is located at 60 S. California St. (3rd floor above Lure Fish House).
Exhibit sites and dates:
Oxnard Library from April 2 – 29, 2019
251 South ‘A’ St., Oxnard
Awards Ceremony Wednesday, April 17 at 5:30
E. P. Foster Library from April 3 – May 1, 2019
651 E Main St, Ventura
Awards Ceremony, Wednesday, April 24 from 5:30
The public is invited to join Focus on the Masters Archive & Library (FOTM) for celebrations of youthful expression featuring artwork created with Learning To See Outreach (LTS). Artwork from Sierra Linda Elementary and Kamala Elementary Schools is featured at Oxnard Library with an awards ceremony April 17th at 5:30. E.P. Foster Library in Ventura is hosting Elmhurst Elementary and Sheridan Way Elementary students’ artwork with a reception on Wednesday, April 24th from 5:30 – 6:30. Awards will be presented, and all are welcome to create their own beautiful leaf print with us!
FOTM documents the lives and works of extraordinary artists from our community, providing art programming for all ages. Each lesson of the innovative LTS in-school, hands-on art program is inspired by one of these artists, beginning with a PowerPoint presentation and demonstration. Students then apply themselves to their own art projects, gaining confidence and respect for themselves and others as they realize the rewards of creativity and concentrated endeavor. With an emphasis on critical thinking and innovation, art anchors them to a greater caring for their community and celebration of cultural diversity.
For more information about Learning To See, contact
[email protected] or 805.653.2501.
Opening at the Buenaventura Gallery Con-text
Artworks with words, phrases, letters or numbers in the composition
March 28 – April 21, 2019
Reception: First Friday, April 5, 6 – 9pm
Also at the Buenaventura Gallery Michelle Nosco & Bonnie Quan
Michelle and Bonnie are both past winners of BAA’s Oustanding Merit Award for excellence in artwork entered in other member exhibits. They are being rewarded with this exhibit of several of their ongoing works.
432 N. Ventura Ave., #30, In the Bell Arts Factory
After traveling to the Netherlands in 2017 and Miami in 2018, The Representational Art Conference is returning to the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, where two California Lutheran University faculty members launched it seven years ago.
TRAC2019 will run from March 31 through April 4, drawing international academics, artists, collectors, critics and curators to discuss and to demonstrate techniques in a broad category of the visual arts. Representational art portrays identifiable people, places and objects.
Presented by Cal Lutheran for the sixth time this year, the conference will focus on the relationship between imagination and 21st-century representational art. Boris Vallejo, whose illustrations of fantasy characters are loved throughout the world, and his wife and fellow fantasy artist Julie Bell will demonstrate their drawing and painting. One of the panel discussions will explore “The Art History of Fantasy and Science Fiction.”
Tim Jenison, subject of the 2014 documentary “Tim’s Vermeer,” is a keynote speaker. Intrigued by how Johannes Vermeer painted photorealistically 150 years before the birth of photography, the inventor set out to recreate one of the Dutch master’s paintings with the use of 17th-century technology. Other presenters include Roger Dean, the prolific creator of album covers for the rock band Yes; Z.S. Liang, an award-winning painter from Agoura Hills known for his portrayals of Native American culture; and Corinna Wagner, author of “Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture” and “Art & Soul.”
Academic presentations will range from “The Body of Christ, Trauma Porn and Realism in Western Painting” to “The Monuments Nobody Asked For.” TRAC2019 also will feature movie screenings and demonstrations by sculptors Brian Booth Craig and Alicia N. Ponzio and painters Virgil Elliott, Teresa Oaxaca, Scott Prior, Alexey Steele and Pamela Wilson.
Participants will take field trips to view exhibits and talk to featured artists at the Blackboard Gallery in Camarillo, Carnegie Museum in Oxnard, and Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art and outdoor Chalk Festival at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks. Blackboard Gallery’s “The Illusionists,” curated by TRAC co-founder and Cal Lutheran art professor Michael Pearce, and the Carnegie’s “The Imaginary: Art Commingling Realism and Imagination” were designed to reflect the conference’s focus on fantasy.
Pearce and former Cal Lutheran art faculty member Michael Lynn Adams launched TRAC in 2012 to address what they saw as a lack of critical appreciation of representational art and to explore the new directions it might take.
For more information or to register, visit trac2019.org.
The Ventura College Art Galleries, Gallery 2 and the New Media Gallery, were created in the 1970’s, to showcase faculty and student works, as well as artwork by prestigious artists from throughout the country.
Empoderamienta: The Art of Latina Artists until April 18th in the New Media Gallery.
This exhibition will explore the art of Latin American women artists with an emphasis on the art object as a form of cultural, artistic, and social expression. The exhibition will also explore the historic and artistic constructs of women artists in Latin America, who re-created themselves as beguiling personalities, posed uneasily between the worlds of artifice (art) and nature, or the instinctual life.
Art Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. For more information please call (805) 289-6040.
Parking on Campus requires a parking permit, which may be purchased from two automated yellow boxes in the West parking lot, and one automated yellow box in the North parking lot. The cost for parking is two dollars ($2).
Ventura Unified School District (VUSD) has announced the 2nd Annual VUSD Art Show, highlighting its incredibly talented K-12 student artists, will open on Thursday, April 18, 2019. A VUSD Artists Opening and Ventura Education Partnership (VEP) Reception will take place from 6-8 pm at the Museum of Ventura County. This event is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10.00, with all proceeds supporting VUSD’s Art programs.
“We are very proud of the long history Ventura Unified, and our community has of supporting the arts in our schools. Arts education is critical in helping all of our students be well-rounded citizens in the modern economy – one where creativity and technology interact in continually evolving ways,” stated Sabrena Rodriguez, VUSD Board President, and longtime Ventura Arts Collaborative member.
The juried show will run at the Museum from April 19-May 5, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am-5 pm. During the course of the exhibit, the museum is offering a discounted family membership to all VUSD families. May 5, 2019, will be the show’s closing day featuring “People’s Choice Awards” and entertainment. This event will be free to the public from 11 am-5 pm.
VUSD offers an incredible array of Arts education, beginning in elementary school with curriculum-aligned art instruction for all students. The caliber of these student artists is a testament to the investment our community has made into preserving and expanding Arts education.
The show is made possible through the efforts of the Ventura Arts Collaborative, a cooperative program of Ventura Unified School District, the City of Ventura, Ventura Education Partnership and the Museum of Ventura County.
“The Museum of Ventura County is proud to collaborate with and support VUSD and VEP in their ongoing efforts to elevate the arts in the lives of Ventura youth. These young artists deserve to have their work displayed for all to enjoy,” stated Denise Sindelar, Museum Programs Director.
Featured artists include:
Maria Aguilar a Senior at Buena High School where she is in her second year of art.
Marina Bretz a Senior Buena High School is a digital, watercolor, and colored pencil artist who focuses on creating playful, crisp art in a cartoonish, colorful style.
Justice McKenzie is a Sophomore Foothill Technology High School
Shea Sullivan a Junior Foothill Technology High School who since a young age, has been passionate about art and nature.
Laura Kemble a Junior Ventura High School this is her third year of art.
For more information on the 2nd Annual VUSD Student Art Show, contact Nancy Kellogg, VUSD Elementary Art Teacher at [email protected].
A Conversation with Astrid Preston at Museum of Ventura County Sunday, March 17, 2019 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Astrid Preston has been called “one of America’s most important contemporary landscape painters.” Her evolution as an artist is impressive, spanning over five decades of expression from her early days assisting her father, an architect, which influenced her linear drawings, to exploring the myriad of contemporary art movements. Her work has been exhibited in respected galleries and is held in notable museums throughout the United States and abroad. To learn more about Astrid, visit www.AstridPreston.com.
Free to FOTM members, $15 for public; $10 for seniors.
Special invitation to educators and students: The Artist Spotlight is open to students attending as a class assignment free of charge. FOTM is happy to assist with tracking attendance and sign-in sheets. Reservations required.
To RSVP visit www.FocusOnTheMasters.com or call 805.653.2501.
Special Exhibit: In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Vita Art Center, located at 28 W. Main St., Ventura, will exhibit the artwork of four women artists that will be formally documented by FOTM in 2019. The work of Astrid Preston, Hilary Brace, Linda Ekstrom and Peggy Pownall will be on display through March 22. This is the third annual all Women’s art exhibit co-curated by Vita Art Center and Focus on the Masters.
Karen Payton and Adonna Ebrahimi will display their artwork in a show titled “Flower Power” at Fox Fine Jewelry from March 14 to May 12, with an Art Reception on March 16 from 6 – 8 pm.
Karen Payton attended her first Grateful Dead concert in the late ’80s, where the tie-dyes, textiles, and flowing fabrics filled her soul as much as the music. She fell in love with doing embroidery, and applied this to her art.
Instead of brushstrokes, Karen uses needle and thread to paint her canvas with textiles.
From the moment she studied art in high school, Adonna Ebrahimi knew art was the path for her. She spent 16 years after graduation working for small, family-owned advertising and marketing agencies throughout Kentucky and New Jersey.
Primarily working in acrylic and incorporating other mixed media, Adonna creates bright, colorful compositions of flowers atop abstract backgrounds.
The Museum of Ventura County is honored to host the new exhibit Broken: A Holocaust History in Fused Glass, on display until April 27, in the Community Gallery.
“My parents’ stories were incubating in my soul”, explains artist Frances Elson. The desire to frame her parents’ experience in the Holocaust and their family’s displacement in numerous immigration camps as lessons for others mended perfectly with the artistic medium of fused glass.
The exhibit consists of six beautifully detailed and touching glass panels, as well as a book of poetry by Frances Elson’s sister, a memoir to her great-uncle, a compilation of Cantorial and Yiddish music, and much more.
In support of Broken: A Holocaust History in Fused Glass, join us at the Museum of Ventura County in the Martin V. and Martha K. Pavilion on Sunday, March 24 from
2 – 4 p.m. for Women’s Stories from the Holocaust, a panel discussion featuring Celina Biniaz, Inga Boldt, Lee Edwards, and Frances Elson. Donna Granata, Executive Director of Focus on the Masters, will moderate this moving and hopeful discussion focused on themes of family, love and survival. Admission is free for museum members, $5 for nonmembers.
“Fran Elson’s powerful tribute to her family will be shared in a compelling and affirming Gallery tour and presentation”, explains Denise Sindelar, Programs Director at the Museum.
For more information on the exhibit and museum events, visit venturamuseum.org or call (805) 653-0323.
Special Exhibit: In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Vita Art Center, located at 28 W. Main St., is exhibiting the artwork of four women artists that will be formally documented by FOTM in 2019. The work of Astrid Preston, Linda Ekstrom, Peggy Pownall and Hilary Brace is on display through March 22. This is the third annual all women’s art exhibit co-curated by Vita Art Center and Focus on the Masters.