Greetings from Happy Valley!
I'm writing to invite you to attend the opening reception for three exhibitions on Saturday, September 1st from 2 - 5 pm. If you're unable to attend the reception or visit the Center over the next six weeks, we'll be presenting and archiving these wonderful exhibitions online. The exhibitions will be presented at the Center through October 27th.
Brilliance: Recent Work by Gerri, Russ, and Tom McMillin continues the artistic tradition of grappling with the technical and aesthetic challenges presented by light. Fusing craft traditions handed down from pre-history with contemporary technological innovations, the three artists challenge the boundaries of what is already known about their fields, primarily through an expanded usage of the element of light. Whether through optic fibers, or reflective luster surfaces, these artists bring new material techniques into the visual arts conversation.
Vessels That Dance: Recent Work by Derek Bencomo expresses his life in Hawaii, with the movement and visual rhythm he finds in the wind, water, and mountains. The work balances mass and abstract lines, capturing a sense of motion while the sculptural aspects mirror the figure of the wood. Originally from Southern California, Bencomo travelled to Hawaii as an avid surfer and was soon seduced by the traditions of creating wood bowls that he found there. Within a few years, he began producing the distinctive body of sculptural bowl forms that are today collected by museums.
To view a video featuring works in this exhibition, click here.
Our Children's Art Workshops promote a visionary approach to working with children, allowing them to find their own voice as artists. An exhibit of work created by the children over the last year will be on view during the opening reception.
Where:
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
8560 Ojai-Santa Paula Road in Upper Ojai
What:
Brilliance: Recent Work by Gerri, Russ, and Tom McMillin
Vessels That Dance: Recent Work by Derek Bencomo
When:
Exhibitions will be presented September 1 - October 27, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 1, 2012
2:00 - 5:00 pm
The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts encourages individuals to explore the artist within and, whether you are an experienced artist looking to learn a new medium or new to creating art, we invite you to attend one of our upcoming workshops.
September 28 - 30 we will be presenting our first glass workshop. A World of Glass with Richard Flores will serve as an introduction to the use of glass as an artistic medium throughout diverse cultures and the centuries with hands-on experience exploring this exciting medium.
This workshop has just been added - for more information, please contact the Center.
October 4 - 7 we will be presenting Amphorae and the Figure, a ceramic workshop with Allison Newsome. This four-day workshop will share information gleaned from a recent twelve-week workshop presented by Allison Newsome for the Harvard Ceramics Program Office for the Arts. The Harvard workshop was a multi-disciplinary collaboration with University of Rhode Island's Inner Space Center and included Amphorae research from Black Sea Byzantine shipwreck discoveries.
For more information, click here.
For those more interested in fiber and basketry, we're presenting a two-day Basketry Workshop on the same weekend. Learn to use basketry techniques to make your own traditional Adirondack backpack. This extremely functional and beautiful alternative to the modern backpack resembles what the Woodland and Appalachian Native Americans used to gather their food or carry their belongings. You will use different reeds to create this backpack - which can be used to gather materials for future basketry workshops.
For more information, click here.
This ceramic workshop with Richard Flores offers a fresh and personal exploration of traditions relating to El Dia de la Muerte and Halloween. Create and celebrate your ancestors in this unusual, fun, and educational workshop.
This workshop has just been added - for more information, please contact the Center.
Visitors to the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts & Happy Valley Cultural Center also experience a permanent installation sharing Beatrice Wood's life story with memorabilia, her collection of folk art, and wonderful examples of her ceramic art. The Center is an activity of the Happy Valley Foundation and utilizes the arts as a means of fulfilling the Foundation's mission to create and sustain an environment of compassion where all forms of life are nurtured, with the understanding that constructive change in the human condition and the planet begins with the individual.
The Center is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 - 5 pm.
Please call 805-646-3381 or email BeatriceWoodCenter@gmail.com for more information on our exhibitions, workshops, and performances.
Hope to see you soon!
Kevin Wallace
Director, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
& the Happy Valley Cultural Center
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"It is curious, but if one smiles, darkness fades."
~ Beatrice Wood
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8560 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA 93023
805.646.3381
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