Join us for an afternoon event with Stephen Huyler, an accomplished storyteller, author, photographer, and art historian who, through Beatrice Wood’s encouragement, has spent the past fifty years documenting the arts and crafts of India, championing women’s art and identity.
This event is free and open to the public, though we require that all of our presenters and audience members be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
"I'm aging now. It was not always so. At age 18 and through my thirties, I was one of the young men to whom Beatrice Wood frequently referred. My grandfather was even her favorite chocolatier! She entranced me from the minute I began to work for her in her studio on McAndrew Road. I was born and raised just two hundred yards from her home, but when she introduced me around Ojai as her gigolo (I was not!), my life began to change.
Come join me on the hill where she spent the last 23 years of her life. Together, we’ll explore the amazing character of a woman like no other. I’ll share personal anecdotes: how we traveled together in India and the extraordinary doors she opened for me there; the three-way friendship my wife Helene and I shared with her; and the humor that infected our lives together here in Ojai, in Paris, London, New York, and elsewhere. I’ll even show you glimpses of the hundreds of illustrated letters and handwritten books she sent us.
Beatrice taught me to truly see, and her wisdom and insights have deeply affected every aspect of my long career.
Come, let me pull you into story even as Beatrice, my closest friend for 28 years, always enticed me…"
