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Museum of Ventura County update for June 19 — Spend the Summer at Your Museum!

by Community Contributor • June 19, 2019 • Comments Off

MUNCH returns to the Museum of Ventura County this Thursday, June 20, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.! The Ventura Artist Union Jam Band will be performing and boxed lunches will be available for purchase from Desserts to Die For.

Pack a lunch and join us in the Museum’s Courtyard or Plaza every 3rd Thursday of the month for live music. Museum admission is free during this time, so you can also explore

the galleries.

Are you participating in the Ventura County Library’s Summer Reading Program? Come into the Museum of Ventura County or the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula and receive 25% off all children’s books through July 31, 2019!

Don’t forget to register for the Library’s Summer Reading Program!

Junior Curator Program at the Ag Museum

The Junior Curator program meets at the Agriculture Museum every Thursday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. June 27, 2019 through August 8, 2019. Children ages 6-12 are welcome.

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Junior Curator Program at the MVC

The Junior Curator program meets at the Museum of Ventura County every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. beginning June 25, 2019 through August 6, 2019. Children ages 6-12 are welcome.

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The Natural Dye Test Kitchen: 6-Week Workshop

Join artist Michelle Glass in a series of natural dye workshops and learn the step by step process to create beautiful colors with natural dyes. Taking place every Tuesday at 3:30-5 p.m. from July 2, 2019 to August 6, 2019.

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Munch feat. The Ventura Artist Union Jam Band

Thu., June 20 @ 11:30 a.m. Munch returns to the Museum! The Ventura Artist Union Jam Band will be performing, and boxed lunches will be available for purchase from Desserts to Die For.

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Gallery Talk with Artist Carlos Grasso

Fri., June 21 @ 11 a.m. In support of the current exhibit, Actual Reality, artist Carlos Grasso joins us for a gallery talk. Experience the exhibit with the artist himself and receive an in-depth look and understanding of the artwork on display.

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Member Appreciation Day at The Ag

Sat., June 22 @ 9 a.m. Join us at the Agriculture Museum in historic downtown Santa Paula for Member Appreciation Day! Bring the entire family or a friend for a morning of fun, education and exploration.

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Summer Concert Series: Shaky Feelin’ at the Ag

Fri., July 5 @ 7 p.m. Shaky Feelin’ is a rising powerhouse quintet based in Ventura. They are all about Soul Shakin’ and Heart Breakin’. Admission is $5 for Museum members, $10 for nonmembers.

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Free First Sunday: Mixed Media/Collage Art at the Ag!

Sun., July 7 @ 12 p.m. Enjoy our air-conditioned museum building and participate in an informal art workshop on mixed media and collage techniques that involve the selective application of different materials to an existing image.

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Free Figure Drawing at the Museum

Tue., July 9 @ 6 p.m. Join the Museum’s Resident Artist Ryan Carr for Free Figure Drawing! All skill levels are welcome. Some instruction provided.

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Actual Reality

Actual Reality, a new exhibit created by local artists Carlos Grasso and Peter Fox, examines the present day disconnect between virtual and actual reality.

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In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte

This new exhibit at the Agriculture Museum features the photojournalist David Bacon’s evocative, powerful photographs alongside moving oral narratives from migrant farm workers.

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Music by the Masters

This exhibit will showcase the breadth and diversity of the Ojai and Ventura Music Festivals, both of which are celebrating their 73 rd and 25 th years, respectively.

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Farming Youth at the Ag

Farming Youth is a new pop-up exhibit at the Agriculture Museum featuring the artwork of Lino Martinez that focuses on the migratory realities of the farm workers whose labor sustains the United States’ agricultural economy.

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The Dragon Awakes: Qing Dynasty

This collection of figures represents key personalities from Chinese history. From the Manchus who crossed the Great Wall and formed the Qing Dynasty, to the Nationalists and Communists who came after them and founded modern China.

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Women Beyond Borders

This extraordinary exhibition displays boxes created by women throughout the world from Women Beyond Borders touring collection, along with historical information and video history of the Women Without Borders journey.

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Throwing Shade at the Ag

Throwing Shade provides a simple, focused examination of the coast live oak tree and its woodland community of plants and animals. Discover how the oak survives wildfire, drought (hot and dry periods), and how it reproduces.

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Patterns on the Land at City Hall

This exhibit, Patterns on the Land, showcases faithful reproductions of rare maps from the Museum’s Research Library and Archives collection, and is on display in the City of Ventura’s Planning office, Room 117 in Ventura’s City Hall.

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David Eddington closes June 21, 2019 at the Vita Art Center, so make plans to visit this week! David Eddington’s more recent paintings seem to liberate former realist imagery from its bearings and subject it to a kind of dream limbo. This liberation finds the figures in assorted landscapes of vibrant color; pastoral yet rarified, like in the grounds of an old stately home, complete with lakes and sometimes birds, quizzically observing the most recent newcomers.

This liberation from realism comes at a cost. Much like Adam and Eve, leaving the Garden of Eden, Eddington’s subjects become part of the vicissitudes of life. Unprotected from the static place they once inhabited, yet still maintaining the innocence of their former life, we witness their interactions as they are touched by both life’s wonder and vitality and its inevitable arc into eventual decay.

The atmosphere within each painting is one of colorful excitement, where we can experience something primordial within the walled garden of the aforementioned stately home. Veiled erotic vitality and new growth are always nearby.