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Celebrate Spring with the Museum of Ventura County

by Community Contributor • March 8, 2023 • Comments Off

Summer Vegetable Gardening Workshop

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

10AM—11AM

@ Agriculture Museum

Free Admission

Certified Master Gardener Lee Rosenboom will share how to prepare for your summer vegetable garden. Learn what to plant and when, how to prepare your soil, and useful tips about fertilizing, irrigating, and vegetable garden pests. Presented by the UC Master Gardeners.

Nowruz:

Celebrate the Spring Equinox

Saturday, March 18, 2023

12PM—3PM

@ Museum of Ventura County

Free Admission

Nowruz, which translates to “new day” in Farsi and Kurdish, is celebrated on the Spring equinox by millions of people across the globe as a season of rebirth and good luck. Visitors will experience cultural displays, food, dancing, and crafts. Our Nowruz celebration is for the whole family, so bring everyone!

MVC’s Nowruz celebration is made possible by a generous grant from the Charles D. and Mary A. Bauer

Foundation

Ivor Davis: Up Close

& Personal with

Malcolm McDowell

Saturday, March 25, 2023

6:30PM—8PM

@ Museum of Ventura County

MVC Member In-Person: Free

MVC Member Zoom: Free

Nonmember In-Person: $10

Nonmember Zoom: $5

Join us at the Museum of Ventura County for the next installment of Ivor Davis: Up Close & Personal. Returning, this time in-person, is legendary actor and raconteur extraordinaire, Malcom McDowell.

McDowell’s impressive career puts him in the pantheon of the all-time great British-born actors from Laurence Olivier to Michael Caine to Anthony Hopkins. McDowell’s dazzling career has spanned more than 50 years, where he has starred in scores of movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s iconic “Clockwork Orange,” Lindsay Anderson’s “O Lucky Man!,” “Caligula,” “Bombshell,” “Time After Time,” and “The Artist.” His vast television credits include “Entourage,” the animated series “South Park” and “Mozart in the Jungle.” Malcolm McDowell is the winner of Ojai Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Grace Morton – Ventura

(one of five 2021/2022 Scholarship winners)

Bonita C. McFarland Visual Arts Scholarship

Museum of Ventura County is now accepting applications for its Bonita C. McFarland Visual Arts Scholarship. The scholarship fund has a total of $10,000 to be awarded to eligible applicants who are high school seniors enrolling in college courses in Fall semester of 2023 or any continuing visual arts college student who is a Ventura County resident.

Awards will be based on artistic merit and commitment as demonstrated by the application, essay, letter of recommendation, and examples of work.

Applicants will be selected by a committee consisting of members of the Museum’s Fine Arts Committee and Museum staff. Learn more here.

Application deadline: May 7, 2023

Review of applications: May 2023

Scholarships announced: Late May 2023

Awards Reception: June 7, 2023

Explore more Upcoming Events here!

The Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula are open Thursday—Sunday from 11am to 5pm. Admission to both Museums is now FREE.

Finding the Light

Works from MVC’s Permanent Collection

Beyond influencing shape and color, artists use light to impart meaning to viewers. These works from MVC’s collection showcase how light can elicit emotion, tell stories, and convey meaning.

Finding the Light is supported through the gifts of:

Bonita McFarland Fund

Suzanne Chadwick

Behind the Curtain:

An Insider’s Look at

The George Stuart Historical Figures®

People argue about whether the Figures are works of art, historical objects, or maybe something else entirely. Mr. Stuart himself objects to both the titles of Artist and Historian. Investigate each Figure closely so that you can decide for yourself.

Made possible in part by the Fred W. Smith Gallery Fund and additional support from Bethe and Tim Sullivan in memory of Rosemarie Magness

All That Glitters

Is Not Gold

A surprising history of the 1920s and Prohibition in Ventura County. As population and wealth boomed, creativity flourished – but so did a tide of repression and exclusion. This exhibit tells the local story of the jazz age through our collections and archives.

This exhibit made possible in part by the generous support of:

The John Hammer Family,

The Heritage Fund at VCCF,

The DeArkland Family, and

Chrisman Estate Co.

Chromatic:

The Museum in Six Colors

MVC’s permanent collection, amassed over 100 years, ranges from everyday items belonging to real people who lived and worked in the county, to rarities and precious works of art. Each object has a story to tell, and this exhibit opens the door to those stories.

This exhibit made possible in part by the generous support of:

and Pierpont Racquet Club

Tomols to Trains:

County Transportation

through the 1900s

at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula

Tomols to Trains explores how transportation played a role in Ventura County’s history. Visit the communities that struggled with the changes brought about by new modes of transportation.

See how towns and cities changed, how suburbs grew, and how our farms and other industries became part of regional, national, and international economies.

Learn more here.

Made possible by the

Heritage Fund at VCCF

Farm to Market

at the Agriculture Museum

in Santa Paula

An interactive exhibit promoting healthy lifestyles through role-play, the Ag Market is an immersive environment where children and families identify healthy food choices in a market-like atmosphere.

Learn more about what the

Agriculture Museum has to offer here.

Special thanks to

Santa Paula’s Mayor Carlos Juarez for volunteering his time and

talent in building our

fun-filled indoor market