Family Fun Day:
Persian New Year Celebration
Saturday, March 19th from 12-2pm
@ the Museum of Ventura County
Free
Bring in the beginning of spring and the Persian New Year with family and friends at the Museum of Ventura County. This event is celebrated on the spring equinox by millions of people across the globe as a season of rebirth and good luck. This cultural event will be a fun afternoon for families and adults alike! Click here to learn more about this free event. Brought to you in part by the generous support of
Aera Energy
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Ivor Davis:
Up Close and Personal
with Dianne Lake
Thursday, March 24th from 6:30-8pm
at the Museum of Ventura County
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Dianne Lake was a seventh-grade student whose hippie parents abandoned their traditional suburban lifestyle to join the Wavy Gravy’s Hog Farm Commune in Tujunga, California. Along the way, her parents met a man named Charles Manson. They were so impressed by him that they turned their young daughter over to him. What happened next is a personal odyssey that is hard to believe. She will tell her own story of survival and redemption in the Museum’s newest episode of Ivor Davis: Up Close and Personal.
Click here to RSVP and learn more.
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Margaret Garcia:
An Intimate Portrait Documentary Screening
Saturday, March 26th from 3-5pm
at the Museum of Ventura County
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Margaret Garcia: An Intimate Portrait by filmmaker Ruben A. Zavala takes you on a journey into the private life of a trailblazing American painter and one of Southern California’s most authentic voices. Over a long-spanning career, visionary artist Margaret Garcia has transcended the Chicano art movement with her fearless fauvist approach to painting an intriguing variety of subjects while capturing raw human experiences.
Click here to RSVP and learn more.
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Story Time
at the Museum:
Earth Day
Friday, April 1st from 3-4pm
at the Museum of Ventura County
The Museum of Ventura County has been partnering with the County Library to bring bilingual (in English and Spanish) in-person Story Time every first Friday of the month at 3pm, for free. That way kids will have time to come right after school. This month’s theme is EARTH DAY. Join us for stories, then play and learn in the Evelyn and Howard Boroughs Chumash Children’s Garden, a fabulous and FREE outing for ALL!
Click here to learn more.
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Mariposas del Campo Documentary Screening
Saturday, April 9th from 2-5pm
(Pre-event music with Juan Mendoza and bar will start at 2pm.
The event formally starts at 3pm.)
at the Museum of Ventura County
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Mariposas del Campo, an award-winning film by Bill Yahraus and Robin Rosenthal, shares the stories of indigenous Mixtec, Zapotec, and Purépecha teenagers from Mexico striving to change their family’s destinies in the strawberry fields of Oxnard, California. The documentary captures their journeys—with help from the characters’ own intimate videos—as they navigate cultural identity, parental expectations, economic challenges, and the justice needs of their migrant farmworker community. For young people whose lives have always been steeped in uncertainty, it takes a leap of faith to chase a dream.
Click here to RSVP to this free event. English to Spanish interpretation generously provided by Amada Irma Perez. English to Mixteco by MICOP.
Sponsored by the
Latino Advisory Committee, Oxnard Film Society, and MICOP (Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project)
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Monoprint Workshop
with Margaret Garcia
Sunday, April 10th from 11am-2pm
at the Museum of Ventura County
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This fundamental monoprint workshop provides the opportunity to be taught by the prolific artists Margaret Garcia and Bonnie Lambert. Students will walk away with the basic knowledge needed to learn how to create their very own monoprints. Students will also be able to walk away with their very own monoprint in hand. Supplies will be provided for the workshop, but it is recommended that students arrive with their own paintbrushes. This class is for anyone 16 years of age and over.
Click here to RSVP and learn more.
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Write your own text to go with the featured image for your chance to win a Museum of Ventura County mug, a collection of our custom pens, or an artistic magnet showcasing a popular painting by Margaret Garcia! The Museum of Ventura County’s Meme Contest is our way of making your local history free, accessible, and engaging for people of all ages.
Click here to join the fun.
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Digital Jigsaw Puzzles
Women’s Portraits
Please take a moment to relax with our new online jigsaw puzzles featuring women photographed by John Calvin Brewster. Brewster photographed people and places in Ventura County from 1874 until his death in 1909. Close to 300 of his stunning photos have been digitized by the Research Library to date.
Brought to you in part by the
generous support of
Ellen Brokaw and
Al Lowe Construction
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Journal Flashback
The St. Francis Dam’s Death Toll
In this month’s Journal Flashback we’re sharing an article by Patricia Allen on the horrific toll of the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928. The dam was completed in 1926, located in what is now Santa Clarita. The dam broke near midnight of March 12, 1928, sending a wave of water and debris down the Santa Clara River watershed. Buildings, belongings, and people were swept away as far as the Oxnard plains and the Pacific Ocean. The tragedy remains the second-greatest loss of life in California’s history, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
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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.
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Arte Para la Gente:
The Collected Works of Margaret Garcia
Now – Spring 2022
at the Museum of Ventura County
Arte Para la Gente explores artist Margaret Garcia’s vast body of work that captures and encapsulates culture, family, and urban life. Over the past four decades, Margaret Garcia has been a leader in the L.A. Chicano Art Movement, championing women, community, and those individuals who are marginalized by society. Her most recent works, many shown here for the first time, were painted in Ventura County.
Sponsored by
Lazer Media
KXLM 102.9 • KLJR 96.7 • KOXR 102.1
and The Port of Hueneme
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Crossing Borders
at the Museum of Ventura County
Crossing Borders features select works from the Museum collection along with works by artists in the community who have immigrated to the US, sometimes as refugees in search of a safe haven, bringing their talent and creative
ideas with them.
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America’s Revolution
George Stuart Historical Figures®
at the Museum of Ventura County
Through these intensely
researched and intricately created Historical Figures®, George Stuart captures the colorful personalities involved in America’s struggle for independence.
Funding provided by the
Fred W. Smith Gallery Fund
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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 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
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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.
Special thanks to
Santa Paula’s Mayor Carlos Juarez for volunteering his time and
talent in building our
fun-filled indoor market.
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Blood Drive
Saturday, March 26th from 9am-1pm
at Neighborhood Car Care
Because of you, life doesn’t stop.
To schedule an appointment please visit donors.vitalant.org. Blood Drive Code 8078. For questions please call (805) 543-4290. Advance appointments are encouraged to help maintain social distancing. All donors must bring and wear a mask or cloth-based face covering. Sponsored by
the Ventura Lion’s Club
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Watch Season 3 of
MVC Insider!
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Explore over a dozen virtual and 3D exhibits, including Nordic Myths & Legends, Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines, California Cool, and more!
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Engage with us on social media where you’ll find our latest news, as well as incredible artifacts, reels, and art from our collections!
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Museum of Ventura County Business Club members are community leaders who are committed to the region’s history, art, and stories.
MVC thanks our current
for their support:
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Major funding for these programs is made possible by the City of
San Buenaventura, the County of Ventura and private and community donors.
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Museum of Ventura County • 100 East Main St. Ventura, CA 93001 • 805.653.0323
Agriculture Museum • 926 Railroad Ave. Santa Paula, CA 93060 • 805.525.3100
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