Member Appreciation Day!
Sunday, December 8, 2019
12pm—1:30pm
Calling all members! Join us at the Museum of Ventura County at 100 E. Main St. in Ventura for Member Appreciation Day this Sunday, December 8, 2019 from 12—1:30pm! Members will receive exclusive behind the scenestours of the Research Library, California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast exhibit, the collection, and the Albinger Archaeological Museum, as well as hear the State of the Museum presentation by The Barbara Barnard Smith Executive Director Elena Brokaw. There will be raffle drawings and light refreshments, plus a chance at the Grand Prize Drawing — a 4-night stay in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico courtesy of Hathaway Dream Vacations! Members don’t want to miss out.
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RSVP is required by December 5th. Please call 805-653-0323 ext. 330 or email sgordon@venturamuseum.org, and include the number of guests attending.
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Lupe Anguiano
and Debora Wright
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2pm—3:30pm
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From humble but proud origins picking fruit with her family in the fields of California to her success in helping thousands of Americans rise out of poverty and escape the chains of welfare, “An Uncompromising Life: The Lupe Angiuano Story”, is the untold saga of one woman’s courage and heroism in her lifelong struggle to improve the lives of all Americans.
Books will be available for purchase. Author Debora Wright and Lupe Anguiano will be signing copies of “An Uncompromising Life: The Lupe Angiuano Story” following the discussion.
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The Journal of
Ventura County
Roll Over The Ranchos
The Museum of Ventura County is pleased to announce that copies of the Journal of Ventura County’s newest edition, Volume 61 containing “Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884”, are now available for sale in the Museum’s store!
Originally published in 1955, these stories have been updated with additional photographs and both “A Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884” have been enhanced with updated footnotes, including biographical information and additional footnotes to help the reader place the geographic references and the people in that long ago time. The Journal is made possible by the generosity of Jim Holden, Linda Hadlen, Grace Brandt, and Mary Stewart.
The journal is available for purchase for $10 in the museum store and the e-book version is available for purchase exclusively through Amazon.
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Are you a member of the Museum of Ventura County? Explore, discover and celebrate at the Museum everyday for free!
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Become a member today and receive an invite to the annual Member Appreciation Day on Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 12—1:30pm.
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Member Appreciation Day at MVC
December 8, 2019 @ 12—1:30pm Mark your calendars and join us for Member Appreciation Day at the Museum of Ventura County on Sunday, December 8, 2019 from 12—1:30pm. RSVP today!
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Lupe Anguiano and Biographer Debora Wright
December 8, 2019 @ 2—3:30pm Join us at the Museum of Ventura County for a discussion between Lupe Anguiano and biographer Debora Wright. Admission is Free for Museum members, $5 for nonmembers.
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Virgencitas & Las Posadas at the Ag
December 14, 2019 @ 5—8 pm Join us at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula Las Posadas and the opening of Virgencitas! Admission is free and includes food, live entertainment, costumes and more.
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California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast
Step back in time to a cooler and more sophisticated era of design. This new exhibit explores the popular design movement in interior & graphic design, architecture, and urban development from 1945 to 1965.
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Unbridled with the Compton Cowboys at the Ag
The latest exhibit to ride into the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula is Compton Cowboys, a photo series documenting the work and mentorship of modern-day urban cowboys counseling at-risk youth in South Central Los Angeles.
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Woven Earth
Woven Earth is now open! Displaying a wide range of hand-woven baskets from the Museum’s extensive collection, this new exhibit focuses on California’s native communities and the traditions involved in making these baskets.
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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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Chumash Gallery
The vibrant exhibition space provides a more immersive environment for young visitors with the addition of large colorful graphics, more artifacts and interactive stations that provide hands-on experiences.
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Beyond Function: Fiber, Wood and Clay will be on view at the Santa Paula Art Museum through January 12, 2020 and is a multidimensional exhibition featuring the work of three local craftsmen. In exhibiting their respective wares alongside each other, Santa Paula woodworker Michael Adams, Santa Paula potter Nate Pidduck, and Westlake Village weaver Michael Rohde demonstrate how traditional crafts like weaving, woodworking and pottery go well beyond function to transform our everyday lives and spaces. Artworks in the exhibition will be available for purchase.
Each of the three artists – Adams, Pidduck and Rohde – was inspired towards his craft by a single object. As a young man, Rohde saw someone wearing a handwoven shirt. Adams grew up experimenting with tools that belonged to his father, a machinist. Pidduck picked up a wheel-thrown coffee mug during a road trip after college. “I thought I was a little crazy for being so interested in a coffee mug,” Pidduck confesses, but he has since found community with many like-minded makers, Adams and Rohde included. And, of course, each of the three men has his favorite tool: for Adams it’s his high-powered Agazzani bandsaw that he bought from his late friend Paul; Rohde has used the same large-scale loom since the late 1970s; and Pidduck prefers his treadle (i.e. human-powered) potter’s wheel.
While the processes for creating tapestries, furniture and pottery are quite different from each other, they share a few essential qualities. They are lengthy and laborious, which testifies to the true devotion that each of these three craftsmen has to his work. With each piece, Adams searches out a piece of wood with the appropriate character, draws his design, takes measurements, makes cuts, sands, assembles and lays multiple finishes. Pidduck throws each and every pot on his wheel, fires it in a kiln for 16 hours, mixes and applies glazes, and fires the pot again. Rohde cleans and coils his wool yarn into “skeins,” mixes his own dyes and then colors his yarns in a makeshift, outdoor kitchen. (“I used to dye in the laundry room until I was accused of making stains on clothes,” he laughs. “It wasn’t true!”) Only then does he proceed with the act of weaving, which, for a large-scale tapestry, can take up to three months. “I like the pace. It forces me to slow down.”
What Adams, Pidduck and Rohde demonstrate most fully though is that the purpose they each find in their craft goes well beyond function. They love to create objects that will live in other peoples’ homes and add beauty and joy to someone else’s life.
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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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