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Museum of Ventura County update for April 10 — 2nd Annual VUSD Art Show Opening Reception

by Community Contributor • April 10, 2019 • Comments Off

TOMORROW! Please join the Museum of Ventura County’s Latino Advisory Committee for an after work mixer on Thursday, April 11, 2019 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Learn more about the Museum’s reinvention plan, the role of this important advisory group and how the community can get involved. The mixer is open to the public and free to attend.

The committee will convene at 100 E. Main Street in the Museum Courtyard. Refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you at the Museum!

3rd Annual Agriculture Career Exploration Day at the Ag!

Last Friday, middle school and high school students from throughout the County participated in the 3rd Annual Agriculture Career Exploration Day at the Museum of Ventura County’s Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula.

Representatives from colleges that offer agriculture courses, and representatives from Ventura County based agriculture businesses, set-up information tables and talked to students about agriculture education programs and available careers in the agriculture industry.

The event was organized in conjunction with Ventura County Ag Week and in partnership with Totally Local VC.

2nd Annual VUSD Art Show Opening Reception

April 18 @ 6 p.m. Ventura Unified School District has announced the 2nd Annual VUSD Art Show, highlighting its incredibly talented K-12 student artists. The opening reception is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10.00.

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Camerata Pacifica: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert & Brahms

April 14 @ 3 p.m. Tickets are still available for Camerata Pacifica! Join us at the Museum for an afternoon of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert & Brahms.

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CMHS Ethics in Healthcare Services

April 17 @ 5:30 p.m. The Ethics in Healthcare Series is designed to educate and engage the community about controversial and contemporary subjects which occur at the intersection of medicine, politics and society. This event is free to attend!

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Ventura Master Gardeners: Straw Bale Raised Beds for Veggies

May 4 @ 10:30 a.m. Join Lee Rosenboom of the Ventura County Master Gardeners at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula as he presents the advantages and conveniences of growing your vegetables in a raised bed.

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Annual Young Author’s Fair & Family Literacy Celebration

May 4 @ 11 a.m. The Young Authors Fair is a festive and educational event designed to present student writing along with family reading activities that include a special presentation by a guest author!

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The Channel Islands Orchestral Suite by Ashley Broder

May 24 @ 6:30 p.m. These previews and lectures, with guest biologist, William Hoyer, intend to introduce to the public the new commissioned work through the eyes of the composer, performers and advocates.

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Design in the Making: Ventura County Architecture

Design in the Making is a community Architectural Exhibit exploring the dynamic role of architects and designers in affecting positive change in our community through the creative design process.

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Santa Paula’s Treasured Architecture at the Ag Museum

While by no means a complete list of the amazing historic homes in the community, Santa Paula Treasured Architecture is a snapshot of the sophisticated and varied architectural styles that reflect the taste and influences of Santa Paula’s past.

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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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Broken: A Holocaust History in Fused Glass

The exhibit consists of six beautifully detailed and touching glass panels, as well as a book of poetry by Frances Elson’s sister, a memoir to her great-uncle, a compilation of Cantorial and Yiddish music, and much more.

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Tweet This! An Interactive Pop-Up for Children

Featuring an introduction to some of the birds of Ventura County, fun bird facts, bird sounds, eggs and nests of all shapes, sizes and colors, and a bird and egg touch table.

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Good Earth: Tilling the Soil

Visitors will discover the local history of farm implement manufacturers with factories in Oxnard that were instrumental in the development of the exhibit items on display.

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The Illusionist is on display at Studio Channels Islands until May 18, 2019. The exhibit features works by F. Scott Hess, Richard Macdonald, Sandy Yagi, Bryan Larson, Mark Gleason, Conor Walton, Pamela Wilson, Regina Jacobson, Guy Kinnear, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Roger Dean, and Vince Natale.

Imagine a fantastic world! Anything is possible in it, anything can be made manifest. The difficulty is to share these things with other people – how do we describe unreal things?

The art in this show gives us a window into the imagined worlds of the artists who made them – and what amazing worlds they are – some are dreamlike, some are frightening, some are bizarre. All of them are painted and sculpted in a way that makes them believable.

This exhibition has been curated by Michael Pearce of Cal Lutheran University as part of The Representational Art Conference 2019. TRAC2019 is the premier international event focused on cutting-edge representational art in the 21st century – where imagination matters and the mind meets the hand.