Museum of Ventura County — Woven Earth Opens Nov. 12th, Announcing Member Appreciation Day and more

Woven Earth Opens Tuesday, November 12th at the Museum of Ventura County!
Displaying a wide range of hand-woven baskets from the Museum’s extensive collection, Woven Earth focuses on California’s native communities and the traditions involved in making these baskets.
Basket weaving is an ancient craft that is tied to both land and spirit. Baskets were an integral part of Chumash life, being used from the most honored to the most menial of tasks.
Photo is of Petra Pico (seated) and Donaciana Salaza taken between 1890 and 1900. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Museum of Ventura County.
However, these vessels not only aided with the everyday, but they told stories of trade, shared cultural movements, the spread of technologies, self-expressionism and the very lining of history itself. By displaying a wide range of hand-woven Chumash baskets selected from the Museum of Ventura County’s extensive collection this exhibit will focus on the methodology and living traditions that have been handed down from generation to generation into our present day.
Woven Earth opens at the Museum of Ventura County on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 and is on display until January 19, 2020.
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Ventura County Farm Day at the Ag

November 9, 2019 @ 10am—4pm Join us at the Agriculture Museum for Ventura County Farm Day! Admission is free, and more than 15 of Ventura County’s farms, ranches and agricultural organization will open their door to the public.

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Camerata Pacifica

November 10, 2019 @ 3 p.m. Experience Mozart Duo, Beethoven String Quartet and Vierne Piano Quintet at your county museum! Camerata Pacifica’s mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music.

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Free Figure Drawing at the Museum

November 12, 2019 @ 6 p.m. It’s never too early to plan for the next Free Figure Drawing session! Join the Museum’s Artist in Resident, Ryan Carr, every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Pavilion.

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Mayor’s Arts Awards

November 15, 2019 @ 5:30-8:00 p.m. Ventura Mayor Matt LaVere is proud to announce the winners of the 15th annual Mayor’s Arts Awards and invites the public to attend its reception at the Museum of Ventura County.

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David G. Garcia, Ph.D. Lecture & Book Signing

November 16, 2019 @ 3 p.m. David G. Garcia, Ph.D. will discuss and sign copies of his book, “Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality”.

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Focus on the Masters: Linda Ekstrom

November 17, 2019 @ 3 p.m. In the writings of Linda Ekstrom, “Words and narrative are the central subject matter of my work. Books are transformed, seeking for the spiritedness of the text, giving to the words a visual vitality.”

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Member Appreciation Day at MVC

December 8, 2019 @ 12 p.m. Mark your calendars and join us for Member Appreciation Day at the Museum of Ventura County on Sunday, December 8, 2019 from 12—1:30 PM.

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Lupe Anguiano and Biographer Debora Wright

December 8, 2019 @ 2 p.m. 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 p.m. 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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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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Buenaventura Art Association Collegiate Student Competition

The Buenaventura Art Association’s Collegiate Student Competition is on display October 12—November 9, 2019 in the Museum’s Pavilion.

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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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Woven Earth — Opens November 12 @ MVC!

Woven Earth opens November 12, 2019! 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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venturamuseum.org

Beneath the Surface in Thousand Oaks
Empathy: Beneath the Surface opened at the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks on October 18, 2019 and features Hung Liu, John Nava, Simphiwe Ndzube, Ami Vitale, Marisa Caichiolo, Marjorie Salvaterra and Tom Everhart. Curated by Lynn Farrand, this powerful group exhibition on view through February 16, 2020.
“Empathy: Beneath the Surface” presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the idea of empathy and personal agency, with works that explore the universal themes that confront, and ultimately bind, us.
Through six distinct gallery spaces covering 5,000 sq. feet, visitors will view paintings, sculpture, virtual reality, mix-media installation, photography and tapestries all bound together by the idea of empathy and personal agency.
“I feel it is imperative to discuss empathy and for us to remain connected as a community,” stated Lynn Farrand, exhibition curator. “In these artists, I see an empathic, conscious choice to go beneath the surface of what separates us to reveal the universal experiences and emotions that bind us together.”
Among the exhibition’s featured artists:
Hung Liu, described by the Wall Street Journal as “the greatest Chinese painter in the US,” whose riveting, large-scale paintings speak to themes of endurance and strength set against the passage of time and anonymity.
Marjorie Salvaterra, whose cinematic, black and white photos rest momentarily in the absurd while simultaneously examining gender roles and connecting with ways individuals cope.
Rising star Simphiwe Ndzube, whose sculpture and and two-dimensional surfaces might be borne from a subjective account of the black experience in post-apartheid South Africa but have universal relevancy of resilience and hope.
Conceptional artist and curator, Marisa Caichiolo, work focuses issues of home life and viscerally connects us to family structures and recovery.
Award-winning National Geographic photographer, Ami Vitale, whose virtual reality experience allows visitors to connect with endangered elephants to dwell upon unconditional love and what motivates individuals to protect.
Nationally renowned figurative painter John Nava’s stunning neo-icon tapestries speak out on personal agency and the empathic message of being heard.
Fine artist, Tom Everhart, whose larger-than-life paintings straddle the line between the comfortably familiar and a new way of seeing. As the only artist allowed to use the Peanuts™ characters in his art, Everhart utilizes the instantly recognizable image of Snoopy, Linus and other characters to communicate a new sensibility – one that is at once accessible and exotic.

23rd Annual Ojai Holiday Home Tour & Marketplace

November 16-17, 2019 @ 10am—4pm Be inspired at the Annual Ojai Holiday Home Tour & Marketplace in the Ojai Valley. This treasured tradition, presented by the Ojai Festival Women’s Committee, invites guests to tour four distinctive Ojai Valley homes.

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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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