Santa Paula Art Museum — We’ve Added Lots of Dimension

Art projects and resources to inspire you and your family

Play with Sculpture

Last week’s Art To-Go Bag giveaway from the Santa Paula Art Museum included clay for kids to create three-dimensional artworks at home. We’re especially fascinated by 3D art right now seeing that the Museum is filled with artist Duane Dammeyer’s incredible stone sculptures (see below). But you don’t need clay or stone to be a sculptor! You can make a clay substitute like salt dough/playdough with just flour, salt and water.

Museum Moment

Undersea Life by Duane Dammeyer, 2019, calcite on granite, 10.5 x 19 x 12 inches. Available for purchase.

Join Santa Paula Art Museum Curator of Creativity Meg Phelps for a Museum Moment: a few minutes to consider the stories behind, and the elements within artworks that we love. In this installment we look at Duane Dammeyer’s sculpture Undersea Life from the Museum’s current exhibition Inspiration and Influence.

To learn more, check out SmartHistory.org and their sections on texture and movement in art.

The Art of Moving Free Virtual Yoga Class

Wednesday, May 27, 2020, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

We’re rounding out the month of May with one more free The Art of Moving class on Wednesday, May 27! Join instructor Robin Briceno online for a virtual yoga and movement class streamed live from the Museum and inspired by the art currently on exhibit. The class will feature gentle Hatha yoga poses accessible for beginners and all levels of experience, followed by a guided art activity to untether your intrinsic creative flow. Grab a yoga mat if you have one, plus some paper, pens, pencil, markers or crayons. Preregistration via Zoom is required.

Study for Skillin-Carroll Mortuary (now Perez Family Funeral Home) Mural in Santa Paula, California by Jessie Arms Botke and Cornelis Botke, 1933. Collection of the Santa Paula Art Museum – Gift of Joanna and Randy Axell.

Online Exhibit: The First Decade – Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions

We’re making way for a new exhibit in the Museum’s Douglas Shively Gallery, so if you didn’t get the chance to see The First Decade in person, you can view it online. Learn more about the art and artists that populate the Museum’s permanent collection.

Biodiversity #93 by Hiroko Yoshimoto, 2016, oil on canvas. Collection of the artist.

Lum Art Zine: Hiroko Yoshimoto and Haikus

In April we challenged our followers to write haikus inspired by artist Hiroko Yoshimoto’s Biodiversity #22 from the Museum’s permanent collection. Local contemporary art magazine Lum Art Zine was inspired to write a beautiful article featuring paintings by Hiroko, haikus by her mother, Teiko Yoshimoto, with translations by her sister, Shoko Yoshimoto Miura, PhD. We’re looking forward to Hiroko’s solo show at the Santa Paula Art Museum in 2022!

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