ARTISTS’ HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE FEATURES 50 ARTISTS
Festive event features live music, festive food and family fun. Original photographs, beautiful bronze sculptures, unique paintings, charming jewelry and other works of art will be available for sale at the Artist’s Holiday Marketplace and Open Studios event on Friday evening, Dec. 2, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in conjunction with Camarillo’s annual tree lighting ceremony and all day Saturday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Studio Channel Islands Art Center located at 2222 Ventura Boulevard Old Town Camarillo. On Friday evening the...
read moreGerd Koch’s Private Guided Tour to Santa Barbara Museum of Art
“Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912” November 17, 9:30 to 5pm Gerd Koch will lead a group of ten guests to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This is the first exhibition to unite some of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue. The day will start with a guided tour by a Santa Barbara Museum of Art docent. Afterwards, Gerd Koch will discuss and answer questions. The group will also view some of the paintings on...
read moreHalloween in Old Town
The Green Lantern, an Indian princess, a clown, Batman and a vampire descended on Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Old Town Camarillo to decorate treat bags and compete in a costume contest sponsored by the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce as part of the Old Town Halloween on Saturday, Oct. 29. “The artists are always on board for all of our Old Town events,” said Lara Shapiro, marketing director for the chamber. Studio Channels Islands’ Artists-in-Residence helped children decorate treat bags using paper cutouts of cats, spiders and...
read moreParents rescue program for gifted students
By Donna Griffin, Special to The Star FULL STORY For Dr. Cathy Kim, learning to be an active partner in her gifted son’s education started the day she found drawings on a video game-style work sheet in his backpack. She was astounded by his happiness with his creation and his yearning for more art. “That was very motivating,” Kim said. She became determined to help him find those opportunities despite state cuts to school budgets. The cutbacks had left Kim’s son and many other students in Pleasant Valley School...
read moreWearable Art Exhbit
Saturday, October 15, 9am – 3pm at the Studios on 2222 Ventura Blvd! Studio Channel Islands Open Artists’ Studios & Annual Harvest Festival by Ventura County Hand Weavers and Spinner’s Guild Demos, raffle & sales of all things “fiber”: spinning fibers, weaving looms, books, yarns, beads, wearable art, handcrafted jewelry & more, including all artists studios being...
read moreStudio Painting Party
You may have noticed (or not) that we got a facelift from the same old white walls to beautiful new colors. Our studio walls along Elm Street got worked on a few weeks ago by studio artists along with some help from our friends and family.Stop by and take a look for yourself, in the mean time, here are some photos to give you an idea of how we did. [nggallery...
read moreOpen First Saturdays Each Month
Beginning this Saturday, October 1, and continuing the first Saturday of each month, the nearly 40 resident artists at Studio Channel Islands Art Center will open their studios to the public from 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is free. The studios are located in Old Town Camarillo at 2222 Ventura Boulevard with entrances on Ventura Blvd. and Elm Street. Visitors are invited to browse the artists’ work, their work-space and meet the artists personally. The artists cover a wide variety of artistic media including oil and water color painting,...
read moreVC Star – Artistic Touch features Carolyn Barone
Carolyn Barone is as interested in promoting other artists as herself. On the walls of her Westlake Village home, pieces by local artists who have inspired her are mixed in with her own painted still lifes and portraits. “Working with other artists and collecting their work is the soul of my inspiration,” she said. Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/dec/14/westlake-womans-gm-career-was-followed-by-art/ –...
read moreAnnual Membership Exhibit : Call for Entries
“Show and Tell” Exhibit Dates: November 3 – 26, 2011 Artists’ Reception and Awards: Saturday, November 5, 4pm – 6pm Number of entries Up to three (3) entries $35.00 Four (4) entries $45.00 Five (5) entries $55.00 Six (6) entries $65.00 Seven (7) entries $75.00 Every piece of art has a story. Show the best work you have created in the past twelve months and be prepared to talk about it briefly. “Show and Tell” is open to all media, to members of Studio Channel Islands Art Center only. Members must be in good...
read moreArtistic Touch: Fingernails were her first canvas
Sherri Cassell went from designing art for fingernails to watercolor painting and acrylic, then pastels, and now encaustics. Read her story in the Ventura County Star:...
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