Welcome to 2012. Saturday January 7th will be our first Open Studio Tour for the year. This is a unique opportunity to stop in to see artists in their working studios. Come before noon, and pick up something for dinner at the Farmer’s market too! Studio Hours are 10 to 4.
2222 Ventura Blvd
Old Town Camarillo, CA 93010
See ya here.
This holiday season, Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Old Town Camarillo opened its doors to shoppers who were fed up with fighting crowds and waiting in lines at department stores. The Artists’ Holiday Marketplace on Dec. 2nd and 3rd offered guests a chance to browse hundreds of unique handmade gifts in a relaxing, old-world environment.
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 Artists’ Holiday Marketplace will be a stop on the free trolley traveling the boulevard.
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 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 bones, and potato stamps shaped like ghosts and pumpkins.
“We prepared the potatoes yesterday for the kids to use as stamps,” artist in residence Christine Leong said. Leong specializes in Asian watercolor paintings on rice paper. She passed out candy to the trick-or-treaters.
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.