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.
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 standing. New Members welcome! Please visit our website for information on membership. No work that has been previously shown at Studio Channel Islands Art Center will be accepted.
May morning be astir with the harvest of night;
Your mind quickening to the eros of a new question,
Your eyes seduced by some unintended glimpse
That cut right through the surface to a source.
May this morning be a morning of innocent beginning,
When the gift within you slips clear
Of the sticky web of the personal
With its hurt and its hauntings,
And fixed fortress corners,
A morning when you become a pure vessel
For what wants to ascend from silence,
May your imagination know
The grace of perfect danger,
To reach beyond imitation,
And the wheel of repetition,
Deep into the call of all
The unfinished and unsolved
Until the veil of the unknown yields
And something original begins
To stir toward your senses
And grow stronger in your heart
In order to come to birth
In a clear line of form,
That claims from time
A rhythm not yet heard,
That calls space to
A different shape.
May it be its own force field
And dwell uniquely
Between the heart and the light
To surprise the hungry eye
By how deftly it fits
About its secret loss.
By John O’Donohue from his book, “To Bless the Space Between Us.”
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