Appraiser Talks About Selling in Today’s Art Market
Are you an Artist? Then this Appraiser wants to speak to you about selling in today’s art MARKET. WHAT is your strategy for SELLING your art? I’m a career Appraiser …
Rookwood Factory: a Long and Varied History
MP might purchase a lovely piece of late 19th century pottery, which looks quite modern. It could have been potted yesterday. She found it for sale at Punch on State …
Shirley Valentine at Ojai ACT
Actress Anna Kotula talks about her one-woman play Shirley Valentine at the Ojai Art Center Theater through February 16. She’s joined by Co-Producer Richard Sven Shelgren.
Pediophobia Makes Doll Collecting Impossible
Mary Anne sent me photographs of a collection of dolls she wants to sell. She packaged them up in original boxes. The dolls are part of the “Victorian Collection” by …
Tsuba Sword Guards, Not a Toy
What are these “little disks?” wrote VA, a reader all the way from South Africa. She said her Uncle collected these odd tiddlywinks. She has no idea where he got …
These Complicated Women
Writer Claudia Hoag McGarry, and actors Shay Monroe, Peter Rojas, and Kathleen Russell Hardin talk about the play These Complicated Women, which happens at Center Stage Theater Saturday, January 25 …
An Ohio American Primitive Rocking Chair
CH sent me a photograph of a ladderback rocking chair given (tradition has it) to CH’s great-grandparents as a wedding gift from CH’s great-great-grandfather in Ohio. Let’s describe the rocker …
Larry Irweks
Musician/artist Larry Irweks talks his father Don Iwerks and his father’s book about his grandfather, Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks. Both Ub and Don worked at …
Frederick Stuart Church: A True American Artist
I snapped up this illustration of a tiger observing a singing bird on a branch, at Destined for Grace Thrift Store in Goleta. The signature reads “F S CHURCH.” One …
A Little Glass Pitcher with a lot of Class
F from Santa Barbara once owned a large collection of art glass, now mostly sold. But he saved a little glass pitcher with “Gladys” written on it in enamel pant. …