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. …
The WHY Behind Delaroche’s Napoleon Painting
JS owns a painting on porcelain of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), not painted in the way we usually picture the Emperor. Here we see a sad little …
Haven, an exhibition of 10” x 10” prints created by Santa Barbara Printmakers
Artists Claudia Borfiga and Meagan Stirling talk about their Haven, an exhibition of 10” x 10” prints created by Santa Barbara Printmakers exhibit at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara …
Checklist: How I LOOK at and JUDGE a Work of Art
I own a household of ‘orphan’ works of art untracible to an artist. I judged them to be very fine pieces. This checklist gives you six steps to understand the …
Why I Purchased This Orphan Painting
I received an overwhelming response to my article “How to Judge a Thrift Store Painting.” One reader asked if I owned an ‘orphan’ painting in my home. She wants me …
Martin Luther King, Jr. Santa Barbara 2020 Celebration
Hyman T Johnson PhD and poet Sojourner Kincaid Rolle talk about the Martin Luther King, Jr. Santa Barbara 2020 Celebration, January 17 – January 20.