1970s Folk Craftsmanship
At the Boys & Girls Club, my favorite thrift store in Ventura, I found an ugly Brutalist folk art style wood carving. This one-legged man sits with a cane. For …
Winnie Cheung and Friends
Winnie cheung discusses her show with Nomad Tango, Winnie Cheung and Friends on Sunday, August 3 at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club. Watch Video
Overcoming Artist Block
My Montecito artist friend, AWS, experienced the phenomena we call “artist block.” He taught a class to a local Arts Association about ways to overcome “creative block.” He called last …
19th-Century French Art from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Brigette Ginter talks with Eichholz Foundation Director Amada Cruz about the Encore: 19th-Century French Art from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art show on exhibit October 5, 2025 – January …
Masks of the Zaire Region
KMcD sent me a photo of four African masks purchased in Tanzania and Kenya, originally from Zaire, the Congo. I love these masks because I spent two years in upper …
Mary Shelley: Year With No Summer
Award-winning novelist and playwright Jule Selbo talks about the world premiere of her play Mary Shelley: Year With No Summer presented by the Ojai Performing Arts Theater August 8-17 at …
Modernism Philosophy Centered Around Affordable Furniture
At age twenty I worked as a dancer in Michigan with a touring company of Showboat. I loved the Grand Rapids area. One day off in the late 1970s I …
Rincon Point
Authors Stephen Bates and Vincent Burns talk about their new book Rincon Point, part of Arcadia Publishing’s best-selling Images of America History Book series. Watch Video!
MINDCLAY – A Healing Modality created by Pinter
Dr. Marco Pinter discusses his latest venture, MindClay, which creates mental wellness interventions harnessed beautifully by various art based activities and accessed in the form of an app by its …
Dating Portrait and Gender By Clothing Style
In many collections of American portraits of young children from the 1830-70s we ‘moderns’ cannot distinguish the genders of the sitters. SC sent me a little portrait of a child …