Explore California - Episode 8: Bart's Books of Ojai
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road...
Bart's Books has the distinction of being the largest independently owned outdoor bookstore in the U.S., with a very healthy selection of mostly used books to choose from. And we found it to be a unique and inviting literary experience... as well as home to a cat named Pygmy.
1,800 Cars in Rural California | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 17
Barn Find Hunter Tom Cotter has discovered more than his share of hidden gems over the years. But nearly 1,800 classic cars in one location? Now, that’s a real treasure trove. Needless to say, artist Tom Merkel’s Cuyama Historical Car Garden in northern California—“a memorial to the men of machines and the machines of men”—is unique. Tom Cotter, rattle-snake stick in hand, pokes around a bit and finds a 1960 Jaguar XK 150 coupe with an Oldsmobile engine up front.
Barn Find Hunter episode 17, presented by Shell and Quaker State, continues to Fontana, Calif., where Tom checks out a 1929 Ford Model A roadster and a 1965 Ford Falcon Futura, which he quickly discovers is a real “cat’s meow.”
Then it’s on to a junk yard, where vehicles (like a 1939 Ford pickup, 1957 Thunderbird, and 1972 Datsun 510) have been accumulating for more than six decades. Farther down the road, Tom wins over a suspicious property owner who agrees to show him his 1956 Ford pickup, 1964 Chevrolet El Camino, 1968 Mercury Cougar, 1966 Ford Galaxie, and 1972 Ford Gran Torino.
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Flash Tag Art Exhibit at California African-American Museum
Flash Tag Art Exhibit
California African-American Museum
Photographed By: Badir McCleary
Directed and Edited By: Badir McCleary
Music By: Verbz Beats
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Explore California - Episode 7: California Oil Museum & Murals of Santa Paula
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road...
California Oil Museum is located in the famous Union Oil Company building in Santa Paula, and houses a unique display of antique gas pumps and oil industry memorabilia. We'll also take a peek at some of the gorgeous Murals of Santa Paula, revealing the city's striking heritage.
American Glass Works
The Ojai Valley Museum opens American Glass Works on January 19th.
Ontario Connects - 2017 Ontario Museum of History & Art Landscape Renovations Completed
On February 6, 2017 the Ontario City Council hosted a variety of public and private organizations as well as members of the community to dedicate the completion of the landscape renovations at the Ontario Museum of History & Art. The landscape renovations transformed 2.4 acres of water-consuming turf and asphalt parking lot, on the grounds of the Museum, into a sustainable outdoor education garden with multiple environmental, economic, health and social benefits.
This project, funded by an Urban Greening Project for Sustainable Communities Grant, was completed in four months. The new grounds include two gardens, one that focuses on Native American Tongva Plants and the other is a California Native Plant Demonstration Garden. There are all-weather permeable concrete pavers, an infiltration basin, vegetative swales, and educational signage.
In addition to the landscape renovations, two new monument signs were added to the Museum grounds. The monument signs were part of a Capital Improvement Project investment by the City of Ontario. These monument signs serve as wayfinding for residents and visitors to the Museum.
Why collect art? Panel Discussion
Studio Channel Islands Art Center's Panel Discussion Series on Why to collect art?
Donna Granata (Time Marker of Speaking 38.00)
Donna Granata is the Founder and Executive Director of Focus on the Masters (FOTM), a highly respected non-profit educational program documenting contemporary artists. Founded in 1994, the goal of FOTM is to demonstrate the importance of the arts to society by bringing highly accomplished artists to the forefront of the community. The program presents its research to a broad public through photographic exhibitions, Artist Spotlight Interview Series (that is video-taped in front of a live audience) and their Learning To See educational outreach to schools and youth centers. FOTM has been the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of its outstanding contributions to arts education including the 2005 inaugural Ventura Mayor’s Art Award – Arts Educator and the 2007 Ventura County Arts Council Art Star Award. Focus on the Masters is recognized as one of the leading arts organizations in the state of California.
In addition to her ongoing lecture series for FOTM, Donna teaches art appreciation classes for the Road Scholar Elderhostel International including an Introduction to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Roman Villa and Laguna’s Pageant of the Masters. In addition, she taught portraiture for the Brooks Institute of Photography and has lectured for the journalism department at UCLA on the ethics of photography. Among her personal accolades are an Honorary Master’s of Science Degree from the Brooks Institute, Teacher of the Year by Elderhostel International and Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts from the City of Ojai, CA.
An accomplished artist in her own right, Donna is an internationally published and award winning photographer. Her photographs have been displayed across the United States. Selected works from her FOTM portrait series are housed in the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Artists; in the photographic Collection of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and other public institutions that house the personal archives of the artists documented. In addition, her work is in the collections of the Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, the Museum of Ventura County, the Ojai Valley Museum, and the City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection to name a few.
Donna received a Bachelor’s of Art Degree from the Brooks Institute and a Master of Arts Degree from USC Annenberg in Arts Journalism. She is listed in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women.
Tish Greenwood (Time Marker of Speaking 24.00)
Executive Director, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO) is dedicated to creating cultural spaces where ides are shared and people connect. With the support of the City of Thousand Oaks, CMATO is the new neighbor of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and is in the distinct position to realize its goal of establishing an enduring arts institution that will bring civic pride to the Conejo Valley Region. Tish’s professional experience includes positons at the J. Paul Getty Museum, photo l.a. and ArtSlant. Her experience working for the National Endowment for the Arts spurred her recent curatorial project Mass Appeal: The Art of Corita Kent. Tish shares her connoisseurship expertise with artists and collectors through her private advisory firm. Tish received her BA in Art History from John Cabot University, Rome, Italy and her MA in Museum Studies and Contemporary Art from Georgetown University and Sotheby’s Institute of Art-New York.
Anette Power (Time Marker of Speaking 10.00)
Award-winning artist Anette Power credits her mom, who also paints; and growing up on an island off the Swedish coast for providing a childhood full of creative exploration and a love for the outdoors.
After more than a decade of fine-tuning her sense of light, color and setting a mood, working as a background painter for studios like Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network and Universal, Anette now dedicates her time to painting in Oils.
“I find myself drawn to subject matters with light and color that celebrate life’s fleeting moments”, says Anette. “I enjoy painting on location immersing myself in the moment and capturing a sense of our personal place in history.” In February of 2016 Anette joined Eric Rhoads of PleinAir Magazine, one of 100 artists on a historical trip to Cuba to paint and capture this amazing country before things change. This year Anette was also honored to receive 2 “Best of Show” Awards. One at the Frank Bette Plein Air Event and the other at the Ventura Plein Air Invitational 2016. Anette is a member of CAC, OPA, AIS, LPAPA, SCAPE, BVAA, TAG and The Television Academy and is currently the Program Chair for WVAG
SONJA SCHENK : NEW MOUNTAIN
A new film by Eric Minh Swenson
The works in New Mountain explore the artist’s vision of the future landscape of Los Angeles. Positioned somewhere between dystopian and utopian, the exhibition centers on several large paintings (including the eponymous “New Mountain”) that feature white crystalline formations jutting out of pastel-hued gradients reminiscent of the smog-filtered sunsets of southern California. Often lacking a horizon line and cropped so that all identifying features of the landscape are obscured, “New Mountain” appears to depict, quite literally, the tip of an iceberg. But a closer look reveals that this is neither ice nor stone, at least not as we know it.
Schenk is “interested in figuring out how to paint time itself, to depict past, present, and future in a single painting.” Two diptychs most clearly evoke this desire. “Empire” consists of two uneven panels that appear to suggest both the distant past (the skeleton of a ship, perhaps of the Viking era) and the smoggy skies and unusual radiating lines of what might be the far-off future. It’s an interesting reminder that things that are old now may still exist in the future, older still, long after we are gone. Another diptych titled “Night for Day” hints at Hollywood and film. One panel features a sky-hued gradient and the other is a flat beige, but the focal object, a sort of mountain range made of polystyrene, spans across both panels, suggesting that it perhaps exists in two different times, at once.
The largest work, simply titled “The Mountain,” captures the landscape in the middle of explosive growth, with large white crags erupting out of what might be a “normal” granite mountain. Several smaller paintings and two sculptures round out the exhibition. Schenk explains, “These paintings and sculptures depict something akin to new landmasses or floating islands, something that might occur when the materials, diseases, and other hallmarks of the human race merge with organic elements of the earth to form new entities.” This hint of violence betrays the sublime superficiality and suggests a future world that is not quite natural, not quite serene, not quite inert.
Sonja Schenk is an LA-based multidisciplinary artist. She began with video installation work and has since turned to painting and sculpture. She was recently artist-in-residence at Cerritos College and also created a site-specific installation for the Joshua Treenial, a biennial in the Southern California desert. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California and at Prescott College Art Gallery in Arizona, and she was commissioned to build an outdoor sculpture for Porch Gallery in Ojai, California. She was artist-in-residence at Shasta Whiskeytown National Park and visiting artist at the Thomas McKeon Center for Creativity in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has shown work at the Yokohama Triennial in Japan, the Musée du Papier-Peint in Switzerland, the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Brand Library Art Center in Glendale, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Berkeley Art Center in Northern California. Her work has been featured in Palm Springs Life, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Eastbay Express (Oakland, CA), La Liberté (Fribourg, Switzerland), and the arts journal AEQAI. Sonja’s work is in private and public collections in the United States. She has upcoming solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Show Gallery is an art gallery and artist residency showcasing local and international contemporary artists located in the heart of Hollywood.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at emsartscene.com.
EMS Legacy Films is a continuing series of short films produced by EMS on artists and exhibitions.
His art films can be seen at
Instagram : @ericminhswenson
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
San Francisco: Arts, Culture and Science in Northern California
From art and science museums to unique neighborhoods, San Francisco and Northern California’s vast cultural offerings beckon for your next vacation.
Why I Do Taxidermy
a short video on why i do taxidermy as requested by a young lady named Genesis.
The Architects of Change
Join TV Santa Barbara as they capture two beautiful masterworks by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs. In this segment, the community comes together to learn about Santa Barbara's rich Spanish Colonial architectural history, and put forth an effort to help preserve.
Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Los Angeles
LA downtown MOCA
Ancient Rocks Glyphs of the Chumash + Reawakening the Archaic Human
The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival, by a reversion to archaic values. So when I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to syncopated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary canons of sexual behaviour, I applaud all of this; because it's an impulse to return to what is felt by the body -- what is authentic, what is archaic -- and when you tease apart these archaic impulses, at the very centre of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling.
And at the centre of that impulse is the shaman: stoned, intoxicated on plants, speaking with the spirit helpers, dancing in the moonlight, and vivifying and invoking a world of conscious, living mystery. That's what the world is. The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery: our birth, our death, our being in the moment -- these are mysteries. They are doorways opening on to unimaginable vistas of self-exploration, empowerment and hope for the human enterprise. And our culture has killed that, taken it away from us, made us consumers of shoddy products and shoddier ideals. We have to get away from that; and the way to get away from it is by a return to the authentic experience of the body -- and that means sexually empowering ourselves, and it means getting loaded, exploring the mind as a tool for personal and social transformation. -Terence McKenna
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Diaz, For whom the bell tolls
Juice: Guitar & Vocals (sorry), Reckless: Guitar, Alemirex: Bass, Jaydee: Drums
Polo & Oryx
One of the oldest games around, Polo is actually being played in Baja California. We meet an enthusiastic family who play the game of kings on horseback. Watch as Jorge takes a whack at it in a friendly game. Then we head to Tijuana where we meet chef Ruffo at the Oryx restaurant. We are blown away when his mac n’ cheese dish which takes the trophy.
Haunted Roads in California
Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and more! Some roads in the sunshine state are spookier than they appear. Check out our list of the most haunted roads in California!
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Hidden Chumash Pictographs of California Coast
Somewhere in Conejo Valley, these pictographs drawn by Chumash Indians hundreds of years ago have survived fires, floods, mudslides and vandals. Please
The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol - by John Wilcock
An excerpt from the panel discussion held at the New York Public Library on June 23, 2010.
Cultural historian Dr. Steven Watson moderates a book presentation and panel discussion focused on the new publication, The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, a collection of intimate interviews with Warhol's closest associates, friends and his superstars. John Wilcock, the author of the book, Gretchen Berg, a photojournalist, Brigid Berlin, artist and former Warhol superstar and Taylor Mead, actor and poet, will join Dr. Watson for a revealing conversation about Andy Warhol's life.
19 McKevett Heights, Santa Paula, CA 93060
Welcome to one of the most elegant and interesting historic mansions in Santa Paula. The Duval home was created in 1925 to fulfill the needs of this Senator and founder of the Saticoy Country Club for entertaining and relaxing. State-of-the-art work was commissioned for both elegance and quality; this was California's first earthquake proof home. Leaded glass front door is original. Large windows with elegant treatments and many extras including a dumb waiter assure a unique and comfortable life. The large lot is professionally landscaped and includes a gazebo and koi pond, orchids and roses, and fruit trees. Santa Paula's rich history comes to life on this hillside and inside the home. Nearby is the historic railway station as seen on television and in many films. Historic Main Street is home to many car shows and the Union Oil Museum. Nearby is the Ventura County Museum which spotlights local agriculture and industry, and the famous private Santa Paula Airport.
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Contact: The Fred Evans Team: 805-339-3502
BEATRICE WOOD
VIDEOCERÁMICA # BEATRICE WOOD was born in San Francisco in 1893 and passed away in Ojai, California nine days after her 105th birthday on March 12, 1998. She attributed her longevity to young men and chocolates.
Wood sspent time in Paris during her late teens. Studying art briefly at the Academie Julian, she was soon attracted to the stage and moved to the Comedie Francaise. She returned to the United States in 1914 and joined the French Repertory Theater in New York. While visiting the French composer Edgar Varese in a New York hospital in 1916, she was introduced to Marcel Duchamp. She soon became an intimate friend of the painter and a member of his recherche culturelle clique, which included Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Albert Gleizes, Walt Kuhn, and others. As a contributor to Duchamp's avant-garde magazines, Rogue and the Blindman, she produced drawings and shared editorial space with such luminaries of the day as Gertrude Stein. In 1933, after she purchased a set of six luster plates in Europe, she returned to America and wanted to produce a matching teapot. It was suggested that she make one at the pottery classes of the Hollywood High School. Of course, she would later laugh about that weekend and reminisce about how foolish she was in thinking she could produce a lustre teapot in one weekend. But she was hooked. She began to read everything she could get her hands on concerning ceramics. Around 1938 she studied with Glen Lukens at the USC, and in 1940 with the Austrian potters Gertrud and Otto Natzler. She remembers being the most interested student in [Lukens's] class and certainly the least gifted.... I was not a born craftsman. Many with natural talent do not have to struggle, they ride on easy talent and never soar. But I worked and worked, obsessed with learning. From that time on, Wood developed a personal and uniquely expressive art form with her lusterwares. Her sense of theater is still vividly alive in these works, with their exotic palette of colors and unconventional form. In 1983 the Art Galleries of California State University at Fullerton organized a large retrospective of the artist's sixty-six years of activity as an artist. Remarkably, it was during the artist's nineties that Wood produced some of her finest work including her now signature works, tall complex, multi-volumed chalices in glittering golds, greens, pinks and bronzes. Until shortly before her death she was producing at least two one-woman exhibitions a year and the older she became, the more daring and experimental her work was.
Wood received numerous honors. She was given the Ceramics Symposium Award of the Institute for Ceramic History in 1983 and the outstanding-achievement award of the Women's Caucus for Art in 1987, the year she was made a fellow of both the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and the American Craft Council which also gave her the gold medal on her 100th birthday. She also received the Governor's Award for Art in 1994, and was made a living treasure of California by the state in 1984. Wood took part in hundreds of exhibitions both solo and group since the 1930's ranging from small craft shows, to showing on the Venice Biennale. From 1981 until her death, she was represented by the Garth Clark Gallery. In 1990, her close friend and art historian Francis Naumann organized a major retrospective of her figurative work which appeared at the Oakland Museum and The Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. In 1997 the American Craft Museum organized Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute, a touring exhibition. In 1985 Wood published her autobiography, I Shock Myself . She continued to write, publishing many books. In 1993 she was the subject of an award winning film Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada by Lone Wolf Productions.
Beatrice Wood continued to throw on the wheel until June, 1997. She achieved some of her best lustre works in the 90s. Her last figurative work, Men With Their Wives was completed in December 1996 and is currently in a private collection in California.