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Activate Your Creative Holiday Spirit!
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Greetings!
We're on the brink of seasonal parties and reveling, sharing great times with friends and loved ones. BAA's family of wonderful artists invites you to celebrate the season with exhibits at both galleries and at Community Memorial Hospital. Activate your own creative spirit at two BAA sponsored art-making workshops and channel your inner Santa with Laughter Yoga. Design and enter your own holiday ornament in our ornament competition, a fundraiser for FoodShare of Ventura County. Honor the history of Ventura by purchasing "Roots Ventura", our 2011 Fine Art Calendar highlighting the legacy of E.P. Foster.
For more information on these and future events, please visit our website at buenaventuragallery.org.
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 Let Them (and us) Eat Cake!!
Buenaventura Gallery turns 20 years old!
We moved to 700 E. Santa Clara St. in October, 1990.
Join us for cake on November 5 from 5-8 pm
Meet Kathy Ikerd, featured solo artist
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AT THE BUENAVENTURA GALLERY
700 East Santa Clara Street
Ventura, CA 805/648-1235
Thru November 9 ...
 Kathy Ikerd
Thru Nov. 6, 2010
Meet the Artist Nov. 5, 5-8 pm
"First Friday"
Welcome to the party! Kathy Ikerd's Garden Party celebrates her most recent works. Keeping true to her respect for nature and its colorful palate, her show invites you see how a recent visit to a local seed company grew into a stunning arrangement of art works. Ikerd conducts a conversation with her brush work which is bold, spontaneous and deliberate. (Click here for more.)  2nd Annual Watercolor and Aqua Media Open CompetitionIn Partnership with The California
Gold Coast Watercolor Society
Thru November 6(Image right: First place award in Aqua Media by Nina Bobrova)
Click here for a virtual tour of the Exhibit.
Gail Pidduck
"A Place in the Choir"November 9 - December 4Opening ReceptionSat. Nov. 13, 4-7 pm
Inspired by a folk song of the 1970s by Bill Staines "A Place in the Choir," creatures of the farm and home snuggle, squawk, waddle, bark and purr themselves into Pidduck's oil paintings. With a ruralist focus on the countryside, away from horns beeping and a hum of modernity, Pidduck has created a collection of new works with fauna as her theme. The local flora and agricultural community are a consistent thread in Pidduck's well known works and life on the farm continues to be honored in her "A Place in the Choir".
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AT THE HARBOR VILLAGE GALLERY
1591 Spinnaker Drive
Ventura Harbor Village (next to the big lawn)
Ventura, CA 805/644-2750
 Dorothea Heger
"Universal Whispers"
Thru November 29
"If I just close my eyes slowly, and synchronize my breathing, perhaps I will know the sacred stillness of nature's holy rhythm and universal being." L. Angeli
Poetry Reading by Louisa Angeli
Sat., Nov. 13 at 3 pm
Rhythmic paintings enlighten the soul throughout Dorothea Heger's exhibit of original semi-abstract paintings. She paints with spontaneous colors and expressions, reflecting on universal moments, ideas, and themes. She works in bright colored inks, acrylics, watercolors and collage on rice paper or illustration board. Poetry by Louisa Angeli inspired most of Heger's paintings of over a dozen of new works in the exhibit. (Click here for more.)
 "Art Night in the Harbor"
Wednesday, November 17, 5 - 8pm
Ventura Harbor Village
Celebrating many local artists who exhibit, sell and create in the Ventura Harbor area. Meet the artists, check out the art work and try to catch a few creations in the making at each of the participating locations which will be open until 8pm.
At the Harbor Village Gallery's Artisan Store
 Featured Artisan: Nancy Hodge
Cowgirl Artist Nancy Hodge creates paintings of horses, western women, Amercian Indians and yes, cats using a variety of materials and mediums including watercolors, acrylics, collage and inks to convey her images. The Artisan Store will showcase her work as prints, cards and various collectible items.
PET PORTRAITS by Linda Cowell, Mary-Jo Murphy, Norman Kirk and Pamela Salem Click here for more information.
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AT COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Main Lobby and First Floor Corridors
147 N. Brent Street, Ventura, CA
 Now Showing Thru December 4 "Healing Arts"
Coming Soon
Featuring the works of over 50 local artists.
Art in the Community!
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TWO SPECIAL EVENTS OF THE SEASON
 2011 Fine Art Calendar
Honor our local history by purchasing
"Roots Ventura"
$15 each (available Nov. 9)
Enjoy beautiful original art every month in 2011 as our artists honor E.P. Foster's contribution to our city with works depicting some of his achievements and favorite places. Available at our galleries or purchase online at buenaventuragallery.org.
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 "Get the Ball Rolling"
3rd Annual Holiday Ornament Competition
Pick up a ball at the Harbor Village Gallery starting Oct. 9. Entries due from 11/15-12/2.
Prizes Awarded on December 3
Prizes for both adult and youth categories.
Proceeds from sales will be donated to FoodShare of Ventura County.
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Workshops and Classes Sponsored by BAA
Creative Wearable Art
for the Holidays Instructor: Debby Sutton Saturday, November 6, 9-noon Harbor Village Gallery
Debby Sutton will teach the elements of creative wire wrapping for a piece of your choosing, ring, bracelet or pendent. Instructor will provide written instructions and pattern, polishing cloth and sanding block and her expert knowledge of the craft of jewelry making. Please bring your own tools, beads and wire. Materials will be available for purchase on the day of the workshop for a nominal price.
Cost is $30 for Buenaventura Art Association (BAA) members, $36 for non-BAA members. (See link below for registration and payment.)
 Let's Paint Again!Instructor: Susan SeaberryDecember 4 & 5, 1:00 to 4:00pmVentura High School Art Room #20(on Poli St. behind the High School.)The workshop continues the series begun in October and will focus on the figure with a live model and still life set ups for the ultimate in color study on both days. Participants are requested to focus on oil, acrylic or charcoal mediums. Attendance to both sessions highly recommended. All levels of experience accepted. Space is limited. There will be no refunds for cancellations one week prior to the workshop. Supply list available upon request and on BAA's website. $95 for Buenaventura Art Association (BAA) members,$115 for non-members.
Laughter Yoga Instructor: Joan Woodward Tuesday, Dec. 7, 10-11 am at the Buenaventura Gallery
Laughter Yoga combines unconditional laughter with pranayama (yogic breathing). It's Fun. It's Easy! When you laugh, your brain releases serotonin, dopamine and endorphins. It also relieves anxiety and stress and can even lower blood pressure. The oxygen moving through the body allows for a clearer mind and brighter mood. The exercises are not as important as the spirit of playfulness you bring to them. Learn to live your life with greater playfulness and fun. Group size: 6-12 people. Cost: TBD
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GALLERY HOURS AND LOCATIONS
Buenaventura Gallery, 700 Santa Clara Street, Ventura CA
Open Tue-Fri, Noon-5 pm. Sat 11-5 pm, , 805-648-1235
Harbor Village Gallery, 1591 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura Harbor Village
Open Wed-Mon 12-5 pm. 805-644-2750
"Sketches" is published by the Buenaventura Art Association.
Visit our website at buenaventuragallery.org.(805) 648-1235. email: info@buenaventuragallery.org.
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