This was the 25th Anniversary Season of Opera Santa Barbara when members of OSB’s Chrisman Studio Artist Residency Program performed selections from Puccini’s La Boheme at the Wildling Musuem.
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Photographers were encouraged to capture examples of nature’s magical ability to regenerate and thrive. All the images from both the adult and junior categories were exhibited together, on the second floor, in our Valley Oak Gallery from August 4th 2018 through November 5th 2018.
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The art of natural perfumery was explored in a 3-hour workshop with Susan Farber of Sol Aromatics. There were two dates: Saturday, September 15 and September 22 2018 from 1 pm to 4 pm. Students learned how to formulate their very own fragrance with botanical essences gathered from around the world.
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Through art we embrace and even become nature; we connect to natural roots of being that make us remember that we are part of nature as well as part of culture. Susan Rowland’s talk used depth psychology and alchemy to show what modern western life has forgotten, ignored or repressed, that the imagination is the most important natural resource, one that connects us to non-human nature as an essential part of our being.
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In this class, participants created a colorful gourd bowl with a seagrass or a vine rim. Several other rim finishes such as jute, grapevine and other natural materials were shared with the students. Class was suitable for any level of experience with techniques and/or materials. Students were furnished with an approximate 6 - 7 inch diameter gourd.
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Nature Imagined was a special exhibition that celebrated nature through the vivid imaginations of Cheryl Medow, Ellen Jewett, and Hilary Brace. Inspired by nature, these artists use diverse materials and methods to create environments that engage the imagination. The viewer was invited to look into the details of their artwork and explore the unique weaving of image, texture, and pattern that resembles nature and yet is unlike anything in the natural world.
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The Noontime Concert at the Wildling Museum in Solvang on January 23, will feature the Chrisman Studio Artists: Ashley Kay Armstrong, Yazid Gray, Michael Kollmorgen, and Jennifer Lindsay.
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Three artists shared their unique artistic perspectives of bird species that can be found in the tri-county region (Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Louis Obispo). Jim Hodgson, René C. Reyes, and George Lockwood shared artworks of their tributes to our local feathered friends. During the exhibition, there were birding lectures and excursions to expand the viewer’s knowledge of local birds. Santa Barbara County and the overall region is renowned for bird species diversity and is a hotspot for birders with the central coast a stop along the migratory Pacific Flyway.
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