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Art Night At The Ventura Harbor, Celebrate Over 100 Years Of Local Artists
 BAA Honorary Life Time member Norm Kirk and his Trash to Treasure creation. By Anonymous — Monday, August 2nd, 2010
 Local artists creating a mural in the Ventura Harbor Village in 2009. Thursday August 19 from 5 – 8pm the Ventura Harbor Village will be celebrating many local artists who exhibit, sell and create in the Ventura Harbor area. Two of the oldest and most well known arts organizations have locations in the Ventura Harbor Village. The Buenaventura Art Association (BAA) is a co-op organization of visual artists dedicated to exhibiting and selling local art work since 1954. The Ventura County Potters Guild, formed in 1957, promotes the art and craft of ceramics and provides a forum for local potters to share their experiences and knowledge of clay. Combined, these two groups bring over 100 years of celebrating the arts in the region and both can be found at the Ventura Harbor Village. The BAA has operated an art space for just over 4 years at the north end of the Village next to the Big Lawn. The Harbor Village Gallery and Artisan Store rotates group shows featuring some of their 200 members, solo artist’s exhibits as well as a museum style gift shop which proves to be successful with its affordable one of a kind locally made crafts, cards, prints and jewelry. In building 1567 in Suite 105, near the Village’s Carousel, the Potters’ Guild is currently exhibiting the works of 14 of their150 members and are showcasing varied styles of firing methods of potter and ceramic sculpture. The Potters’ Guild will give demonstrations at their temporary new store front and are excited to be a part of the attractions and shopping destinations the Ventura Harbor Village offers it’s visitors. The Village offers more local artists around every corner. Newly opened Cory Tile Art, offers ready made photographic tiles for sale as well as custom pieces with a picture of you in your favorite harbor scene. The Davey Miller Gallery features Miller’s large scale hyper-realism and abstract paintings as well as a handful of local artist works. At The Mail Buoy and Coffee Shop you’ll find seaglass creations and paintings by DeFussi, light hearted ceramics by Candy, art cards by Rich Wilborn and even a Michellino mosaic. Michellino’s public mosaics are found through out the Village from her residency in the village. Meet the artists, check out the art work and try to catch a few creations in the making at each of these participating locations who will be open until 8pm in the Ventura Harbor Village for Art Night in the Harbor. |
