Work by colleagues & former students of Carlisle Cooper, William McEnroe, Norman Kirk and Gerd Koch will honor these four master artists and legends, in an exhibit in the Museum of Ventura County’s Martin V. & Martha K. Smith Pavilion, on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10, from 11 am- 4 pm. In addition to the exhibition, there will also be painting demonstrations in the museum plaza by Norman Kirk, Debi Nowak-Hawkes, Rex Kochel and Annette Hammer. Admission is free for museum members, $5 for the general public, and includes entry to the entire museum. To attend call 653-0323 x 315.

Artists invited to exhibit include Cathy Day Barroca, Paul Benavidez, Richard Byron, Julie Dahl-Nicolle, Pat Richards Dodds, Richard Franklin, Donna Granata, Annette Hammer, Edward Hudson, Maggie Kildee, Rex Kochel, Jonny Kwan, Rita McBride, Debra McKillop, Carole Milton, Bob Moskowitz, Mona Newhouse, Debi Nowak-Hawkes, Bob Privitt, HirokoYoshimoto, and Jay Yoshimoto.

The two-day exhibition compliments Four Masters- Four Legends, the museum’s current retrospective of paintings by Cooper, Kirk, Koch and McEnroe, four of Ventura County's most influential painters. All were involved in the seminal development of Ventura County arts organizations, and in the Ventura College Art Department, where they taught and nurtured generations of artists from the 1950s to today. The Four Masters- Four Legends exhibition ends April 24.

The Museum of Ventura County is located at 100 East Main Street in downtown Ventura, California. Open from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, admission is $4 adults, $3 seniors, $1 children 6-17, free for members and children under 6. For more museum information go to www.venturamuseum.org or call 805-653-0323.