Celebrating COMPANY by Amy Thielen
You’re invited to join James Beard award winning cookbook author and chef Amy Thielen, friend of the foundation, on the occaision of her new book COMPANY: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others, for a conversationwith Frederick Janka, Executive Director at Bart’s Books in Ojai, on Saturday, September 23, 2023, at 6:30 pm.
Nora Garza: Embracing the Absurd
On view September 9 – October 10, 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Nora Garza. The exhibition Embracing the Absurd will be on view September 9 – October 10, 2023 as part of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation’s Ojai Institute initiative. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. The artist will be present, and all are welcome to attend.
Embracing the Absurd merges the artist’s long standing fascination with the subjects of archaeology, ancient history, biblical studies, and ufology. From a young age, and with a Catholic upbringing, she was captivated by such happenings as the search for Noah’s Ark, the Shroud of Turin, the Virgin Mary of Medjugorje, Virgin of Fatima, and her apparitions. She eventually began to read and start her research into events surrounding paranormal and unexplained phenomena such as alien encounters, both ancient and contemporary.
In the artist’s own words:
In my paintings, I leave behind a historical record from a common person’s perspective concerning the constant revelation of aliens. Up to today, the alien craft that hover over our countries have shown to be much more advanced than our aircraft and our technology. As Time passes, more and more encounters between humans and aliens occur…I am excited at the prospect of interacting more with aliens and hopefully they will be willing to bring us up to par with them in their knowledge of technology and there might be hundreds of other types of knowledge and perspectives that they would want to share with us. l am excited, and my mind is in awe. I feel so lucky to live to see this new alien revelation.
Works in the exhibition have been organized into four chapters: Messages, Interactions, Real Life Contacts, and Future of Humanity. Overall this exhibition of twelve acrylic paintings on canvas presents images of real life experiences, and those imagined by the artist based on press accounts, historical events, and other encounters.
Nora Garza is originally from the border region of Northern Mexico and Southern Texas, and now lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her MA in Education from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and had a long career as a public education teacher, school principal and museum educator. After retiring, Garza taught art classes for eight years at the Brownsville Museum of Art and dedicated herself full-time to painting and drawing. In addition to her art practice, she regularly attends museum exhibitions and engages with other artists in her community.
Image: Nora Garza, Personal Sedona UFO Tour, 2022. Courtesy The Artist.
Queer Art Pop Up Exhibition and Poetry Reading:
Ren D’Angelo, Adi DeClerk, Hope Fairbanks, Maya Leeloo Rohe, and Sieren Ureño Clayton
August 5-6, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Support Local Queer Artists! Pop up Art Exhibition August 5th!
The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation and Ojai Institute proudly present a Queer Art Pop Up Exhibition and Poetry Reading showcasing emerging Ojai artists! Please join us at 248 South Montgomery St. in Downtown Ojai, August 5th at 4-7pm to celebrate the work of Noah Cannaday, Ren D’Angelo, Adi DeClerk, Hope Fairbanks, Maya Leeloo Rohe, and Sieren Ureño Clayton. This pop up show will be open to the public Saturday, August 5th at the opening reception from 4-7pm and Sunday, August 6th from 12-4pm.This exhibition has been curated by Sieren Ureño Clayton as the culmination of his summer Artist Fellowship with the foundation.
Clayton says “This exhibition was created to be a safe space to center and celebrate queer artists in Ojai. Each artist was given the freedom to choose the pieces that they feel represent them most as artists and as people. My hope with this show is to create a space for people to make meaningful connections within the queer and art communities as well as celebrate the wonderful artists showcasing their work…Community is integral in the lives of all queer people and it is something that I would like to foster in Ojai; for the many generations of queer people who, like myself, wanted to have more of a community growing up and for the new generation of queer youth who I hope will feel like they have more community than those before them.”
Come support these five, wonderful queer Ojai artists!
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation
Bart’s Books
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
invite you to celebrate artist Sara Woster and her new book!
Friday, April 14:
Artist Dinner
Private Residence, Ojai
Are you a member?
Saturday, April 15:
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Painting Club Workshop
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation
248 S. Montgomery, Ojai
$150 per person, includes a copy of the book and lunch
6:00 pm
Author in Conversation
Bart’s Books
302 W Matilija St, Ojai
Free
Sunday, April 16:
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Book Signing
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace
Santa Barbara
Free
For more information and to register please contact: Frederick Janka [email protected]
ABOUT PAINTING CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE
Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives.
Sara Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and an outlet for self-expression. In Painting Can Save Your Life, Woster welcomes readers into this transformative art form, inviting them to pick up a brush and discover how painting can help you see the world in a whole new way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Painter and art teacher Sara Woster founded The Painting School in an effort to share her passion for painting with her community. Woster shows her work in the United States and internationally, in solo shows and group exhibits. She illustrated several children’s books, and her animations, multimedia, and collaborative performances have been shown at numerous art venues including the Hammer Museum, UCLA, and Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. She has been granted a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Franconia Sculpture Park residency, and a Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA residency. Woster also has a creative writing degree from The New School. She has contributed personal essays to several anthologies and has written two middle-grade books. Woster and her husband, Rob Fischer, established artist residencies in northern Minnesota and the Bleakley House in New York. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala Celebrating
Janna Ireland
Cameron Patricia Downey
Saturday, May 20, 2022
Ojai, California
Reception: 2:00 pm | Luncheon & Award Ceremony: 3:00 pm
(left) Janna Ireland, portrait by Carlos Jaramillo (right) Cameron Patricia Downey
The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 awards. The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize will be awarded to Janna Ireland. The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize will be awarded to Cameron Patricia Downey.
Downey will present a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) opening September 17, 2023. This will be their debut institutional exhibition. Their collaborative video work Hymn of Dust, with Ize Commers, M Jamison, Cooper Felien, will have its West Coast debut January 22 – March 29, 2023 also at MCASB.
Both artists will be feted at the annual Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Annual Art Prize Gala on May 20, 2023. Tickets and tables will be available shortly. Save the date for the Art Prize Gala Weekend, May 19-21, 2023.
The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize consists of an unrestricted gift of $10,000. Previous prize recipients include Sarah Rosalena Brady (2022), Porfirio Gutiérrez (2021), Tanya Aguiñiga (2020), Kelly Akashi (2019), Ry Rocklen (2018), and Rob Fischer (2017). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Southern California.
The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize consists of an unrestricted gift of $5,000. Previous prize recipients include Aaron Spangler (2022) Jovan C. Speller (2021), and Dyani White Hawk (2020). The prize is awarded on an annual basis and the current focus is on supporting artists living in Minnesota.
Artist Biographies:
Janna Ireland lives in Los Angeles, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College. Her photographic work is primarily concerned with the themes of family, home, and the expression of Black identity in American culture. In 2016, she began photographing structures designed by legendary Black architect Paul R. Williams. A collection of 250 of these photographs was published in a monograph entitled Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View, in 2020. In 2021, Ireland was awarded a Peter E. Pool Research Fellowship by the Nevada Museum of Art to photograph Williams’ work in Nevada. A solo exhibition of this work opened at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2022 and traveled to the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas, where it will be on view until May 30, 2023.
A broad selection of Ireland’s work was included in the exhibition “Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Charles White Elementary School Gallery. Ireland’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of institutions including LACMA, the Nevada Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been the subject of articles in publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harvard Design Magazine, and Aperture. She holds an MFA from the UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU.
Cameron Patricia Downey (b. 1998) is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation and otherwise — seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious, the misremembered and the banal. Their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation.
Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Downey’s art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS in: HAIR+NAILS at 9 Herkimer (Brooklyn, 2019), FUTURE FUTURE (2020), “The Human Scale” at Rochester Art Center (2021), and in their first solo show “Three Things Last Forever” (2020). Downey will present their next solo show of new work at HAIR+NAILS in spring 2023 as well as at Midway Contemporary Art in fall of 2023. Downey guest curated HOLDING SPACE, an exhibition of video, image, light and sound, in the H+N front yard (summer 2020). Downey’s recent exhibitions and screenings have included those at the Walker Art Center (2022), “Wild Frictions” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin (2021), “Intersections” at Engage Projects in Chicago (2021–2022) and “In The River” as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program (2022). Downey is currently an artist in residence at the Walker Art Center’s mediatheque and at Second Shift Studio Space of St. Paul.
(left) Sarah Rosalena (right) Aaron Spangler
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala
Celebrating Sarah Rosalena & Aaron Spangler
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Ojai, California
Reception: 2:00 pm | Al Fresco Luncheon & Award Program: 3:00 pm
Proceeds benefit Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation artist and free art programs
Art Prize Gala Weekend Starts Friday, May 20, 2022 with the opening reception for Fragile/Fiber a fundraising exhibition, and the Artists’ Dinner
All ticket and table levels include reception, luncheon & award program
Join us for a short symposium exploring the book Thought Forms and related ideas around consciousness and the history of Ojai with Rosha Yaghmai and invited special guests. You are encouraged to read along with us these next few weeks and arrive ready to discuss the book on May 7th. Books may be purchased locally at Barts Books, or at your local bookstore.
The symposium will conclude with a closing reception for the exhibition.
Please note time change to 3:00 pm.
On Heidi Bucher
Saturday, April 23, 5:00 pm
Join us for a conversation with Rosha Yaghmai as we discuss her interest in the work of Heidi Bucher. The Swiss avant-garde artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993, born Adelheid Hildegard Müller) distinguished herself particularly through her legendary “mouldings”, focussing and exploring the architectural space and the body through sculpture. It is a transformative and poetic work, that deals primarily with private spaces and belongings, architectural fragments from mostly the 19th century, feminism, domestication and the individual or collective experiences and memory.
We will be referencing the Heidi Bucher symposium produced by Haus der Kunst on the occasion of the retrospective Heidi Bucher. Metamorphoses with The Estate of Heidi Bucher. Watch the previously recorded symposium online.
In Conversation: Jovan C. Speller and Dyani White Hawk
Friday, February 25, 2022, 5:00pm PST
On the occasion of our current exhibition Jovan C. Speller: Sounds for Survival for the Ojai Institute, this virtual event, In Conversation, will feature Jovan C. Speller and Dyani White Hawk. Jovan is the 2021 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize recipient, and Dyani received the prize in 2020.
This event will take place on zoom, will have live closed captions, and will be recorded.
