The Ojai Art Center (OAC) has eight branches -- each offering their featured performances and events -- and hosts a series of classes and special events such as Art in the Park and The Blues Festival. Our mission, since we opened our doors in 1939, has been to support and advance the interest of the arts within our community.
Please feel free to come down and enjoy all we have to offer. We encourage you to consider becoming a member which will bring you the satisfaction of supporting the arts on a local level as well as providing you discounts on theatre productions, discounts on activity fees, art purchases, events and our monthly newsletter.
Please feel free to come down and enjoy all we have to offer. We encourage you to consider becoming a member which will bring you the satisfaction of supporting the arts on a local level as well as providing you discounts on theatre productions, discounts on activity fees, art purchases, events and our monthly newsletter.
June Events
|
"Restoration"
June 5th - June 30th |
"Beato and Babitz"
|
|
Steve Adams, chair of our photography branch, is organizing a photo exhibit called Restoration. This show will celebrate a return to normalcy with a reminder of what we have been through and what we are looking forward to. We are wanting to display images of losses and gains, sickness and recovery, despair and joy.
The showcases will display the three dimensional work of Drew Lurie, Gayle Swanson (artwork pictured below), and Genie Thomsen. |
Our Literary Branch chair, Mark Lewis, will host “Beato and Babitz,” a conversation with Kevin Wallace, director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, and Mark and Kevin will reveal all. Or almost as much as Eve reveals in this photograph. More info.
The iconic 1963 photo below by Paul Wasser shows the teenage Eve Babitz playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. |
|
|
Theatre
Tom Eubanks has done just about everything in the theater – acting, directing, producing, writing. He returns to direct the drama, Family Furniture, by A.R. Gurney.
Amid the gin and tonics, vichyssoise and tennis double of Buffalo’s summer scene, siblings Nick and Peggy must confront their mother’s possible infidelity, their father’s apparent indifference, and their own increasingly complicated lives. Family Furniture is a coming of age tale of one summer when everything shifts.
Eubanks has cast a talented group of actors – Benjamin Wilson, Buddy Wilds, Kisea Kattika, Ashley Osler and Amber Shea Hodge. Stage manager is Christine Columbo, costumes by Sheryl Jo Bedal, produced by Bill Spellman.
Family Furniture opens June 25 and plays through July 18. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
To purchase tickets online, click here. For reservations, please call 805-640-8797.
Amid the gin and tonics, vichyssoise and tennis double of Buffalo’s summer scene, siblings Nick and Peggy must confront their mother’s possible infidelity, their father’s apparent indifference, and their own increasingly complicated lives. Family Furniture is a coming of age tale of one summer when everything shifts.
Eubanks has cast a talented group of actors – Benjamin Wilson, Buddy Wilds, Kisea Kattika, Ashley Osler and Amber Shea Hodge. Stage manager is Christine Columbo, costumes by Sheryl Jo Bedal, produced by Bill Spellman.
Family Furniture opens June 25 and plays through July 18. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
To purchase tickets online, click here. For reservations, please call 805-640-8797.
Become an Art Center Member
Become an Art Center Member and support the arts in Ojai:
- Individual Membership: $50
- Family Membership: $65 (Family membership includes 2 children under 18 years of age.)
- Student Membership: $30
- Senior Membership: $35
- Business Membership: $275 (Includes 4 individual memberships, events listed on OAC site, monthly newsletter link, social media support, facilities rental discounts, marketing materials distributed at Art in the park and OAC calendar.)