In response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak...The Ojai Art Center will be closed until further notice. Unfortunately all related classes and events are postponed. As soon as possible, we will re-evaluate the status of the Art Center and its events and classes based on public safety as well as local regulations and CDC recommendations.
We thank you for your understanding and hope everyone remains safe in this time of crisis.
We thank you for your understanding and hope everyone remains safe in this time of crisis.
Dear Art Center Members and Supporters:
On behalf of the Art Center’s Board of Trustees, I hope you are all well. We, like much of our community, have been in lockdown since mid-March, with the end… who knows.
We have been pretty fortunate here in the Ojai Valley; the number of people who have had the virus is relatively small and we have had few (but too many) CV-19 deaths. Nonetheless, we all obviously have been deeply affected by this situation.
We are also pretty fortunate here at the Art Center. We ended 2019 with several hundred people celebrating our 80thbirthday in November, and our final show of our 2019 theater season, Seussical The Musical, was a roaring success. We opened our 2020 season with sold out performances of Shirley Valentine, starring Anna Kotula. The good times came to an end when, a week before the scheduled March 20 opening, we put our production of Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spikeon hold. A few days later, we closed our doors.
It seemed like we would be able to open our gallery at the end of June, and we did a thorough cleaning, obtained the necessary signs, hand sanitizers, and the like…and then we had to close before we re-opened. We remain hopeful of being able to welcome visitors to our gallery sometime this year, but activities with more than a few people at a time are unlikely to resume until sometime in 2021.
Since March, we had to cancel our major fund-raisers, including Art in the Park, The Ojai Blues Festival, and the Great Art Theft, in addition to money-generating branch activities and rentals.
We are aware that some of you have taken a big financial hit as a result of the Coronavirus; we are also aware that pretty much every arts organization and other not-for-profit community organization has reached out to our community for financial assistance.
So, if you are able to do so, please make a donation to help us get through these difficult times. Simply click here to do so. If you prefer, sending a check to us at P.O. Box 331, Ojai, CA. 93024, this is of course also welcome.
Thank you so much for your support of the Ojai Art Center,
Len Klaif
President Board of Trustees
On behalf of the Art Center’s Board of Trustees, I hope you are all well. We, like much of our community, have been in lockdown since mid-March, with the end… who knows.
We have been pretty fortunate here in the Ojai Valley; the number of people who have had the virus is relatively small and we have had few (but too many) CV-19 deaths. Nonetheless, we all obviously have been deeply affected by this situation.
We are also pretty fortunate here at the Art Center. We ended 2019 with several hundred people celebrating our 80thbirthday in November, and our final show of our 2019 theater season, Seussical The Musical, was a roaring success. We opened our 2020 season with sold out performances of Shirley Valentine, starring Anna Kotula. The good times came to an end when, a week before the scheduled March 20 opening, we put our production of Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spikeon hold. A few days later, we closed our doors.
It seemed like we would be able to open our gallery at the end of June, and we did a thorough cleaning, obtained the necessary signs, hand sanitizers, and the like…and then we had to close before we re-opened. We remain hopeful of being able to welcome visitors to our gallery sometime this year, but activities with more than a few people at a time are unlikely to resume until sometime in 2021.
Since March, we had to cancel our major fund-raisers, including Art in the Park, The Ojai Blues Festival, and the Great Art Theft, in addition to money-generating branch activities and rentals.
We are aware that some of you have taken a big financial hit as a result of the Coronavirus; we are also aware that pretty much every arts organization and other not-for-profit community organization has reached out to our community for financial assistance.
So, if you are able to do so, please make a donation to help us get through these difficult times. Simply click here to do so. If you prefer, sending a check to us at P.O. Box 331, Ojai, CA. 93024, this is of course also welcome.
Thank you so much for your support of the Ojai Art Center,
Len Klaif
President Board of Trustees
Youth Branch
OACT Youth Branch presents “Frozen, Kids”
Over the summer, 12 young actors joined Director Gai Jones, Kayleigh Turner, Vocal Director, and Sophie Massey, Choreographer who coached the kids in song and dance virtually.
The kids and crew worked really hard with everyone learning many new skills. We can not sell tickets for the final performance but we can accept donations to our program.
Please consider donating, even a small gift is helpful in covering production costs, such as costumes, props, royalties, staffing, etc.
The kids and crew worked really hard with everyone learning many new skills. We can not sell tickets for the final performance but we can accept donations to our program.
Please consider donating, even a small gift is helpful in covering production costs, such as costumes, props, royalties, staffing, etc.
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.
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.)