“Ojai Visions” Exhibition

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts is pleased to present Ojai Visions, an exhibition featuring artist-members of Ojai Studio Artists. There will be an Opening Reception for the exhibition on Saturday, January 22nd from 2 – 4 pm and the public is invited to attend.

Ojai Visions is an event that partners two Ojai-based non-profit organizations that promote the arts and education.

Ojai Studio Artists is a nonprofit community educational organization, working to promote art awareness, preparing the next generation of artists, and celebrating the importance of the arts within the region. To date, OSA has given more than $200,000 in art scholarships. It also purchases art books for local libraries, partners with schools in teaching classes and mentoring students, supports public art projects and other community programs.

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts is an activity of the Happy Valley Foundation, committed to maintaining an educational center that nurtures spiritual, artistic and intellectual growth as well as physical and mental well-being. In creating the foundation in 1927, Dr. Annie Besant shared a vision that included a school and an art center. The foundation created the school in the 1940s in lower Ojai, moving to the Happy Valley Foundation land in the early 1970s, at the same time that Beatrice Wood was invited to build her home on the land, to become the art center. Today the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley and the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts carry on Dr. Besant’s vision.

Ojai Visions is installed in the Center’s Beato Gallery and Logan Gallery and continues through February 26th.

Images attached: Mariana Peirano Royuela, Kaqinaš xo’ni šup, 2021, Oil on canvas, 12″ h x 12″ w, $1800. (Kaqinaš xo’ni šup translates to Thank you Mother Earth in the Chumash language.)