Opens January 17.  Portraiture is the the focus of OVM's first exhibition of 2015.  Twenty-one original portraits were selected by Museum Director, Michele Ellis Pracy.  The artworks, borrowed from local collections, represent Ojai personages important to the history, art and culture of Ojai and the Ojai Valley over the past century.

Ojai persons of merit include: Sherman Thacher, Peter Bellwood, Otto and Vivka Heino, Krishnamurti, and Sergio Aragones among others. Artists of these intriguing portraits include John Nava, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Marc Whitman and Alice Matzkin.  The History of Portraiture is presented through educational wall texts.

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Opens January 17.  Movement along several East-West trending faults over the last 10 to 15 million years created the beautiful geologic features of the Ojai Valley.  Explore the valley's unique geography with its folds, faults and twists via a three-dimensional topographical map hand-built by Ojai resident, Richard Dodd.  Wall text written by retired geologist, Don Scanlin, adds to this mini-science exhibit in the Alcove Gallery.

The art of cartography (map making) is also featured. 

Join us at the Museum as TOWN TALKS coordinator, Mark Lewis, chats with Phil about his extraordinary career in the arts, much of which has taken place here in Ojai.  Phil has been by turns a stage actor, a movie and TV actor (he appeared in the classic film "Touch of Evil," directed by Orson Welles), an opera and light opera singer, a painter, and a distinguished photographer.

Founder of the Ojai Camera Club (now the Ojai Photography Club) and the Ojai Community Chorus, Phil remains an active member of the arts community.  He was honored as a Living Treasure by the Rotary Clubs of Ojai in 2010 and has a treasure chest full of stories to share.