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02/22/2007
Paris Comes to Ventura
"A Night
at the Moulin Rouge" will feature live jazz, dancing
and cabaret performances as the artwork of the 12 “local
masters” is auctioned off to benefit the Ventura
Music Festival at their annual dinner auction, March
31st.
Impressions – Paris in the 1800’s. The
cultural capital of the world. A hot bed of legendary
art, writing, and music. This year the Ventura Music
Festival’s 2007 theme is Impressions – A
Celebration of French Music and Art.
Twelve local artists were chosen and commissioned
to create works from their interpretation of this
elegant era and 2007 Festival theme. On March 31,
The Ventura Music Festival will host an exciting
Live auction featuring the commissioned Festival
works from the 12 local artists/masters. The auction
of Festival Artworks will provide a lifetime opportunity
for guests to bid on and win one or more of the highly
collectible one-of-a-kind pieces created using photography,
sculpture, drawing and painting.
The artist’s highly personal interpretations
of the French era, when visual arts of the time captured
emotional moments and spawned a revolution in Impressionist
painters such as Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Cezanne
and Degas, have attributed to the expression of these
modern day works and compliment the Festival’s
theme.
Did the 12 local artists/masters bring alive Impressionism
in 2007? The traveling exhibit has its final showing
prior to the art auction at the Thousand Oaks Civic
Arts Plaza from March 7 – 29. An artist reception
is scheduled for March 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the
Founders Room. Call the Festival offices for additional
information.
This year’s local artists are: Whitney Abbott,
Paul Benavidez, Anna Rios Bermudez, Michele Chapin,
Hilda Kilpatrick, Gerd Koch, Elana Kundell, Dan LaVigne,
Leslie McQuaide, Bob Moskowitz, Len Poteshman and
David Rivas.
For additional information or questions, please contact
Denise Bean-White at CMS Info Services, (805)
983-3495 x111 or the Ventura Music Festival Office
at (805) 648-3146. Additional photos of art and artists
are available upon request.
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