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SUPPORT FOR PIONEERING ARTS INITIATIVES, ARTS EDUCATION, WITH NEW GENERATIONS OF SOUTHLAND ARTISTS AND THINKERS. THE STUDY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL ART, HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS, NON-PARTISAN AND RELATED TO CIVIC INTEREST AND MATTERS BENEFICIAL TO COMMUNITY WELFARE. THE OPERATIONAL MISSION INCLUDES PROGRAMS OF PUBLIC LECTURES, CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS, READINGS AND SYMPOSIA ON ISSUES OF PUBLIC INTEREST; NETWORKING AND PURSUING COMMON PROJECTS WITH OTHER COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SOUTHLAND; NETWORKING AND PURSUING COMMON PROJECTS WITH AND PROVIDING A PUBLIC FORUM FOR HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SOUTHLAND.

24 EVENTS: LECTURES, CONCERT, FILM & PHOTO EXHIBITRUSKIN ART CLUB EVENTS: FISCAL 2020-XXX-XX-XXXX.THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 / 7-8:30PMVIRTUAL FIELD TRIP TO THE STUDIO OF W. PATRICK EDWARDSA TRADITIONAL FURNITURE CONSERVATOR, RESTORER, AND MAKER DISCUSSES HIS LIFE EXPERIENCES AND HIS PHILOSOPHY OF WORK. ALL THE WORK OF THIS MARQUETRY MASTER IS DONE WITH HAND TOOLS AND ORGANIC TRADITIONAL MATERIALS AND METHODS. WILLIAM PATRICK EDWARDS WAS BORN IN LOS ANGELES IN 1948 AND RAISED IN SAN DIEGO, WHERE HIS STUDIO IS NOW LOCATED. HE STUDIED PHYSICS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO AND GRADUATED WITH A BA IN APPLIED PHYSICS AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. HOWEVER, EDWARDS, LONG INTERESTED IN ANTIQUE FURNITURE, STARTED AN ANTIQUE RESTORATION BUSINESS IN 1969. SINCE THEN, HIS PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION HAS BEEN CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL FURNITURE, USING ONLY HAND TOOLS AND TRADITIONAL METHODS AND MATERIALS. ATTENDEES: 60VIRTUAL AUDIENCES: THROUGH MOUNTING VIRTUAL EVENTS IN 2020-2021, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND AND DIVERSIFY AUDIENCES SERVED BY OUR EVENTS. ATTENDEES COME FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST BUT ALSO FROM THE EAST COAST AND, OCCASIONALLY, ABROAD. MEMBERSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATION HAS ALSO EXPANDED TO INCLUDE MEMBERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND THE UK.IN ADDITION, WE LAUNCHED OUR RUSKIN ART CLUB YOUTUBE CHANNEL IN 2021, WHICH ARCHIVES ALL OUR CURRENT PROGRAMS AND MANY FROM THE RECENT PAST AS A SERVICE BOTH TO MEMBERS AND FRIENDS AND AS AN ONGOING RESOURCE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE CHANNEL EXPANDS THE OUTREACH OF OUR ACTIVITIES TO ONLINE SUBSCRIBERS AND YOUTUBE AUDIENCES.2.THURSDAYS, SEPT. 10, 17, 24 / 5-6:30 [PDT]VIRTUAL CONFERENCE RUSKINS LIFE: A RADICAL REINTERPRETATIONJIM SPATES, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIOLOGYHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES, GENEVA, NEW YORKWITH GABRIEL MEYERFOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, THE ACCEPTED VERSION OF JOHN RUSKINS LIFE STORY HAS BEEN IN ERROR. SO GRAVE HAS BEEN THE ERROR, RUSKINS REPUTATION HAS SUFFERED GREATLY, ALONG WITH SERIOUS INTEREST IN HIS VITAL AND EVER-RELEVANT WORK.THIS LECTURE SERIES WILL BE A DISTILLATION, IN THREE VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS CONDUCTED WITH GABRIEL MEYER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE RUSKIN ART CLUB IN LOS ANGELES, OF THE FINDINGS CONTAINED IN MAJOR STUDIES OF RUSKINS LIFE THAT PROF. SPATES HAS CONDUCTED AND PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES. ALL OUR SESSIONS WILL BEGIN AT 5 PM PDT AND EACH PRESENTATION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIOD WITH THE AUDIENCE. HELEN GILL VILJOEN: THE UNSUNG HERO OF RUSKIN BIOGRAPHYATTENDEES: 45RUSKINS MENTAL ILLNESS: AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATIONATTENDEES: 42 RUSKINS SEXUALITY: CORRECTING A CENTURY OF MISINFORMATION AND MISDIAGNOSISATTENDEES: 473.AN EVENING WITH DAVID JUDSON OF JUDSON STUDIOSMONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020/ 7:00 PM-8:30 PMRUSKIN SCHOLAR SARA ATWOOD INTERVIEWS DAVID JUDSON, PRESIDENT OF THE HISTORIC JUDSON STUDIOS IN LOS ANGELES/SOUTH PASADENA ABOUT HIS RECENT HISTORY OF THIS 123-YEAR-OLD ARCHITECTURAL GLASS MANUFACTURER, JUDSON: INNOVATION IN STAINED GLASS.ATTENDANCE: 704.A SCREENING OF THE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARMSATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020 / 2:00 PM -3:30 PMQ&A WITH JOHN CHESTER AFTER THE SCREENING FROM 3:30-4:15PM.DIRECTED BY FILMMAKER AND FARMER JOHN CHESTER, THE FILM IS A TESTAMENT TO THE COMPLEXITY OF NATURE, FOLLOWING JOHN, HIS WIFE MOLLY, AND THEIR DOG TODD ON AN EPIC ODYSSEY TO ATTEMPT TO FARM WITHIN A REAWAKENING ECOSYSTEM. 91 MINUTES. FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL 45-MINUTE ON-SITE Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKER/FARMER JOHN CHESTER ATTENDANCE: 345.DR. JANET BUBAR RICH LECTURES ON "THE IMPACT OF PRE-RAPHAELITES DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND WILLIAM MORRIS ON GUINEVERE AND THE ARTHURIAN MYTH CYCLE"THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020 / 5:00 PM -6:30 PMJANET BUBAR RICH, PH.D.WITH A B.A. IN ENGLISH FROM UC BERKELEY AND A PH.D. IN MYTHOLOGICAL STUDIES WITH AN EMPHASIS IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY FROM PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE, DR. JANET BUBAR RICH IS A WRITER, EDITOR, AND LECTURER BASED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (WWW.JANETBUBARRICH.COM). ATTENDANCE: 346.LOST & FOUND: AMBOISE THE SAGA OF A RARE EARLY RUSKIN WATERCOLORTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2020 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PM STUART DENENBERG (DENENBERG FINE ARTS, WEST HOLLYWOOD) RECENTLY ACQUIRED A STRIKING WATERCOLOR SKETCH ATTRIBUTED TO RUSKIN (1840) OF THE CASTLE AT AMBOISE. THE DRAWING, LONG ATTRIBUTED TO TURNER, IS NOW RELIABLY BELIEVED TO BE A LOST EARLY RUSKIN PREPARATORY SKETCH, EXECUTED IN THE STYLE OF RUSKINS AESTHETIC HERO, J.M.W. TURNER. STUART WILL DESCRIBE THE PROVENANCE OF THE DRAWING AS WELL AS REVIEW THE WORK OF SCHOLARS, SUCH AS STEPHEN WILDMAN, WHO HAVE STUDIED IT. ATTENDANCE: 237.LECTURE: "RUSKIN AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM" BY GABRIEL MEYERTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2020 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMRUSKIN ART CLUBS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILL LECTURE ON THE REMARKABLE (AND REMARKABLY UNDER-REPORTED) INFLUENCE JOHN RUSKIN HAD ON AMERICAN ART MOVEMENTS AND ARTS EDUCATION IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA AND ON STATESIDE SOCIAL AND UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. WHILE THE TALK WILL TRACE THE OUTLINES OF RUSKINS BROAD INFLUENCE, THE FOCUS WILL BE ON WAYS IN WHICH THE MYTH OF CALIFORNIA AS A THEATER OF SOCIAL REDEMPTION IN THE DECADES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR FOSTERED WIDESPREAD INTEREST IN RUSKINIAN IDEALISM.ATTENDANCE: 3520218.LECTURE: RUSKIN, THE ROYCROFT, AND THE PHOTOGRAPH: FROM DOCUMENTARY CRAFT TO ARTISTIC MEDIUM BY PETER POTTER, ROBERT FLYNN JOHNSON, MODERATORTHURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021 / 5:00 PM -6:30 PMIN THIS PRESENTATION PETER POTTER WILL SHARE SOME OF JOHN RUSKIN'S DAGUERREOTYPES OF VENICE AND INVESTIGATE HIS EMBRACE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY. HE WILL ALSO DISCUSS THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS A HOBBY, A CRAFT, AND AN ART FORM. ATTENDANCE: 759.LECTURE: RETURN TO NATURE: THE HISTORIC SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO (1895) AND ITS ROLE IN CALIFORNIA ARTS AND CRAFTS BY TED BOSLEYTHURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEDWARD ("TED") BOSLEY IS DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORIC GAMBLE HOUSE IN PASADENA. THIS TALK FOCUSES ON THE SAN FRANCISCO SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH AS A PARADIGM EXPRESSION OF THE ARTS & CRAFTS ERA IN THE AMERICAN WEST, BRIDGING THE MOVEMENTS RUSKINIAN ORIGINS IN BRITAIN TO ITS DEVELOPMENT ON THE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT.ATTENDANCE: 2210.RUSKINS BIRTHDAY CONCERT WITH THE ZELTER QUARTET (THORNTON SCHOOL, USC)THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMTHIS SPECIAL EVENT WILL FEATURE PERFORMANCES OF HAYDNS C-MAJOR STRING QUARTET (OP. 20, NO.2) AND BEETHOVENS E-MINOR STRING QUARTET (OP. 59, NO. 2), ALONG WITH SHORT READINGS (WITH ACTORS JOANNA CASSIDY AND KATHE MAZUR) FROM RUSKINS WORKS.ATTENDANCE: 2211.LECTURE: MADE OUT OF WHAT??!!: REVIVIFYING THE WORLD THROUGH ART, DESIGN AND INNOVATION BY DENISE DOMERGUETHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMDENISE DOMERGUE IS FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF MADE OUT OF WHAT. THIS TALK WILL FOCUS ON THE EXPLOSION OF CREATIVITY THAT IS PERCOLATING UP FROM ALL POINTS ON THE GLOBE IN RESPONSE TO OUR PLANETS LARGELY HUMAN-CAUSED EXISTENTIAL EMERGENCY. IT WILL SHOWCASE A DIVERSITY OF IDEAS, SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATIONS GENERATED BY PRACTITIONERS OF FINE ART, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND OTHER DIVERSE FIELDS MOTIVATED BY THIS PRESSING CHALLENGE. ATTENDANCE: 5012.SCIENCE, ARCHITECTURE, AND RUSKIN'S WORLD BY JOHN A. FIDLER AND NORMAN R. WEISSTHURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMRUSKINS FAMOUS LAMP OF MEMORY IN THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE (1849) AND THE SUBSEQUENT STONES OF VENICE (1851-3) GREATLY INFLUENCED SUBSEQUENT CAMPAIGNERS WILLIAM MORRIS AND PHILIP WEBB IN THEIR MANIFESTO OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS, 1877, AND IN THEIR QUEST FOR THE PRESERVATION, RATHER THAN DRASTIC RESTORATION, OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS. THIS LEGACY HAS HELD BACK CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS.ATTENDANCE: 3813.VIRTUAL TOUR OF CRAFTING AMERICA AT CRYSTAL BRIDGES WITH CURATOR JEN PADGETTTHURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMFEATURING OVER 100 WORKS IN CERAMICS, FIBER, WOOD, METAL, GLASS, AND MORE UNEXPECTED MATERIALS, CRAFTING AMERICA PRESENTS A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE STORY OF AMERICAN CRAFT FROM THE 1940S TO TODAY. SUZANNE ISKEN (CRAFT CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES) MODERATES.ATTENDANCE: 2414.THE SPANISH STYLE HOUSE: FROM ENCHANTED ANDALUSIA TO THE CALIFORNIA DREAM, PHOTOGRAPHED BY MELBA LEVICK, TEXT BY RUBN G. MENDOZATHURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMNEW PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASES CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORIC HOMES IN THE BELOVED SPANISH STYLE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHILE OFFERING, AS WELL, A RARE LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONS TO THE STYLE BORN IN ANDALUSIA, SPAIN. DR. WILLIAM DEVERELL, DIRECTOR OF THE HUNTINGTON-USC INSTITUTE ON CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST, MODERATES.ATTENDANCE: 9115.RUSKIN BEYOND BRITAIN SEMINAR (UK, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY), GABRIEL MEYER: RUSKIN AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM WITH CHRISTOPHER DONALDSONTHURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 / 8:00 AM-9:30 AMRUSKIN ART CLUB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GIVES HIS LECTURE ON RUSKINS INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE 19TH-20TH CEN

CONTINUED - 24 EVENTS: LECTURES, CONCERT, FILM & PHOTO EXHIBIT 17.MINI-CONFERENCE: RUSKIN AND THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS - BLACK DEVIL AND GENTLE CLOUD: RUSKIN AND EMERSON BY PROFESSOR SARA ATWOOD; JIM SPATES MODERATESTHURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMTHIS IS PART ONE IN A SERIES OF THREE LECTURES OF THE RUSKIN ART CLUBS ONGOING SERIES OF PRESENTATIONS ON RUSKIN IN AMERICA. JOHN RUSKIN AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON ARE AMONG THE REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE VICTORIAN PERIOD. TODAY, OUR DEBATES ABOUT EDUCATION, NATURE, AND LABOR ECHO WITH RUSKINIAN AND EMERSONIAN NOTIONS, FROM SELF-CULTURE AND SELF-RELIANCE TO MUTUALITY AND THE VALUE OF WORK. WE CONTINUE TO FACE MANY OF THE PROBLEMS WITH WHICH THEY WRESTLED AND TO SEEK ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS THEY ASKED. ATTENDANCE: 39HE WHO SHOOTS AT BEAUTY: THOREAU ON THE WINGS OF RUSKIN PROFESSOR LAURA DASSOW-WALLS; GABRIEL MEYER MODERATESTHURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMLATE IN 1857, THOREAU IMMERSED HIMSELF IN RUSKINS WRITINGS, AND ALTHOUGH HE CRITICIZED RUSKINS ORIENTATION TO ART RATHER THAN NATURE, HE INFUSED HIS LATE WRITINGS WITH RUSKINIAN WAYS OF SEEING, INCLUDING PAINTERLY STUDIES OF COLOR AND THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN SUSTAINING REALITY.ATTENDANCE: 23"'MOUNTAIN GLOOM, MOUNTAIN GLORY': RUSKIN AND JOHN MUIR" BY GABRIEL MEYERTHURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMRUSKIN ART CLUB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GABRIEL MEYER EXAMINES THE WAYS RUSKIN'S IDEAS INFLUENCED PIONEERING NATURALIST JOHN MUIR (1838-1914) AND AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.ATTENDANCE: 4518.HEALTH IS WEALTH: EXPLORING RUSKINIAN THEMES WITH DR. KAY WALTER AND HER STUDENTS, ZACHARY BULLOCK, MODERATORTHURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PM IN UNTO THIS LAST, HIS MASTERPIECE OF SOCIAL CRITICISM, THE VICTORIAN POLYMATH JOHN RUSKIN DECLARES EMPHATICALLY, THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. THE LIFE HE ENVISIONS IS NOT A SIMPLE ANTONYM TO DEATH AS HE GOES ON TO EXPLAIN, LIFE, INCLUDING ALL ITS POWERS OF LOVE, OF JOY, AND OF ADMIRATION. THIS POWERFUL ACT OF LIFE IMPLIES A VITALITY CONCOMITANT WITH GOOD HEALTH. RUSKINS BOOK REMAINS INSPIRATIONAL IN OUR CURRENT AGE OF PANDEMIC ENDURANCE. MY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND I WILL CONSIDER 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE IN TERMS THAT FOCUS ON HEALTH AS A MANIFESTATION OF WEALTH IN ITS BROADEST SENSE. WITH STUDENTS ASHLEY KING, KATIE VERMILYEA, AND BRADEN TAYLOR.ATTENDANCE: 2319.FROM THE ARROYO SECO CANYON TO THE COSMOS: THE CALIFORNIA ART CLUBS AVANT-GARDE JOURNEY OF MORE THAN 100 YEARSTHURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021 / 5:00 PM-6:30 PMFOUNDED IN 1909 ALONG THE BANKS OF THE ARROYO SECO IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, THE HISTORIC CALIFORNIA ART CLUB IS ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST ACTIVE FINE ART ORGANIZATIONS IN AMERICA. A CULTURAL YOUNGER COUSIN OF THE RUSKIN ART CLUB, THE ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISHED BY A HANDFUL OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS WHO MIGRATED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THREE THOUGHT LEADERS WHO HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TODAYS RENEWED INTEREST IN TRADITIONAL ART FORMS JEAN STERN, PETER ADAMS AND ELAINE ADAMS WILL PRESENT THE CALIFORNIAS ART CLUBS ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY, FROM ITS EARLY YEARS, WHICH INCLUDED THE INVOLVEMENT OF RUSKIN ARTISTS, TO ITS REVIVAL IN 1993,ATTENDANCE: 4620.RUSKIN: MUSEUM OF THE NEAR FUTURE WITH PROF. SANDRA KEMP (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UK)SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 / 10:00 AM-11:30 AMTHE RUSKIN LIBRARY, MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTRE IS HOME TO THE WORLD-LEADING COLLECTION OF WORKS BY THE ARTIST, CRITIC, ENVIRONMENTALIST AND SOCIAL THINKER JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) AND HIS CIRCLE. IT HOUSES THOUSANDS OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND 125 DAGUERREOTYPES. RUSKINS OEUVRE IS ROOTED IN HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATURAL WORLD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO INHABIT THIS WORLD, AS IS EVIDENT IN IN HIS FINELY OBSERVED DIAGRAMS OF PLANTS AND PEACOCK FEATHERS, HIS GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, AND HIS PHOTOGRAPHY OF GLACIAL LANDSCAPES. THIS PRESENTATION WILL EXPLORE RUSKINS LEGACY IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION. RUSKINS EMPHASIS ON PLURAL REPERTOIRES OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE INTERPLAY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VALUE ARE INCREASINGLY RELEVANT TODAY. ATTENDANCE: 36