Celebrate the Arts! Music, theatre, visual arts, and much more.

Performances at the High Street Arts Center
11:00 a.m.: Ballet Folklorico
11:30 a.m.: Conejo Players Children's Theatre
12:00 p.m.: Walnut Canyon & Arroyo West String Orchestras
12:30 p.m.: Treblemakers
1:00 p.m.: Pam Rossi's Dance Ten
1:30 p.m.: The Gypsy Dancers
2:00 p.m.: Dancing Divas
2:30 p.m.: CSUCI Vocal Jazz Club
3:00 p.m.: Improv-a-sutra

Arts Festival Activities at the Library
"Dia de los Ninos / Dia de los Libros"
12:00 noon: Bilingual Story Teller Erna Cortez
12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.: Cultural Arts & Crafts sponsored by First Five
2:30 p.m.: Bilingual Mariachi Magic Show with Rafael and Katia

Other Great Activities
Chalk Art by Matt Oppenheimer
Caricatures by Dave Boatman
Wheel Throwing Demo by Chad Steele
DETAILS COMING SOON!

Congratulations to our 2009 featured artist Kathleen Ikerd!
Kathy Ikerd was born, and raised in Northern California. She and her family traveled and moved often while her husband served in the U.S. Navy. The vibrant colors and elegant simplicity of the Far East left a lasting impression that often appears in her work. Art has always been a passion and she enjoyed drawing and art classes in school. Kathy’s fondest memory of the past is when a young schoolmate asked to trade drawings while walking home.
In 1996, Kathy studied graphic design. After completing a program through the Regional Occupational Center in Camarillo, she enrolled at Ventura College. The variety of art classes offered rekindled her fondness for art where she studied under Hiroko Yoshimoto, Carlyle Cooper, and Bob Moskowitz. Kathy has pursued other painting studies through various art workshops, Art Center of Design, Pasadena and the California Art Institute, Thousand Oaks.
Kathy enjoys working with oils because o their richness and substance and likes acrylics because of its immediacy on canvas. A recipient of many awards, Kathy is inspired by nature, shapes, light and shadow and is known for her colors. Her work has been described as poetic and meditative. Many of her tree paintings represent life, strength, challenges, and harmony. Her paintings are a visual communication through unspoken words upon which people may reflect.
Recent awards include a merit awards at Buenaventura and Harbor Village galleries, 2008; first prize winner in the oil/acrylic division, Professional Arts Department at the Ventura County Fair, 2007; first place winner of the Hot Summer Days, Hot Summer Nights exhibit at the Ojai Center for the Arts, 2007; first prize in the oil/acrylic category at the 69th Annual Art & Photography Exhibit in Santa Paula, 2006.
Kathy was chosen among several emerging artists to paint an "I Love Ventura" banner, a public art competition and in 2000, her entry was selected for the design of Santa Paula's 33rd Annual Citrus Festival Poster. Her work has appeared in juried shows at Buenaventura Gallery, Harbor Village Gallery, San Buenaventura Artist's Union, Ojai Center for the Arts, Santa Paula Art and Photography Exhibit, Ventura College, Chaz Benton Gallery, Santa Paula Art and Jazz Festival and she has been a frequent participant in Ventura ArtWalks. In 2004, she was one of 10 artists selected to decorate a violin for Ventura Music Association's, Festival of the Violins benefit. In 2004 she won the Barney Dietz, Best of Show Award at Ventura College; her painting, Mirror Lake, is displayed in the college's permanent collection.

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