June 1, 2010: Information meeting on 10-day trip into the Pacific Northwest

 

The Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos is planning a ten-day trip (September 9-19, 2010) into the Pacific Northwest. Led by Board President Patti Jacquemain and her husband Dave Gledhill, the guided trip begins in Seattle and moves through Port Townsend, La Conner, Orcas Island, and more. Details about the trip will be discussed at an informational meeting to be held at “Creekspirit” in Mission Canyon, Wednesday, June 16, at 4:00 p.m. All proceeds will benefit the WAM’s programs and support the Museum’s mission to connect people to the wonders of nature and art.

Highlights of the trip include a fascinating underground tour below Pioneer Square in Seattle, ferry rides to islands in the area, visits to Bainbridge Garden, the Bloedel Reserve, Crow Valley Pottery and Gallery, Butchart Gardens, a butterfly farm, and the Royal British Columbia Museum. For further information contact Dave Gledhill at Dave@wildlingmuseum.org or call 805-682-9625.

 

May 28, 2010: Geo-CA$H Treasure Hunt

 

The Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, a museum dedicated to the art of America’s wilderness, has hidden 30 special geo-caches around the Santa Ynez Valley. Using your GPS technology, the Wildling invites you to search the Valley in this unique and fun game to support the Museum. Hunt for the thirty marked cans, each containing a unique slip of paper, between June 2 and September 6, 2010. Fun for the whole family, spend summer days collecting slips from the different caches and become eligible to enter our cash-prize raffle (18 and older) or drawing for a cuddly “Wildling” fox stuffed animal (17 and under). Each grouping of 10 different slips allows you to either purchase a $5 raffle ticket or enter the drawing. Our jackpot is primed with $50 and the top-winning ticket will receive 10 percent of the growing Cache-CA$H Jackpot Prize! Subsequent raffle winners will be eligible to win other prizes. The more you gather, the more you can enter!

GPS coordinates to the caches are available through the Wildling website or can be picked up at the Museum. A “hint” sheet of images will be available also. You must bring your gathered slips to the Museum before September 6, 2010 to be eligible to win. You must be 18 or older to purchase a raffle ticket or must be 17 or under to enter the drawing. All of the Wildling’s caches will be retrieved by September 7, 2010. Please take only one slip per person, per cache. If you find a cache empty, please notify the Wildling. The winning tickets will be drawn September 7, 2010.

 

May 28, 2010: Summer exhibition "The Desert Speaks: The Art of Fernand Lungren"

 

The Wildling Art Museum’s exhibition “The Desert Speaks: The Art of Fernand Lungren," opens to the public June 16 and continues through September 19. The exhibition features 23 works from the permanent collection of the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) as well as several works from other lenders. While Lungren (1857-1932) had a distinguished and diverse career, this exhibition showcases what he is best known for: his evocative desert landscapes. He was a master at capturing the mood, light, colors, and tonal variations of the desert. The body of work will be augmented by a biography of his life and include interpretative material about the fragility of the desert landscapes he portrayed so lovingly. There is a certain mystic and lure to the desert which we hope will inspire repeat visitation. As Lungren wrote, “One who has once come under the spell of the desert and has learned to love its wonderful elusive beauty, its wide stretches of apparent nothingness yet replete with charm and subtlety, its color and majesty of form, there remains no choice but to return again and again….”

Lungren came to Santa Barbara in 1906, and built a home in Mission Canyon, which still stands. He and his wife Henrietta became very involved in the community and were instrumental in founding the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Upon his death, Lungren chose to bequeath over 300 of his works to the Santa Barbara State Teacher’s College, later to become the University Art Museum, UCSB.