Westmont professor and Santa Barbara author Marilyn Chandler McEntyre has recently released the third of three volumes of poems on the work of Dutch artists, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh. “In Quiet Light,” “Drawn to the Light,” and “The Color of Light,” offer readers reflections on their paintings.
Santa Barbara school board members axed many music programs this year due to budget constraints, following a nationwide trend of focusing on academics while neglecting the arts. Michael Shasberger, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and worship, will speak on “Reading, Writing and Music: Why Music Belongs at the Center of the Curriculum,” Thursday, Nov. 8, at 5:30 p.m. at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St.
Hollywood composer J.A.C. Redford has arranged a piece for Westmont ’s
Chamber Orchestra to be premiered Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p. m. at First Presbyterian
Church, Constance and State Street. The orchestra will also perform Sunday, Nov. 4,
7 p.m. at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road. These
performances are made possible in part by the generous support of Prudent i al
California Realty.
Acclaimed children's book artists C.F. Payne, Lisbeth Zwerger, and Gregory
Manchess will exhibit work in Reynolds Gallery's "Storytellers: Children's
Book Illustrators," Nov. 3 through Dec. 13. The artists will be available to
sign books at the family-friendly opening reception Saturday, Nov. 3, from 2
to 5 p.m.
The difficult life of author Richard Wright is the subject of a one-man play, “Black Boy,” to be performed by Charles Holt at Westmont’s Porter Theatre one night only, Thurs. Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. A suggested donation of $5 will benefit the student-lead group Racial Equality and Justice (REJ). The actor will hold an open forum in Hieronymus Lounge Friday, November 2, at 3:15 p.m. to discuss the production.
Visiting scholar Araceli Ardón will lecture on “The Caves of Altamira, Spain: A guided Tour of the Oldest Museum in the World” Thursday, Nov. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge. Ardón is one of the few people in the past three decades who have entered Altamira Cave, famous for its Upper Paleolithic paintings.
Ardón served as director of the Museum of Art in Querétaro, Mexico for eight years before getting the chance of a lifetime.