Arts Council Offers Inside Look at Studios
Ever wonder what sort of masterpieces are being sculpted, sketched, and spun inside those artists’ hideaways nestled in the hills of Topanga?
Find out Wednesday, when the Calabasas Arts Council leads a bus tour to three artists’ studios in Topanga Canyon.
The three-hour trip will include a visit to see “the Venus of El Segundo,” better known as Barbie, depicted in a diptych wood carving that also features the image of the ancient Venus of Willendorf. The piece reflects the images of female beauty people have embraced through the ages, said its creator, Richard Oginz.
“I’m interested in how we’re the same as we always have been, since the cave people, and how we’re different,” Oginz said. He predicted that when future archeologists examine our civilization “They’re going to find a lot of Barbies.”
The tour also will include stops at the studios of glass artists Dan and Eve King-Lehman and a ceramist, Karen Silton, said Laureen Morick, the arts council’s founder. The tour, which includes a buffet lunch at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center, costs $25.
The tour leaves Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. from the Tennis & Swim Center, 23400 Park Sorrento. To make a reservation, call the center at (818) 222-2782.
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