Laguna Art Museum

Despite financial losses at Laguna Art Museum, museum officials are bullish on the future. The museum has lost more than $500,000 in the last fiscal year, members learned Sept. 22 at the annual membership meeting. At the same time, memberships and paid admissions are up, and the museum is fully staffed for the first time in 13 years, Director Bolton Colburn said. “This museum is on firmer footing than many others in the country,” said Louis Rohl, president of the board of trustees.

ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on Thursday for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Free shuttle service starts from the Laguna Art Museum at 6:15 and runs until 9. Information: www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com or (949) 683-6871. The next Art Walk will be Oct. 6. First Thursday's Art Walk and CaDance Festival present two performances that combine art and dance: Francisco Gella and Miho Morinoue perform improvisational movement and music at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the garden at Richard MacDonald Gallery/Dawson Cole Fine Art, 326 Glenneyre St. Beth Bartholomew, Lynn Barre and Francisco Gella perform with video projection of a 23-minute dance film, "Kamera 1/Kamera 2," directed by Talal Al-Muhanna, at 8 p.m. at Contemporary Chinese Fine Art, 1099 S. Coast Highway.

A most significant contribution to the Orange County landscape by businessman-philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom , that is also possibly the least recognized, is his artistic vision, and the elevated standard demanded by that vision. Last week in Laguna Beach in association with the Laguna Art Museum, Henry and Elizabeth Segerstrom representing the Segerstrom Family Foundation served as presenting sponsors joining forces with corporate sponsor Hurley and additional donors for the opening of "Noguchi: California Legacy.

ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on Thursday for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Free shuttle service starts from the Laguna Art Museum at 6:15 and runs until 9. Information: www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com or (949) 683-6871. ( Denotes galleries that participate in the First Thursday Art Walk.) The next Art Walk will be on Oct. 6. LAGUNA ART MUSEUM Janet Blake, Laguna Art Museum curator of collections, will conduct a lecture at 1 p.m. Sunday on the current exhibition, "California Art from the Permanent Collection, Part I, The Beginning, 1832-1925."

“Not to be shocking means to agree to be furniture.” Scrawled in an upper corner of an Orange County Museum of Art hallway, the phrase suits the times, as three new art shows bring the scandalous, the avant-garde and the satirical to Orange County. The Orange County Museum of Art has launched a major new retrospective of the works of Peter Saul, compiled from the past several decades. Saul is a controversial pioneer of pop art whose works, called “sick jokes” by Robert Storr, the curator and dean of the Yale School of Art, inspired legions of fans.

Virginia E. Lopez "Good afternoon everyone. It is with great pleasure that we welcome you today to the opening of the Fine Arts Patrons Pavilion Gallery." Thus, on Oct. 14, 1961, began a creative trust that continues today as the Orange County Museum of Art. That year, 13 women gathered together to form an art museum at the Balboa Pavilion. Calling themselves the Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, they set about to pull together a cultural experience that would promote a better understanding of the arts.

LAGUNA BEACH — Newport Beach artist Jason Maloney and the Laguna Art Museum are challenging Orange County children to think like an artist in a special hands-on workshop Sunday. "Build Your Own Art Shack," in conjunction with the museum's ongoing "Art Shack" exhibition, will provide children with supplies and Maloney's artistic guidance as they design they're own miniature "shacks"— brightly decorated wooden birdhouses. "The idea is to get kids in there and to see what the artists have done and how they've created this positive element out of something that might have a negative connotation," Maloney said.

A most significant contribution to the Orange County landscape by businessman-philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom , that is also possibly the least recognized, is his artistic vision, and the elevated standard demanded by that vision. Last week in Laguna Beach in association with the Laguna Art Museum, Henry and Elizabeth Segerstrom representing the Segerstrom Family Foundation served as presenting sponsors joining forces with corporate sponsor Hurley and additional donors for the opening of "Noguchi: California Legacy.

LAGUNA BEACH — Newport Beach artist Jason Maloney and the Laguna Art Museum are challenging Orange County children to think like an artist in a special hands-on workshop Sunday. "Build Your Own Art Shack," in conjunction with the museum's ongoing "Art Shack" exhibition, will provide children with supplies and Maloney's artistic guidance as they design they're own miniature "shacks"— brightly decorated wooden birdhouses. "The idea is to get kids in there and to see what the artists have done and how they've created this positive element out of something that might have a negative connotation," Maloney said.

2009 came to a close with 400 guests converging on the Balboa Bay Club & Resort in support of Girls Incorporated of Orange County. Girls Inc., a nonprofit with the mission of inspiring all young women to be “strong, smart and bold,” raised an impressive $322,000 in support of its year-round programs. The event welcomed keynote speaker Karen Katz , Neiman Marcus president and chief executive. Local celebrity chef Jamie Gwen served as mistress of ceremonies for the party , which also celebrated 55 years of the Girls Inc. presence in Orange County.

The fortune cookie told the story of my life: “You will step on the soil of many countries.” After cracking open the after-dinner cookie Tuesday, I slipped the piece of paper bearing my fortune into my wallet and forgot about it. My life has been made from the clay of many countries, but little did I know that those foretelling words would come true again the following evening. And I didn’t have to travel far. I drove down Pacific Coast Highway to attend an event at the Laguna Art Museum hosted by a fellow global-minded citizen, Doug Wilson, who was a stranger to me. About 140 people showed up, including some folks from Newport-Mesa, to hear an informal talk by two world human rights experts and to take part in a town hall-like question-and-answer session.

Despite financial losses at Laguna Art Museum, museum officials are bullish on the future. The museum has lost more than $500,000 in the last fiscal year, members learned Sept. 22 at the annual membership meeting. At the same time, memberships and paid admissions are up, and the museum is fully staffed for the first time in 13 years, Director Bolton Colburn said. “This museum is on firmer footing than many others in the country,” said Louis Rohl, president of the board of trustees.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – Orange County’s arts community will make available thousands of free tickets to cultural events during October’s “Arts and Humanities” Month as part of Arts Orange County’s “Free Nights of Theater, Music, Dance and Art.” The program is being run in coordination with the Theatre Communications Group, a national theatre association that will be conducting its...

  Erna Juptner 1931 - 2008     Erna Juptner, a long time Laguna Beach resident, passed away on July 16, 2008. She was 77.   Erna was born and raised in Munich, Germany.   After working at a popular national magazine, she married her husband, Bill, and they moved to Chicago in 1954.   She visited Southern California with Bill on one of his business trips and they both fell in love with Laguna Beach, which was her home for the past 45 years.

“Not to be shocking means to agree to be furniture.” Scrawled in an upper corner of an Orange County Museum of Art hallway, the phrase suits the times, as three new art shows bring the scandalous, the avant-garde and the satirical to Orange County. The Orange County Museum of Art has launched a major new retrospective of the works of Peter Saul, compiled from the past several decades. Saul is a controversial pioneer of pop art whose works, called “sick jokes” by Robert Storr, the curator and dean of the Yale School of Art, inspired legions of fans.

ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on Thursday for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Free shuttle service starts from the Laguna Art Museum at 6:15 and runs until 9. Information: www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com or (949) 683-6871. ( Denotes galleries that participate in the First Thursday Art Walk.) The next Art Walk will be Nov. 3. LAGUNA ART MUSEUM "Greetings from Laguna Beach: Our Town in the Early 1900s," on view indefinitely in the Stein-Brief Gallery, is a reprise of the museum's popular 2003 exhibition.