#beatricewood

[loisrileydurham]

#QuoteOfTheDay #BeatriceWood #quote #quotes

[rxharpe]

Thanks to friends new & old, great neighbors & @bellartsfactory for making my 40th birthday fantasies come true. I embodied Beatrice Woods, my birthday twin, on March 3rd for a show honoring Women. Beto was an amazing women who lived by her own rules and is known as the Mama of Dada. It was an honor to channel the spirit of this accomplished ceramicist whose life was a masterful art piece influenced by surrealism, absurdity, rebellion, discipline in her artistic practice, experimentation, alchemy, and freedom Special thanks to @chi_town_tay for organizing the young men to feed me chocolates while surrounded by art books. (Tag friends) #feral40s #birthdayperformance #beatricewoods #beto #chocolate (at Bell Arts Factory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpcjyrdr4cn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#feral40s #birthdayperformance #beatricewoods #beto #chocolate

[abwwia]

That's the spirit! What an Inspiration 💪💃

Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the #AvantGarde movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada". via Wikipedia

via fb WOMENSRIGHTSNEWS (2013) found with a caption: Ceramic artist Beatrice Wood worked on a potter's wheel every day until she was 103. Wood who said "My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road," died at age 105.

#BeatriceWood #dada #dadaartist #womenaart #artbywomen #PalianShow #women #artherstory

[spacemen2001]

La verdadera Rose del Titanic que conoció a Jack

Beatrice Wood

la inspiración del Personaje Rose de la película Titanic

Reportaje de Meganoticias Chile

#BeatriceWood #Arte #peliculas #Cine #Titanic #JamesCameron #Meganoticias

#Youtube

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[bm-american-art]

Portrait de la Petite Pecheuse de Francavilla d'Apres Recit, Beatrice Wood, May 30, 1917, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

Size: sheet (irregular): 10 1/8 x 5 5/16 in. (25.7 x 13.5 cm) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/113105

#beatricewood #americanart #museumarchive #brooklynmuseum

[mia-decorative]

Cup and Saucer, from a tea service, Beatrice Wood, 1952, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

blueish-green, with brown tones Size: 1 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (4.45 x 13.65 x 13.65 cm) (overall) Medium: Earthenware with luster glaze

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/60963/

#artsmia #beatricewood #minneapolisinstituteofart #museumarchive

[jimhair]

I drove down to Ojai to see Breatrice Wood, and knocked on her door without calling first in 1985. Beatrice generously spent a few hours with me at her studio and home. I didn't ask but she offered to show me her throwing technique and proceeded to make a bowl. At this time Beato was only 90. This was after she demonstrated how to use an Apple computer. Beatrice Wood, Ojai, July 1985 #beatricewood #mamaofdada #earth #human #family #america #social #documentary #artist #photography @hasselblad #hasselblad #swc #camera #mediumformat @kodak #ektachrome #film #photography #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #leftcoast #oregon #streetphotography @hasselbladculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CO4E7kiH_pw/?igshid=ja2esijlyx1j

#beatricewood #mamaofdada #earth #human #family #america #social #documentary #artist #photography #hasselblad #swc #camera #mediumformat #ektachrome #film #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #leftcoast #oregon #streetphotography

[no23]

friday #mood with #beatricewood 🍫 https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tHnpIAVZN/?igshid=17ia0dpyxltkr

#mood #beatricewood

[beatricewood]

Beatrice Wood created this bowl in 1946 to celebrate the creation of the Happy Valley School (today the Besant Hill School Of Happy Valley). In arranging for the purchase of 500 acres in Upper Ojai, Annie Besant envisioned a future school and art center. On the back of this work are the names of the individuals who were central to the new venture: Sara & Robert Logan, Rosalind Rajagopal, Louis Zalk, Aldous Huxley and Dr. Guido Ferrando. #beatricewood #ojai #happyvalley #besanthill #besanthillschool #besanthillschoolofhappyvalley #education #ceramics (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bot3dukA65h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cihfan52jpky

#beatricewood #ojai #happyvalley #besanthill #besanthillschool #besanthillschoolofhappyvalley #education #ceramics

[findingsally8870]

Drove through #upperojai so that I could enjoy some more of these glorious #views of #ojaivalley, as well as pay another visit to the #beatricewoodcenterforthearts where I get to learn more about who #beatricewood was as a woman, #artist and #trailblazer. She was such a firecracker! No wonder she was able to create so prolifically. Look at her surroundings! My God. It is so beautiful and peaceful here! Love live Beatrice Wood and May she RIP, surrounded by endless quantities of chocolate and young handsome men!! ❤️😜 (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTNGj2el4_Tp-MZ4uDkKCZ8G3zj_ca8TnRlccA0/?utm_medium=tumblr

#upperojai #views #ojaivalley #beatricewoodcenterforthearts #beatricewood #artist #trailblazer

[avesta-asiwa]

Beatrice Wood 🤍💙 Beatrice was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. #beatricewood #fineart #artist #nyclife #newyork #marcelduchamp #henripierreroché #art #avantgarde #studiopotter #potterhead #creative #creativephotography #finejewelry #silver #silverjewelry #bejeweled #couturelingerie #line #specialforces #womenempowerment #women #womenstyle #edit #edits #aesthetic #cutebaby #idol #icon #womenofhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CSjFlwkIrNn/?utm_medium=tumblr

#beatricewood #fineart #artist #nyclife #newyork #marcelduchamp #henripierreroché #art #avantgarde #studiopotter #potterhead #creative #creativephotography #finejewelry #silver #silverjewelry #bejeweled #couturelingerie #line #specialforces #womenempowerment #women #womenstyle #edit #edits #aesthetic #cutebaby #idol #icon #womenofhistory

[virgilsongs]

Virgil’s Waiting Home

Virgil’s new album, Waiting Home, has just been released. Created during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the album serves as a continuation of storytelling skills and a distinct retro vibe that defined his self-titled debut album, Virgil. The two releases share the music of a singer/songwriter who was reluctant to step into the spotlight until his 60th birthday. 

For the last decade and a half, Kevin Virgil Wallace has been focused on his work as founding director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai. Caring for the legacy of Beatrice Wood, the fascinating individuals who were part of her life and career, and those who created the Happy Valley Foundation, Wallace kept his work as a singer/songwriter secret from all but a small group of close friends. All of this changed when he realized that, at 60 years of age, he had limited time to make certain that the songs he had brought into the world would ever be heard.

“One of the things that I share with people at the Center is that the artist’s role is simply to be a conduit – about keeping the channel open and the muse involved,” Wallace says. “For that reason, I’ve always felt that the songs weren’t necessarily mine to keep hidden, so have long felt like I had some sort of secret life. But also, as director of the Center, I’m very much aware that we’re in the inspiration business. Every weekend, I talk to people who are impressed that Beatrice Wood continued to work and even thrived through her 80s and 90s. I realized that it was important that I do the same, as I know there are countless aging artists, musicians and writers who may be inspired to follow their dreams, even if they are feeling a little past their prime, or worse for wear.”

It was also important to be honest about his identity, as someone who grew up inspired by relatives who played what they called “hillbilly music” in the living room of their Southern Ohio farmhouse. For this reason, the album was released under his middle name “Virgil” – the name both his grandfather’s shared.

“I would never tell anyone my middle name, as it felt like sort of an old world, unhip name,” Wallace admits. “But it was the perfect name for sharing an authentic part of my identity.”

Having spent decades involved in the art world, for the most part hiding these roots, and passion for music that was not exactly on the cutting edge of the music scene, the term “Americana” began to be applied to the music he grew up with, and he found that there might indeed be an audience for the music he loved. The singer/songwriter tradition of his musical heroes was also again being appreciated.

Virgil's self-titled debut album of all-original songs was a celebration of his 60th birthday. Most of the tracks were recorded at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, with master guitarist Ken Emerson – who often performs at the Center – laying down long-rollicking, deep blue, and smoking hot lead guitar riffs. Wallace’s friend Andrew Ellison, who he began playing music with while in Middle School, recorded his drum parts remotely from his home in Northern Michigan. The vocals were recorded, and the album mixed, at Castaway 7 Studios in Ventura, and the album was mastered by Brian Ziegler at Radiance Studios in Ojai.

“The first Virgil album was born of just wondering if I could do it – a 60 year old guy sharing himself by playing and singing his songs,” Wallace says. “I recorded the second album, Waiting Home entirely in the studio and it is a different album in many ways. I was the songwriter, but worked more as arranger and producer, giving Ken Emerson more room to play, bringing in backing vocals with a singer recording in Austria. The more expansive influence of AM childhood from my youth, with soul and rockabilly came into play.

Looking back, it’s easy for Wallace to see how his career in art was born of a childhood fascination with the instruments his Uncle Claudie, Aunt Angeline and friends played in the living room of their Southern Ohio farmhouse: “Guitars, mandolin, banjo… the forms, materials and sounds seemed magical to me and led to my life’s work in the arts. It’s important for all of us to connect with our creativity, embrace dreams that fell by the wayside, and to inspire others. Just like Beatrice Wood, who didn't throw her first pot until she was forty, I want folks to know it's not too late to record that album, write that novel, or begin creating works for exhibition and performance."

Waiting Home is available everywhere for streaming and purchase, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. Wallace hopes sale of copies of the CD and downloads will assist in funding the Beatrice Wood Center for the Art, an activity of the Happy Valley Foundation, non-profit 501(c)(3).  For the complete Virgil story, read the extensive digibook at virgilsongs.com or visit the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts located at 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road Upper Ojai,California.                                                                                                        

https://beatricewoodstudio.com/products/virgil-waiting-home    

#virgilsongs #Kevin Wallace #beatricewood #beatrice wood #singer songwriter #creativity #embrace dreams #americana

[lpliketherecord]

Fusion by Beatrice Wood, 1995. She was 102 years old when she made this, how cool is that? 💕 #nofilter #ceramics #beatricewood #pottery #art #ojai #beatricewoodcenterforthearts https://www.instagram.com/p/B3l1yngnDYH/?igshid=c1vi8uj3mw54

#nofilter #ceramics #beatricewood #pottery #art #ojai #beatricewoodcenterforthearts

[99quotes]

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts. —Beatrice Wood

#quote #BeatriceWood #artist #america #art

[yorks391]

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