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Reginald Pole, Helen Burton, Beatrice Wood and Katherine Louis, circa 1930 (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIy_Zbwjp2E/?igshid=171slu2vumcub

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Crazy Santa Ana winds blowing, with the anniversary of the Thomas Fire. Southern California Edison says there will be controlled power outages. If we can just get through the last month of 2020… (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgXrC-jk13/?igshid=sk25wfur301f

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Shush little tiger, Beato has something to say... with Tippi Hedren and Ram Pravesh Singh (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CITrTbsDZoA/?igshid=1v0aeqmjnfcy3

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Beatrice Wood with Glen Ellison, Scottish Baritone known for his renditions of She’s The Lass For Me, Roamin’ in the Gloamin, and others, as well as his ability to recite with mastery of humor and pathos. Date unknown, though it was definitely another time altogether. (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8UH-tDpub/?igshid=144n4yfnrteup

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Works by Beatrice Wood, featured in the window of Gump’s Department Store in San Francisco, 1946 (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxvCrcDBwT/?igshid=1hnhz29220h78

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Beatrice Wood, Changing Tire, 1930, graphite, color pencil and watercolor on paper (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHMyzsODbwl/?igshid=1qifg33d8g3qx

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Love is often complicated, but it is all ways worthwhile. Beatrice Wood with Ram Pravesh Singh, Happy Valley, 1986 (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGJbnJTjROA/?igshid=fdrsbtzonazg

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Lauren Hanson, Animals of the Nile III, Salt-fired stoneware, 21.5" h x 9" dia, $550.  Featured in one of our current exhibitions: Lauren Hanson: Natural Wonders. There is a link to the entire exhibition on our homepage at http://www.beatricewood.com, along with a link to our other current exhibition, Nature’s Bounty, featuring members of the Ventura County Potters’ Guild. (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF0EyceDgJS/?igshid=1477vj6mliln1

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Dear Friends, The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, housed in Beatrice Wood’s former home and studio, is an activity of the Happy Valley Foundation. We operate without an endowment and are completely dependent upon income from art sales, educational programming, grants and donations. Being closed to the public presents a major economic challenge, however we are continuing to digitize the archives, and do everything we can to fulfill our work as an educational activity, while caring for Beatrice Wood’s legacy. Please consider becoming a member to help us with our mission – or donate any amount – as there is no guarantee that we will exist in the future, if we aren’t funded today. Visit www.beatricewood.com for more information. Thank you! (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFu8khHDlxr/?igshid=qtly0rzvy2qh

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Installation images of Nature’s Bounty, featuring members of the Ventura County Potters’ Guild. We have this exhibition, as well as Lauren Hanson’s Natural Wonders exhibition, installed in hopes that we can reopen to visitors soon. Until then, both exhibitions can be viewed online. Links on our homepage at www.beatricewood.com (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFpy-uLD3DY/?igshid=11mpm3n18qqge

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Communal meals at special events and workshops have been such an important part of the experience at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts. We hope that we can welcome you back soon, but until then... remember that Life is an Art! (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFoGVrGjXB6/?igshid=156j1r30okil7

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Beato in front of her McAndrew home, studio and showroom in Ojai, 1959. (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFffqaPDNAu/?igshid=12z2jy0sj89bd

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"Reality was my rebellion against my mother, a dominating, aristocratic woman who devoted herself to protecting me from life—both its miseries and ecstasies. Determined I should remain a virgin—perhaps forever—she dressed me in lace, taught me to curtsy, and to remain silent unless spoken to. As my dear but rather passive father stood by, my mother and her two sisters, my aunts, attempted to turn me into a porcelain doll. But I was no doll beneath my childhood lace. At fourteen, my secret accomplices had been Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, de Maupassant, Colette, Shakespeare, Freud, and Oscar Wilde. I have no idea how I found out books by such writers existed, but I lost my virtue reading Madame Bovary by a spirit lamp." -Excerpt from I Shock Myself, The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood (at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSGKobjDNu/?igshid=su69m1znzysv

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Beato with her beloved dog Nehru Wood https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-0_11D9hX/?igshid=1umg8tgqjsk4g