The Santa Paula Art Museum will be giving away free Art To-Go Bags on Saturday, April 17, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. April’s free art bag will celebrate the Museum’s new outdoor Art Park inspired by Ventura artist Hiroko Yoshimoto’s painting Biodiversity #22! Art projects included in the bag will explore local creatures and their habitats, species endangerment, and the role that humans can play in protecting our environment. Supplies will include clay, paint, macrame rope and more! Kids will also have the chance to win a prize by submitting a photo of their completed artwork!

The free bags will be available via a drive-thru only pick up in the parking lot behind the Santa Paula Art Museum starting at 10:00 a.m. (while supplies last). Please enter the parking lot from 10th Street and follow the posted signs and directions from staff, and please wear a face mask.

The Museum’s monthly, free Art To-Go Bags are made possible by our sponsors: The Smith-Hobson Foundation, Ventura County Community Foundation, Brianne McGrath, Rotary Club of Santa Paula, Kai and John Blanchard, Fran and Jim Christiansen, Patti Fallini, Kathy Good, Laurence Holmer, Willa and Earl McPhail, Michael Pulliam, Santa Paula VFW Post #2043, John Woods, and Dorcas Thille.

HEADER IMAGE: Biodiversity #22 (detail of left side of diptych) by Hiroko Yoshimoto, 2013, oil on wood panel, 30 x 30 inches, Collection of the Santa Paula Art Museum.