In conjunction with his current exhibition, "Greenbelt,” at the Santa Paula Art Museum, Ojai artist Christopher Noxon will demonstrate his painting process inside the Museum on Saturday, August 24, 2024! Guests are invited to drop in anytime between 2 PM and 4 PM to observe and chat with Noxon and enjoy his exhibition. The painting demonstration is included with regular museum admission, which is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, and free for SPAM members, students, and children. Reservations are not required.

"Greenbelt: Interplay and Imagination on the Edge of Wildness" is on view now through September 8, 2024.

About the Artist:

Christopher Noxon paints and writes in Ojai, California. He began painting seriously in midlife, after raising kids and working as a journalist and illustrator in Los Angeles. Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara featured his work in the 2023 exhibit “Betty Lane & Christopher Noxon: From One Generation to the Next.” His work is in the permanent collection of the Ojai Valley Museum and he’s shown at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, the Santa Paula Art Museum, and the Beatrice Woods Center for the Arts. His writing and illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and New York Times Magazine; books include Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted?, Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up.