Experience Ojai artist Christopher Noxon’s solo exhibition, “Greenbelt,” with Noxon as your guide! Inspired by Fauvist landscapes, Huichol yarn paintings, and activists working to protect open space, Noxon’s “Greenbelt” explores the Santa Paula landscape through a phantasmagorical lens, processing the unique interplay of wildness, development, and agriculture resulting from Ventura County’s greenbelt policies. The talk is included with regular museum admission, which is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, and free for SPAM members, students, and children.

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.