How Art Revived The California Missions
Thursday, April 13, 2023
An Art Foundation of Santa Barbara Lunch, Learn, and Rarely-Available Tour Event!
Featuring the history of artists Henry Chapman Ford & Edwin Deakin
and how their paintings of the California Missions brought attention to help preserve the missions for future generations.
Thank you
To our esteemed speakers Jeremy Tessmer and Monica Orozco
for their enlightening presentations on Henry Chapman Ford & Edwin Deakin, respectively
A special thank you to our sponsors
Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation
for enabling students from the Visual Arts & Design Academy (“VADA”), Santa Barbara High School to attend and learn about Henry Chapman Ford, Edwin Deakin and early California art history.
Montecito Bank & Trust
for underwriting and providing a special dessert at the Santa Barbara Mission
Thank you to Visual Arts & Design Academy (“VADA”) students from Santa Barbara High School!
We look forward to future workshops together. Photo Credit: Alma Rose Middleton
Art Foundation of Santa Barbara board members with speaker Jeremy Tessmer, 2nd from left.
Photo Credit: Dirk Brandts
Art Foundation of Santa Barbara board members and guests.
Photo Credit: Dirk Brandts.
Thank you to Dr. Monica Orozco and Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library for inviting the Art Foundation and its guests to visit the archive and view their wonderful collection of Edwin Deakin paintings.
Thank you to the Santa Barbara Club for sharing its collection of Henry Chapman Ford pen and ink drawings and for a lovely luncheon! Thank you to Dirk Brandts for invitation design and media photos.