Art from 11 Central Coast-based artists will be on display in an upcoming group exhibition, Sedgwick Reserve: A Conservation Story, at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang.
The exhibit is scheduled to open in the museum’s Valley Oak Gallery on Saturday, April 8, and will remain up through Monday, Oct. 16. An artist reception will take place on Sunday, April 16, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Painters, photographers, and other participating artists in the show were tasked to submit pieces of various media centered on the Sedgwick Nature Reserve, located in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Valley. The diverse reserve hosts multiple habitats and is one of seven reserves managed by the UCSB Natural Reserve System.
The Wildling Museum’s executive director, Stacey Otte-Demangate, described the Sedgwick Nature Reserve as “unique for the amount of serious academic research it supports, particularly with native oaks.”
“We love to highlight local conservation areas and Sedgwick is a major one,” Otte-Demangate said in press materials.
The new exhibition’s 11 featured artists are Whitney Abbott, Chris Chapman, Dennis Curry, Camille Dellar, Bill Dewey, Bruce Everett, Russ Hunziker, John Iwerks, Manny Lopez, Mark Oliver, and Nina Warner.
To find out more about Sedgwick Reserve: A Conservation Story, call the Wildling Museum at (805) 686-8315 or visit wildlingmuseum.org. The museum is located at 1511 Mission Drive, unit B, Solvang.
This article appears in Apr 6-13, 2023.