News
Upcoming Projects
Japanese Internment Camps
Brent Winebrenner; Jim Campos; Marcia Ota; Jody Thomas of the Carpinteria Community Library; and Jayme Yahr, Currurator of Carpinteria Valley Museum of Historyare in the process of applying for a grant with the California Civil Liberties Education Program to create a podcast and documentary of the effects of the Japanese Internment camps Carpinteria.
Voces de Old Town Carpinteria, Part II
Voces de Old Town Carpinteria, the documentary created by Directors Suzanne Requejo, Leslie A. Westbrook, and Brent Winebrenner has been met with tremendous accolades. Currently, a second-part is in development by Brent Winebrenner and Jim Campos. The two are conducting interviews with students who experienced integration in 1947. Stay tuned!
2025 The Diversity of Carpinteria Mural
We have enlisted the outstanding artist, Rick Sharp, to create a mural depicting the scope of the Carpinteria Valley from the Chumash to the subsequent migrations of peoples who make it the paradise we love. Rick is a Carpinteria resident. His work has been selected six times for the annual Santa Barbara Fiesta poster. He admires the art of Daniel Sayre Groesbeck whose work graces the Santa Barbara Courthouse’s Mural Room. It is his desire to create a mural worthy of Groesbeck’s for the Carpinteria community.
The good news is that thanks to your generous support we can execute this mural. Our biggest obstacle is selecting the perfect wall on which to display it. We are still working on this aspect of the project.
A very rough working sketch of Rick’s eventual mural is below. The final version will be in color with historical people added.
2028 Alcazar Theatre Historic Mural
Stay tuned for more information.
The Carpinteria Cultural Foundation (CCF)
celebrated the unveiling of its first mural on September 12, 2023 at Aliso Elementary School
Tim Bliss, Rich Medel and Jim Campos cut the blue ribbon! (Photo by Robin Karlsson)
The Carpinteria Cultural Foundation (CCF) celebrated the unveiling of its first mural on September 12, 2023 at Aliso Elementary School along Carpinteria Avenue. While the CCF began under a different name, and with the goal of highlighting the cultural contributions of Carpinteria's Latino community, the organization has since expanded its vision. Going forward, the CCF would like to "paint the town" with a series of murals depicting the history of the many diverse communities that have contributed to our city's evolution, and other themes.
Sponsors of the Aliso Mural were the Aliso School, Neil Ablitt, John Berryhill of Miller & Berryhill Law Firm, Tim & Ginny Bliss, Graciela Barnes, Bob & Margaret Burkey, Lisa Blades, Carlos Bren, Jim & Valerie Campos, Deborah Dentler, Jesus & Teri Gonzales, M. B. Hanrahan, Paul Johanson, Joe Macias, Amanda McIntyre, Marcella Meharg, Brian Mootz, Serge Morales, Superintendent Diana Rigby & the Carpinteria Unified School Board of Education, Ross Robins, Bonnie Rubenstein, Rebecca Rutledge, Terry Schrivner, Robert Stokes, Shirley Strikler, Virginia Tryon, Leslie Andrea Westbrook, Eileen White, Brent Winebrenner, and Andrew Wissing.
Suzanne, Chuy, Artist of the Aliso Mural M.B. Hanrahan, Rich, Jim and Natalia, im-mediately after the mural was approved by Superintendent Diana Rigby and the CUSD Board of Trustees. (Also Monica, above!)
M.B. Hanrahan at work creating the mural.