AV Artist Bios – Ojai Music Festival

Sally England is an artist well known for her large-scale knotted works that discover the intersection of fabric, type, and house. Drawing on conventional craft methods akin to knotting, weaving, and twining, she creates sculptural compositions which can be refined, tactile, and architecturally resonant, usually incorporating supplies akin to rope, twine, ceramic, and stained glass. Working totally on a fee foundation, Sally’s artworks are represented in resorts, eating places, and personal collections internationally. In addition to her studio follow, she shares her love of handwork by instructing artwork camps and workshops in her hometown of Ojai, California. Originally from the Midwest, England earned her undergraduate diploma from Grand Valley State University in West Michigan and attended the MFA in Applied Craft & Design program at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.

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Floating Garden. 2026. Upcycled pool hose and wire. Varying sizes.

Joel Fox lives with Jennifer Day on their compound in Ojai, California.  Joel attended CalArts and was the primary graduate from their Integrated Media program in 1997.  He made segments for numerous youngsters’s tv exhibits and created video campaigns for Vans, Levi’s and different manufacturers. Joel began making spinners a number of years in the past, in response to the wind blowing everywhere and getting away with it.

Ben Grace is an artist and designer with a background in structure and set design, exploring the intersection of sunshine, nature, and type. His work focuses on creating lighting installations and sculptures that blur the road between artwork and performance, utilizing sustainable supplies to evoke a way of surprise and connection again to nature. Through his creations Ben goals to fostering stillness, reflection, and a deeper appreciation of the pure world.

Rosemary Holliday Hall is a transdisciplinary artist working throughout set up, sculpture, ceramics, sound, shifting picture, and efficiency. Her work explores ecology and relationships between pure programs and the constructed atmosphere. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA with a minor in Environmental Horticulture from the University of California, Davis. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Her follow usually consists of collaborations with scientists by way of residencies and research-based fellowships, together with the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis Artist Researcher in Residence, Nemeth Art Center Artist Residency, Taft Gardens Artist Researcher in Residence, UC Davis Bilinski Fellowship, Ex.Change: Artists and Scientists on Climate Change, the University of Chicago Art, Science & Culture Grant, the Leroy Neiman Oxbow Fellowship, and the Manetti Shrem Royal Drawing School Fellowship. 

Bhagvati Khalsa is an artist based mostly in Ojai, California. Raised inside a multicultural atmosphere, her artistic perspective is formed by layered cultural traditions, methods of seeing, and modes of constructing. With formal coaching in vogue design, her work is knowledgeable by an understanding of development, programs, and the way type strikes by way of house and the physique. Twelve years in the past, she started working with ceramics, grounding her follow in tactility, time, and materials presence. Alongside this, her images mission Pattern Plotting explores rhythm, repetition, and visible construction—mapping patterns present in on a regular basis environments as a manner of observing order, instinct, and lived expertise. Across mediums, Bhagvati approaches making as an act of care and inquiry, permitting course of, repetition, and a spotlight to information the work. Her follow usually displays themes of curiosity, belonging, and the quiet rituals embedded in each day life.

Cassandra C. Jones is a multidisciplinary artist, the founder and director of the Art in Nature Residency at Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, and the curator of The Mega Gallery, a storefront window mission in downtown Ojai. Following 22 years as a digital artist, she has shifted her studio follow to creating solely affirmational art work in no matter medium feels obligatory till the present administration is out of workplace. Jones holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Having exhibited in museums and galleries all through the USA and Europe, her present studio follow now evolves alongside her dedication to assist construct a extra related artwork ecosystem throughout the Central California Coast.

After discovering kelp’s important significance and alarming decline in 2021, Marie McKenzie shifted her focus from imaginative seascapes to underwater visions, finally main her to confront her fears of the ocean by way of freediving. This transformative, therapeutic journey impressed her current work and clarified her mission to share the fantastic thing about these “sequoias of the sea,” advocating for his or her restoration and safety. By illuminating the fantastic thing about kelp forests, she strives to foster connection and contribute to their restoration by way of her partnership with SeaTrees, a nonprofit group in Southern California that works with coastal communities to reforest the ocean.

Marie lives and works in Ojai, California. She studied portray on the University of Kansas and has been portray for almost three many years. Her most up-to-date solo exhibition was in Los Angeles in 2021, with earlier solo exhibits in 2017, 2014, and 2013. Her work has been included in a number of group exhibits, together with at Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, in addition to in museums such because the Ojai Valley Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Santa Paula Art Museum, and the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. Marie was just lately awarded an arts grant from the Ventura County Arts Council. Her mix of summary and sensible oil portray combines classical methods with the unseen subject material of our kelp forests.

Mary Neville is a Southern California native and modern summary painter working from her studio in Ojai. Rooted within the mild, shade, and openness of the West Coast, her large-scale work have been exhibited on the Santa Paula Art Museum, the Ojai Valley Museum, and different regional establishments, and are held in personal and company collections.

Before dedicating herself absolutely to nice artwork, Mary constructed a profession in vogue, inside design, and structure — a multidisciplinary background that continues to tell her sensitivity to scale, composition, and the emotional resonance of shade. She holds a level from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and has accomplished a residency at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Mary is presently represented by The Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, and 10 West Gallery and Domecil in Santa Barbara.

Christopher Noxon paints and writes in Ojai, California. Solo exhibitions embrace “Roundies” at Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation (Ojai, 2026), “Terra Incognita” at Oxford House Projects (Los Angeles, 2025), “Greenbelt: Interplay & Imagination at the Edge of Wildness” on the Santa Paula Art Museum (2024) and “Betty Lane & Christopher Noxon: From One Generation to the Next” at Sullivan Goss Gallery (Santa Barbara, 2023). His writing and illustrations have appeared within the New Yorker, the Atlantic and New York Times Magazine; books embrace Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up.

Rebecca Odes is an interdisciplinary artist working in Ojai, California and New York City. Her collaborative music and sound initiatives embrace Odes (Merge Records) Love Child (12XU) and THRESHING FLOOR, a collaboration with Gretchen Gonzales, Alan Licht and Wolf Eyes. She has exhibited work on the Every Woman Biennial, The New Museum and the Phoenix Center for the Contemporary Arts.

Brittany Sanders makes work, books and movies. Her art work is in lots of everlasting collections together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Getty Museum, Yale University and the New York Public Library. She has acquired personal commissions from the Gund Family and the artist Maya Lin.  Brittany Sanders’ art work focuses on themes of the temporal second, magnificence and reality. She graduated with Honors from Brown University, double majoring in Comparative Literature and History of Art and Architecture. She lives in Ojai, California.

Carol Shaw-Sutton is a fiber artist who has been exhibiting her work for many years nationally and internationally. She is Professor Emeritus from Cal State Long Beach’s School of the Arts and has lived in Ojai for 11 years.  Her work crosses boundaries from textiles to sculpture, utilizing pure supplies to discover cycles of progress, transformation and historical data. “Womb Room” is an area for renewal and reduction from the skin chaos of our world.  An area to return to our centered life pressure and movement state of oneness……come residence.