Schedule of events at the Porch Gallery:

Tuesday, Nov 5	Featured artist Josh Short arrives in Ojai to begin his cardboard installation in front of Modern Folk Living next to the Porch Gallery. Buy one or more raffle tickets at the MOB Shop or Porch gallery for a suggested donation of $5 to win an amazing Linus Mixte 3 Bike graciously donated by The Mob Shop!
Thursday, Nov 7 4 - 6PM	Artwalk in downtown Ojai, see venues here. Come by the Porch Gallery for a glass of wine and a preview of photgraphs by featured artist Enrico Natali and a selection of works by artists who have been juried into the show. Vina Lustado of Sol Haus Design moves her Tiny house into the Porch Gallery parking lot.
Saturday, Nov 9 4 - 10PM	4:00 - Panel discussion in front of Modern Folk Living. Featured panelists are renowned curator/critics Peter Frank, Shana Nys Dambrot, Ezhra Jean Black, artists Joshua Short, Joseph Umali Fernandez, and Deborah Munk, juror for the Ojai Art Festival. Juri Koll, director of the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, will moderate. 5:00 - Opening party at the The Porch Gallery. 5:00 - Fallen Fruit installation during the opening party at the Porch Gallery. 6:00ish - Ojai youth will interpret the theme of DISCARTED through spoken word around 6pm. Hosted by Aaron Gardner. Aaron Gardner will follow the poetry performance with his D.J. music 8:00 - Sea Stars will perform their soulful lullabies and harmonic magic around 8pm. Jolly Oyster food truck will serve food. The menu will include: Oyster tacos, Oyster Po Boys, Oyster bisque, Clam chowder, Stone crab claw spring rolls (Vietnamese style) and Scallop fried rice.

About the artists featured at the Porch Gallery:

Enrico Natali.
The photographer Enrico Natali came to Ojai in 1980 leaving a well-regarded career in photography behind and finding in Zen practices of meditation and the management of a life in the wilderness all the knowledge of the world he needed. In the last few years he has returned to looking at the world through a camera's lens and especially at the kind of forgotten landscapes that lie under bridges, in deserted industrial sites, or among the ruins of highway construction. In the long series from which these works are taken, he turned to the ever-changing street paintings, from illegal graffiti to sponsored public murals, as they settle into the often abandoned, waste-ridden and decaying surroundings of Los Angeles in which they sit. If you look hard enough, all the visual accidents in these pictures seem essential to the moment they capture -- the bare spot on a peeling wall, the remains of a rusty standpipe in a corner, the echoes of a search for paradise that ring between the noble thought on a mural and the commercial name of an adjacent spa. In this way, Natali's two great passions -- meditation and observation -- come together: the pictures invite you to look, as he did, at each of these found incidents as grounded moments in time, in which all things are made to belong together by the local artistry, aspiration, pride and imagination that makes art among the wastes of a city's landscape. Enrico's photographs will be exhibited at the Porch Gallery, 310 Matilija St from November 7 through 25.

Josh Short
Josh Short's art explores contemporary myth, ritual, and invention within the American cultural landscape. The American warrior myth, muscle cars, consumer appliances, punk rock and biker culture are common themes found in my participatory installations and performance-based sculpture. Josh also attempts to remove the role of spectator and blur the line between audience and artwork. This method echoes the all-American spectacle of pro-wrestling-The wrestlers, the ring, and the audience, have a shared role in the performance, creating an exaggerated expression of our inner desires, beliefs, and emotions. Josh's performance-based artworks hope to embody a rebel spirit that can provoke conversations around sub-cultures that historically, "buck the system", "stick it to the man", or challenge the cultural landscape that governs our everyday experience. His art champions waste, escapism, the apocalypse and forms of regional innovation bred by desperation as the thread from which the American cultural quilt is sewn. The Ojai Art Festival has invited Josh to create an on-site installation during our opening weekend November 8 - 10 next to the Porch Gallery at 310 Matilija St.

Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit is an ongoing art collaboration that began with creating maps of the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles and other cities. Their participatory projects have expanded to include Public Fruit Jams in which they invite citizens to bring homegrown or public fruit and join in communal jam-making; Nocturnal Fruit Forages, nighttime neighborhood fruit tours; Public Fruit Tree Adoptions that invite the public to plant trees on the margins of private property. Fallen Fruit’s visual images include an ongoing series of public art projects, museum installations and media works that explore the social and political implications of our relationship to fruit and world around us. The artists of Fallen Fruit think of fruit as the lens by which they look at the world. More at www.fallenfruit.org or facebook.com/fallenfruit. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world.

Ojai Mulberry Rye is the latest Neighborhood Infusions created by Fallen Fruit in collaboration with Ojai Beverage Company for OAF 2013. The Porch Gallery is the location for the public participatory performance hosted by David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit in which tastes of local mulberry infused rye are served to the public also with social prompts that question childhood memories and emotional connections to fruit. An ongoing project by Fallen Fruit in which local fruit is infused into a distilled spirit and name it for the surrounding neighborhood. One of the questions that interests us in thinking about local places is to determine what the essence of that neighborhood is, to think about its unique qualities connect community. The question Neighborhood Infusions asks is tinged with a bit of irony: can you capture the essence of a place in a bottle? It is served by docents (rather than bartenders) who take time to interpret the work for those interested in consuming it.

Sol Hous Design's Tiny House
Sol Haus Design is a featured venue for the Ojai Art Festival and will be located at the Porch Gallery Ojai during the opening weekend of the Ojai Art Festival at 310 E. Matilija Street. Vina Lustado, the owner of Sol Haus Design, describes her home as a self-designed and self-builit home with help from other local.......

Vina’s Tiny House is a self-designed and self-built home with help from other local craftsmen. It reflects her core values of living simply and lightly on this Earth. For her, it is a way to show others the joys and freedom that comes with living small.

With a cost of approximately $35,000, the Tiny House is the size of a parking space based on trailer size of 8' x 20'. The house is designed to be wholly self-sufficient with solar panels, propane gas fireplace and composting toilet. Vina’s favorite part of the house is the bedroom loft, which is bathed in natural light. With a round window and large skylight, she can gaze at the moon and the stars before going to sleep.

On Nov. 9th and 11th (at 12:30pm both days), the Ojai Film Festival will be screening "TINY: A story About Living Small" a beautiful documentary film by a couple who builds their own house from scratch. Vina's Tiny House will be part of the event. See the Film Festival's website for details.

Raffle ticket: Win a chance to get a free consultation from Sol Haus Design so you can have your own tiny house. BONUS: A 68 page photo book that documents the construction process of Vina's Tiny House. Lots of information on building methods and material specification during every phase of construction. http://blur.by/1bG1P99

Sea Stars
From LA to England, Austin and beyond, Sea Stars have traveled the World and now reside in the mountainous lands of Southern California.

Whether from your stereo or a live concert, the sound of Sea Stars pulls you into a mystical realm of dreams and stardust. A place where the heart is an Emperor and the fears are but a fool. A place where Love is understood and judgment is put to rest. Whether a lullaby to ease your thoughts or a hopeful word to awaken you, Sea Stars share the soundtrack to the heart.. and all matters of it.

The Jolly Oyster
Jolly Oyster is an oyster and clam farm located in Baja California. Here in the San Buenaventura State Beach Park in Ventura, California we've set up a fun outdoors area that allows you to:
- Buy our fresh oysters (Pacifics and Kumamotos) and clams (Manilas) to go, farmers' market style.
- Stay and shuck / cook your own at our picnic tables and BBQ grills right on the beach.
- Dine 'al fresco' from their food truck (Fri-Sun).

Aaron Gardner
Aaron Gardner is a poet, educator, and father of two phenomenal children. He has been heavily involved in the spoken word scene since 1999, and was the Oakland Grand Slam Champion in 2010. Aaron continues his work locally with young poets to help them discover their voices and the power contained therein. Aaron Gardner will follow his spoken word Ojai Youth Poety Performance with his D.J. music skills from 6:00-8:00.

To find out more details about the festival, please visit the OAF website.