The Artist Spotlight Series is back for 2025! Public programming will take place at Namba Performing Arts Space in Downtown Ventura.
Spotlight Talks are meet-the-artist interviews that conclude the formal FOTM documentation process. Each public interview captures the development, achievements, reflections and personal experiences of an artist before a live audience. Attendees have the opportunity to interact with the artists, participate in a question and answer session, and view original work.
After each Spotlight talk artists participate in an intimate AfterGLOW dinner where patrons have the opportunity to socialize and connect with them in a more candid setting. Hosted by FOTM patrons, space is limited.
Please scroll down to see the lineup and RSVP.
Spotlight Series Tickets
General Public
Seniors
FOTM Members
AfterGLOW Fundraiser Tickets
General Public
FOTM Members
Spotlight Talks 2025
A Conversation with Jennifer Wolf
August 24, 2025 from 3:30 to 5:00pm
Focus on the Masters Artist Spotlight with Jennifer Wolf will take place at NAMBA Performing Arts Space. Click button for tickets and RSVP.
We expect this event to sell out.
Please reserve your seats ahead of time.
A Conversation with Stephen Edwards
October 5, 2025 from 3:00 to 4:30pm
Focus on the Masters Artist Spotlight with Stephen Edwards will take place at NAMBA Performing Arts Space. Click button for tickets and RSVP.
We expect this event to sell out.
Please reserve your seats ahead of time.
Upcoming Spotlight Talks
including those postponed during the Covid 19 pandemic
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2020 Spotlight Artists
Elyn Zimmerman
Works on Paper/Sculptor
In different ways, Elyn Zimmerman’s works on paper and site specific installations explore conditions of the natural world and celebrate images and materials of…
Jenchi Wu
Educator/Ceramist
A ceramics class changed Jenchi Wu’s life. Having emigrated from Taiwan in 1990, Jenchi studied at community colleges in Stockton and Pasadena, pursuing a curriculum that included courses in the arts. Once she…
Michael Cullen Todd
Sculptor
Michael Cullen Todd’s biography abounds with accolades: Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright Fellowships. Exhibits in major galleries throughout the US. His work is found in prestigious…
George Stuart
Historian/Sculptor
Mr. Stuart is a historian with a passion to create. The success of his three dimensional figures are the product of the artist’s exhaustive research…
Helle Scharling-Todd
Mosaic Artist
“Her mosaics are knockouts!” said FOTM Master Artist Carlisle Cooper of Helle Scharling-Todd, internationally known mosaic and glass artist. He praised her design and color sense, commenting that they are…
Chris Provenzano
Sculptor
The mystery of stones guides sculptor Chris Provenzano’s fingers. “There’s always a surprise within each stone…
Katherine Chang Liu
Painter
My work is like a map. Everything which goes in my mind that day sorts itself into some ideas. Working out those ideas, and consolidating them into something I feel rather…
Karen Lewis
Painter
World War II. A Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. A girl passes the time cutting out and coloring paper dolls. Is this when the artistic career of Karen K. Lewis began? She earned her BA at…
Howard Lamar
Painter
A playful, joyous quality infuses the art of Ojai artist Howard Lamar. His work can be found in private and public collections internationally. Lamar has come a long way from his early…
Joe Sohm
Photographer
Joseph Sohm’s guiding vision for this collaborative effort is a single question: “How do you photograph democracy?” This question fueled Sohm’s epic…..
2019 Spotlight Artists
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