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
Adrielle Rose
Surrealist
Adrielle, daughter of renowned realist painter Carol Rosenak, displayed exceptional artistic talent as a young child and drew tremendous attention from experts in child art. She spent…
A Conversation with Hilary Brace
October 13, 2019 – Hilary Brace
Hilary Brace creates other-worldly meteorological landscapes that envelop the viewer.
A Conversation with Mick Reinman
September 29, 2019 – Mick Reinman
Mick Reinman has been described as a painter’s painter. His powerfully colored compositions build on the human figure and landscape in its most basic and architectonic form.
A Conversation with Ichiro Irie
August 18, 2019 – Ichiro Irie
Ichiro Irie is a multidisciplinary artist, as well as curator, gallery owner and professor at Oxnard College.
A Conversation with Omar D’Leon
July 21, 2019 Spotlight Series: Omar D’Leon is from Managua, Nicaragua and is regarded as one of the most renowned Nicaraguan painters and poets. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Nicaragua under his mentor Rodrigo Peñalba who introduced European Impressionistic painting and magical realism qualities into Nicaraguan art.
A Conversation with Carlos Grasso
June 16, 2019 – Carlos Grasso
Carlos Grasso studied both visual arts and music as a child while growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A Conversation with Peggy Pownall
May 19, 2019 – Peggy Pownall
Peggy Pownall is a mixed media painter working as an Artist-In-Residence at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo since 2008
A Conversation with Erika Lizée
April 28, 2019 – Erika Lizée
Erika Lizée is a perceptive artist whose work reflects, in her words, an ever-shifting and nebulous boundary between what is known and unknown.
A Conversation with Rafael Perea de la Cabada
February 17, 2019 – Rafael Perea de la Cabada
Rafael Perea de la Cabada is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is steeped in the artist’s rich cultural heritage.
A Conversation with Astrid Preston
March 17, 2019 – Astrid Preston
Astrid Preston has been called “one of America’s most important contemporary landscape painters.”
2019 Spotlight Artists
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