To see previous videos of demos recorded for WVAG, click on the YouTube link below.
Dinner Demos are held at the Los Robles Greens - 299 S. Moorpark Rd, Thousand Oaks
Doors open at 5:30.
$30 for members and $37 for non members.
The last day to register is the Friday (5:00 PM) before the upcoming Dinner Demo.
Cancellations must be made no later than the Friday before the dinner demo to receive a refund. Contact Dennis Griffin.
May 7, 2024
Dinner Demo with Ray Hunter
Watercolor
Last day to register is May 3rd at 5:00 PM
Ray Hunter was born and raised in Montana, where he graduated in 1971 with a degree in Art Education from Eastern Montana College (now called Montana State University--Billings.) He lived in the Pacific Northwest for over 15 years before moving to Santa Barbara, California in 1997. He is represented by Waterhouse Gallery in Santa Barbara. He is an artist member of the California Art Club, and his paintings have been included in the Gold Medal Exhibitions several times. He is a signature member of the California Watercolor Association, the Paint America Artists, and the American Society of Marine Artists. He is a member of the Oak Group in Santa Barbara, a group of artists which dedicates work to the preservation of open lands and preserving nature. His work has been shown in numerous local, regional and national shows, and he won the Grand Prize in 2007 in the Paint the Parks competition.
June 4, 2024
Dinner Demo with Gavin Glakas
Last day to register is May 31st at 5:00 PM
Gavin Glakas grew up in Bethesda, MD, and started drawing about the time he started walking. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
After graduation, Glakas spent a year and a half working on Capitol Hill as a Senate staffer. He had planned to go to law school, but after an eight-month illness culminating in the removal of a tumor from his lung at the age of 24, he decided to pursue his lifelong ambition of a career as an artist.
Glakas began showing his work in galleries almost immediately and spent five years studying with Danni Dawson and Robert Liberace.
His paintings hang in the permanent collections of the United States Capitol, the Virginia State Capitol, the CIA, universities, museums and numerous other collections both public and private.
Glakas is represented by Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA and Charleston, SC, and Palm Avenue Fine Art in Sarasota, FL.
He has won numerous honors for his artwork, including awards from the Portrait Society of America, the Art Renewal Center, the Plein Air Salon and the Butler Institute of American Art. His paintings have been featured on NBC News and in The Washington Post, as well as Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, Plein Air, International Artist, The American Scholar, Art Business News, The Strand and Elan magazines, and exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the country.
Glakas teaches painting and drawing at Georgetown University Medical School and the Yellow Barn Studio. He lives in McLean, VA, with his wife, Jasmine, and two barnstorming sons, Nico and Rory.
September 3
Dinner Demo with Rhythm and Hues
THE STORY OF RHYTHM & HUES
Rhythm & Hues was 34 years in the making. Helane Freeman and Gary Ballen met in 1989 working for different record labels on the same historic project, Eazy E and NWA.
Helane was the art director for Priority Records where she designed over 100 album covers including “The California Raisins”, “Frank Sinatra” and most notably the “Straight Outta Compton” cover. Gary worked at Ruthless Records as a touring stage and production manager and then worked at the label for the next six years.
Thirty-three years later on a sunny Southern California morning, Helane was participating with a group of plein air painters painting a ukulele group she heard about at the Ventura Harbor. Gary was leading the “Cool Hand Ukes” in a wide-open field at the Harbor Cove Café, with families eating on park benches, children dancing and seagulls flying over the sea of boats.
When Helane realized it was her old friend Gary playing his ukulele, and after catching up on the last 30 years, he encouraged her to play her Cajon during the weekly “Cool Hand Ukes” ukulele jam. One thing led to another and eventually, they started performing together and formed Gary and the Grooves, a three piece classic rock group that immediately started to entertain the Oxnard and Ventura music lovers.
Unbeknownst to either Helane or Gary, Rhythm & Hues started to cultivate, and the art and music started blending. Helane decided to paint, with her hands, while playing percussion on the canvas while singing, playing a stomp box with her left foot and a tambourine on her right. Gary would sing and play guitar to classic rock hits, and Rhythm & Hues was born.
You have to see it to believe
Reserve & Pay for your Dinner Demo
Members $30 and Guests $37.
Reservations are required and must be made OR cancelled no later than Friday (5:00 PM) prior to the event.
Dinner / Demos
Westlake Village Art Guild
The WVAG's monthly buffet dinner and art demos are held the first Tuesday of each month from September through June.
Location
West Ballroom
Los Robles Greens
299 S. Moorpark Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91361
Schedule
5:30 PM Check-In Opens
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner
7:00 PM Demonstration
8:30 PM End
Great food, demos and friends at the WVAG Dinner Demos!
