Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
First Friday Fun Fest will be celebrated at Tehachapi Treasure Trove, on Friday evening, July 3, from 5 to 8. The featured artist for July will be Vicki Braslow. Vicki specializes in landscapes and old buildings. Her preferred medium is oil. Join us to greet Vicki, enjoy food and wine, and listen to music by Art Larson on clarinet.
A Bakersfield native, Vicki Braslow and her husband Geoffrey moved to Tehachapi about 10 1/2 years ago after living in the Bay Area for 20 years. In addition to her work as a Tehachapi artist, some of you may also know Vicki from Henry’s Home for Less or Acme Driving School from which she retired last February.
An active artist and an Alpine Forest resident, Vicki says she discovered a whole new love of nature’s beauty in the Tehachapi Mountains, and that along with a love of color and nature has inspired her to create landscapes in oil that some think are photographs due to her detailed work.
Vicki has always loved art, although she has had no formal art education. After moving to Tehachapi she began to more actively venture into the area’s art community after friend and fellow artist Flo Sussell saw some of the oil paintings she had done on her own some 40 years ago. Along with her late husband, Geoffrey, Flo encouraged Vicki to paint again. Flo subsequently introduced her to Mel White and the Tehachapi Art Center, which was a catalyst in Vicki’s reawakening interest working on canvas.
“My painting world opened up when I began taking lessons from Cyrene Crank eight years go after taking her oils workshop at TAC,” Vicki says. “I have learned so much from Cyrene; she has made me the artist I am today.”
Happily active most days of the week now with her art, one way or the other, Vicki says, “I owe what I do today as a professional artist to three great ladies in my life: Flo Sussell, Mel White, and Cyrene Crank. I thank them for showing me this wonderful creative side of myself and making me believe in myself and my art.” Vicki’s work is permanently on display at Tehachapi Treasure Trove.
Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 E Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Hours are daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Sundays 11 to 4). Be sure to stop by and see our collection of uncommonly eclectic and unusually unique stuff. Remember we also carry an extensive line of art and craft supplies and artist services along with books and music. For additional information on any of our activities, classes and events, please call 661-822-6794 or visit http://www.facebook.com/Tehachapi Treasure Trove.
A fantastic end-time prophetic teaching will take place at the Tehachapi Christian Store at 6 p.m. on July 3rd, as we are blessed to have Dr. Sherlock Bally return and share with us. Dr. Bally is the Knesset Liaison to North America and the Caribbean. Knesset is the Parliament of Israel. This gives him a unique and relevant perspective to current events in Israel, the Middle East, and America. He is one of the most informed and prolific authorities on end-time prophecy and the application of prophetic truth to personal life.
He will discuss America in end-time prophecy. He has authored several books which will be available for sale. There will be a time for questions and answers. You are guaranteed to be blessed, and you are guaranteed to learn a lot. Refreshments will be served. There is limited seating and it will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. The last time Dr. Bally was here, the store was packed and it was standing room only out the front door. If you have any further questions, please contact Susan at 661-822-0626.”, the store is located at 108 E. Tehachapi Blvd.
July’s First Friday at the Tehachapi Museum features an exhibit about longtime Tehachapi barber and veteran country music pioneer Jimmy Phillips. Phillips, who helped develop the «Bakersfield Sound» in the late 1950s and ‘60s, grew up in a farm labor camp in Arvin and learned to drum with a pair of drumsticks on a metal folding chair. He first started drumming professionally when he was only 15 years old with a band called Jolly Jody and the Go Daddies.
On display will be items from Phillip’s amazing music career including his induction plaque to the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame in Sacramento, California, and many other awards, record albums, and photos that were recently returned to him after being on display in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Stop by to see the display on a Tehachapi resident who greatly influenced the “Bakersfield Sound” in country music.
Continuing on display in the museum’s Family Case is the wonderful collection of photographs and a timeline about the Freeman family whose ancestors first came to Tehachapi in 1869. The woodcarvings of Hooks Anderson and the artwork of Gail Jenkins continues to be featured in the Community Case.
Appetizers and beverages will be served from 5-8 p.m. The museum is located at 310 S. Green Street. For more information, call the Museum at (661) 822-8152.
Fourth of July celebration begins First Friday, July 3 at Gallery ‘n’ Gifts. Guest artist, Jim Pugh will be sharing his outstanding works with Tehachapi. Once again a Gallery ‘n’ Gifts show you will not want to miss.
Pugh currently resides in Bakersfield with his wife, Rev. Karen Stoffers-Pugh and is a native Californian. He spent most of his youth in Texas and New Mexico. While living in Santa Fe, NM, as a child he became fascinated with the Native American culture and symbolism. Family day trips to the deserts, visiting pueblos and ancient sites of the people of the southwest intrigued him. It was on these day trips Pugh saw his first pictographs and paleography and his interest and imagination was sparked.
At a young age Pugh showed an aptitude for painting and drawing and was self-taught throughout his young adult life. Later he took lessons with Gereon Rios, as anaccomplished artist, who directed the Sonora Art Academy in Tuolumne County in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
He attended the academy for several years, under Rios tutelage and then began to explore his Primitive Impressionism style using ancient symbols of pictographs, paleography and images of the Lascaux Caves of France.
Pugh works in oils on canvas and wood, equally. “Creating art relaxes me and puts me in a different world. I want to share with others the arts thousands of years gone by. We need to enjoy and protect the arts surrounding us, both modern and ancient”stated Pugh.
Gallery ‘n’ Gifts is located at 100 Tehachapi Blvd. For further information call 822-6062. Regular shop hours are 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. First Friday show, featuring Jim Pugh is from 5 to P.M. Everyone is invited to come meet and chat with Pugh. As always savory and sweet snacks are a part of the evening festivities.
