Mission Statement

The mission of the Santa Paula Art Museum is to preserve and share Santa Paula's artistic heritage; and to educate and engage the community through collection, exhibition, interpretation, programming and outreach.
 

About Us

The Santa Paula Art Museum was established as a not-for-profit organization to preserve and share Santa Paula's artistic heritage known as the Santa Paula Collection. After considering many sites, the Museum will be located at the comer of Ojai and Main Streets adjacent to the city operated California Oil Museum. An inviting, professionally landscaped garden will link the two museums.

The integration of these two museums establishes a cultural destination and provides a cornerstone for the revitalization of downtown Santa Paula. The city has leased the site to the Museum for one-dollar-a- year.

The planned $5 million Santa Paula Art Museum will include four gallery spaces, a community meeting room, museum store, collection storage, docent space and administrative offices. Designed by the Ventura firm of Mainstreet Architects, the structure will occupy 12,042 square feet with added design specification that will allow future expansion to 15,542 square feet.

Museum Board of Directors

MARY ALICE ORCUTT HENDERSON, CHAIR
Community Activist, Local Historian, Author

MICHAEL HAUSE, TREASURER
President/CEO Santa Clara Valley Bank

MICHAEL SHORE, SECRETARY
Citrus Rancher

GEORGE APPEL
Public Administrator: City of Ventura Public Works - Retired, Artist

JOHN BLANCHARD
President/CEO, Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce

GUY COLE
Avocado Rancher, Santa Clara Valley Bank Board, Chairman

PHILLIP DRESCHER
Attorney at Law

SCOTT DUNBAR
Real Estate Broker

DOUG GREEN
Professor/Non-profit Studies

XAVIER MONTEZ
Artist, Musician

DOUGLAS NELSON
Architect

WILLIAM ORCUTT
Citrus and Avocado Rancher, Art Connoisseur

MEG BEACH PHELPS
Art History Professor, Ventura College

DEBRA SPARKUHL
Petrochemical Systems Designer - Retired

Staff
JENNIFER HEIGHTON
Museum Administrator

The directors dedication to the project is exemplary and reflects the community's strong interest to preserve the Santa Paula Collection and promote its exhibition in the proposed Santa Paula Art Museum.

Conceptual street view of the Art Museum to the right of the Cali-fornia Oil Museum.

Conceptual bird's-eye-view of Art Museum