Who We Are..........
A non-profit organization, the SIMI VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION (SVAA)
consists of individuals 18 years of age or older, who share a passion in exploring and promoting the visual arts in the community.
To encourage our young artists, grants are awarded to our Simi Valley High Schools Art Departments each year to help with art supplies. The grants are funded by donations from the community and events hosted by the association throughout the year.
General Meetings – open to the public – are held at the Rancho Simi Recreation & Park Activity Center located at 4201 Guardian Street, Simi Valley, CA 93063. Information about the date, time and guest demonstrator are sent out via email or can be found on our website. Special activities for fellowship, such as workshops, plein air painting outings, still life drawing sessions, and field trips are sometimes scheduled.
Among our major fundraising events are the annual People’s Choice Show (for members only) and the Open Juried Show.
Annual memberships are open to students, professionals and non-professionals interested in two or three-dimensional art including photography, multi-media and graphic arts. The board members are elected every year and committees are run by volunteer members or appointees. Members are entitled to discounts for show and demonstration entry fees and other events organized by SVAA.
The SVAA periodically publishes newsletters, which are distributed to its members and any interested non-members upon request via email.
Join us! See our Membership page.
Update: January 13, 2022
Dear members and friends,
Per the Ventura County Health Officer effective October 18, 2021:
Effective Date and Time. The August 20, 2021, Order of the Ventura County Health Officer has extended the indoor mask order, requiring all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions.
This order is still in effect to date and unchanged. For the past few weeks there has been a spike in rates of positive infections. Because of the continued concerns with COVID-19 the Simi Valley Art Association has not changed position and will continue to not hold General Meetings until further notice. Our Association did have a successful and safe Open Juried Show in October 2021 with framed artwork displayed at the Atrium located at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center for public viewing. We hope our 2022 art shows will also have public viewing.
We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
Per the Ventura County Health Officer effective October 18, 2021:
Effective Date and Time. The August 20, 2021, Order of the Ventura County Health Officer has extended the indoor mask order, requiring all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions.
This order is still in effect to date and unchanged. For the past few weeks there has been a spike in rates of positive infections. Because of the continued concerns with COVID-19 the Simi Valley Art Association has not changed position and will continue to not hold General Meetings until further notice. Our Association did have a successful and safe Open Juried Show in October 2021 with framed artwork displayed at the Atrium located at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center for public viewing. We hope our 2022 art shows will also have public viewing.
We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Update: September 28, 2021
Dear members and friends,
Per the of the Ventura County Health Officer effective September 17, 2021, the following order is in place.
Effective Date and Time. The August 20, 2021, Order of the Ventura County Health Officer “Directing All Individuals in the County to Wear Face Coverings in All Indoor Public Settings and Businesses for the Control of COVID-19,” effective and operative at 11:59 p.m. on August 20, 2021, will continue to be effect until 11:59 p.m. on October 19, 2021, or until it is extended, rescinded, superseded, or amended in writing by the Health Officer.
This order helps to limit the spread of COVID-19 and our Association wants to make sure everyone is comfortable moving ahead with public gatherings. Currently our Board Members have decided that our Association will continue not to hold our monthly General Meetings until further notice however our Association will be hosting our Open Juried Show on October 2nd through October 23rd. The show will consist of members and non-members submitting their framed artwork to be displayed at the Atrium located at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center for public viewing. The Activity Center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. As per the order anyone may enter and view the artwork but must wear proper face coverings. Our reception will also be held at the Activity Center on Saturday October 9th, and we invite you to attend. We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
Per the of the Ventura County Health Officer effective September 17, 2021, the following order is in place.
Effective Date and Time. The August 20, 2021, Order of the Ventura County Health Officer “Directing All Individuals in the County to Wear Face Coverings in All Indoor Public Settings and Businesses for the Control of COVID-19,” effective and operative at 11:59 p.m. on August 20, 2021, will continue to be effect until 11:59 p.m. on October 19, 2021, or until it is extended, rescinded, superseded, or amended in writing by the Health Officer.
This order helps to limit the spread of COVID-19 and our Association wants to make sure everyone is comfortable moving ahead with public gatherings. Currently our Board Members have decided that our Association will continue not to hold our monthly General Meetings until further notice however our Association will be hosting our Open Juried Show on October 2nd through October 23rd. The show will consist of members and non-members submitting their framed artwork to be displayed at the Atrium located at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center for public viewing. The Activity Center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. As per the order anyone may enter and view the artwork but must wear proper face coverings. Our reception will also be held at the Activity Center on Saturday October 9th, and we invite you to attend. We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Update: April 9, 2021
Dear members and friends,
Beginning April 7, 2021, the County of Ventura moved into the State’s Orange Tier enabling more businesses to resume with guidelines and capacity limits. This is encouraging; however, the Simi Valley Art Association will continue not to hold in person General Meetings or Art Shows until further notice. We are holding Art Shows virtually including this month with our members only Springtime Art Show 2021. Please see the announcement under events. Normally our Association does not hold general meetings during the summer so the earliest we would consider holding a general meeting would be in September and October for our annual Open Juried Art Show. We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
Beginning April 7, 2021, the County of Ventura moved into the State’s Orange Tier enabling more businesses to resume with guidelines and capacity limits. This is encouraging; however, the Simi Valley Art Association will continue not to hold in person General Meetings or Art Shows until further notice. We are holding Art Shows virtually including this month with our members only Springtime Art Show 2021. Please see the announcement under events. Normally our Association does not hold general meetings during the summer so the earliest we would consider holding a general meeting would be in September and October for our annual Open Juried Art Show. We will continue to monitor the County and State requirements and will notify you with updated information.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Update: October 12, 2020
Dear members and friends,
The Simi Valley Art Association has been monitoring the restrictions and orders given by the Ventura County Health Agency and to date we are still unable to hold any general meetings or art shows. If there are any updates, we will let you know.
Thanks to our members we have been able to keep our association interactive by posting artwork for our newsletter. We will continue this and work on other ideas to keep us all involved. Stay safe.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
The Simi Valley Art Association has been monitoring the restrictions and orders given by the Ventura County Health Agency and to date we are still unable to hold any general meetings or art shows. If there are any updates, we will let you know.
Thanks to our members we have been able to keep our association interactive by posting artwork for our newsletter. We will continue this and work on other ideas to keep us all involved. Stay safe.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Update: July 16, 2020
Dear members and friends,
As the Simi Valley Art Association continues to monitor the Ventura County Health Agency’s order to protect the spread of the coronavirus, we will continue to not hold any activities. We will continue to provide you with updates. We have kept our association active in other ways such as posting art work in our newsletter. We hope you will continue to provide us with your new artwork. Please stay safe and we wish you all good health.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
As the Simi Valley Art Association continues to monitor the Ventura County Health Agency’s order to protect the spread of the coronavirus, we will continue to not hold any activities. We will continue to provide you with updates. We have kept our association active in other ways such as posting art work in our newsletter. We hope you will continue to provide us with your new artwork. Please stay safe and we wish you all good health.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Update: April 30, 2020
Dear members and friends,
Per the Ventura County Health Agency’s order and protocol to protect us from the threat of continuing spread of the coronavirus the Simi Valley Art Association will continue to not have activities through the month of May. This includes our annual People’s Choice Award Show. We will continue to provide you an update at the end of each month.
With the stay at home orders many of us our finding time to polish our art skills and provide new artwork. We would encourage you to continue and post any of your work on our Facebook page to share with others.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear members and friends,
Per the Ventura County Health Agency’s order and protocol to protect us from the threat of continuing spread of the coronavirus the Simi Valley Art Association will continue to not have activities through the month of May. This includes our annual People’s Choice Award Show. We will continue to provide you an update at the end of each month.
With the stay at home orders many of us our finding time to polish our art skills and provide new artwork. We would encourage you to continue and post any of your work on our Facebook page to share with others.
Sincerely,
Simi Valley Art Association Board
Dear Members and Friends,
As we all are trying to do to keep our social distances and to stay safe in our homes our Association too has taken precautionary actions. As you may have expected we cancelled our General Meeting and demonstration that was scheduled for March 19th. We will also be cancelling any events occurring in April. Depending on how the situation continues we will make announcements in April about our future schedule that includes our annual People’s Choice Show which is usually held in May.
There’s nothing else to report but just to ask all of you to be safe so you, your loved ones, and everyone else can beat this pandemic. Stay healthy and hopefully sooner than later we can all get our lives back to normal.
Tom Evans
President
Simi Valley Art Association
As we all are trying to do to keep our social distances and to stay safe in our homes our Association too has taken precautionary actions. As you may have expected we cancelled our General Meeting and demonstration that was scheduled for March 19th. We will also be cancelling any events occurring in April. Depending on how the situation continues we will make announcements in April about our future schedule that includes our annual People’s Choice Show which is usually held in May.
There’s nothing else to report but just to ask all of you to be safe so you, your loved ones, and everyone else can beat this pandemic. Stay healthy and hopefully sooner than later we can all get our lives back to normal.
Tom Evans
President
Simi Valley Art Association
