David wants to ask OCThen readers if anyone can comment about the Torana Art League, which he describes as an annex to Bower's Museum in Santa Ana...
Back in the '60's I went to art classes at the Torana Art League. I have come to find out that it was an annex to Bower's Museum. It was a large Spanish style house that functioned as a multi-roomed craft studio space. It was almost like an open studio for kids. I learned ceramics, batik, linoleum block printing, enamelling, watercolors, oil painting, and other art/craft mediums.
I live in San Francisco now and have been thinking of trying to open something like that up here. As we all know, art has pretty much been cut out of the general curriculum in public schools. My mom believed in art as an essential part of learning and working with your hands was a good skill. If anyone knows anymore about this let me know.
David sezdu@aol.com
Orange County Memories is about the history of Orange County, CA as told from the people who lived and worked here.
In the upstairs of the original building, there is/was a large room with a gorgeous, carved ceiling. It is where my piano teacher held recitals. I never got used to recitals, and to this day, I get butterflies in my stomach whenever I go to the Bowers. (I studied for seven years.)
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