Recent Press

Among the daily deluge of news regarding environmental
degradation and climate change, the latest exhibit at Westmont College’s Ridle-Tree Museum of Art feels like a breath of fresh air. The countless studies, articles, and books that roll out of academia and news rooms across the nation can be overwhelming and exhausting. The exhibit, “Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography,” confronts these issues from a different angle, expressing the many ways that humans interact with and impact their environment without the jargon. From bootprints in the mud of Montecito after the debris flow to abandoned churches in the American South to lonely villages spread out over an expanse of snow, the photographic images illuminate both the beauty and the tragedy of humans and their relationship with the landscapes around them. .. more

When the sun broke through the clouds over Montecito,
Jim Sobieszczyk  said, “I can feel his presence.” He was talking about Dave Thoreson, the namesake of the Thoreson 30-minute Decathlon, which had eight athletes rushing though ten events (100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 hurdles, discus throw, pole vault,
javelin throw, 1500 meters) at the Westmont College track last Saturday morning. … more