Holiday Market – Sunday, November 15th from 11am – 5pm.

We hope to see you at the Clubhouse on Sunday. Our Holiday Market is coming up this Sunday. Our committee has been busy curating an incredible lineup of local artisans and makers! Come browse a wonderful variety of handcrafted art and unique goods—you’re sure to find the perfect holiday gifts for everyone on your list. Thank you to Connie Biggers, Priscilla Granade, Joy Edwards-Beckett, Judie Beckett, Lois Stewart, Mary Fleming, Debbie Becker, Marion Scire, Suzanne Shaffer, Lynne Woods, Donna Lloyd, and Kathy Smith.

This is just one of the artists who will participate in the Holiday Market this year, Artist Rocio Mariposa.

https://www.ojaivalleynews.com/news/artist-rocio-mariposa-wins-2026-ojai-day-poster-contest/article_bc89d73e-f754-439a-83a8-bbab3432f3a7.html

Blue butterfly wings soaring high above a gentle pastel sunrise over the Arcade encapsulate the spirit of Ojai in this year’s Ojai Day poster, as captured by local artist Rocio Mariposa.

The winning poster artwork, “Ojai Morning,” was announced by the Ojai Recreation Department Oct. 9. It is a 12-by-16 inch watercolor piece painted on Arches Hot Press cotton paper that will be on display at Mariposa’s Ojai Day booth. After Ojai Day, “Ojai Morning” will join Ojai Valley Museum’s permanent collection.
Mariposa told the Ojai Valley News that it took roughly a week to paint. “I first did a quick sketch using a yellow watercolor pencil, and then painted over the sketch using a limited palette of pinks, yellows and blues,” she said.
The theme of this year’s Ojai Day poster contest was “Ojai’s spirit through the centuries.” Mariposa, coincidentally in line with the Ojai Day mandala around the Libbey Fountain Plaza, has lately been painting butterflies and their matching native-plant pollinators as centerpieces in her art, she said.
“The spirit of this particular piece is an acmon blue butterfly, soaring above and guiding us through the landscape,” Mariposa explained. “In the foreground, one of its larval host plants, the beloved California poppy, frames Ojai’s iconic landmarks bathed in a rosy light. We see the sun rise over Ojai from the perspective of the butterfly, its enchanting beauty and its hopeful, perpetual, delicate-yet-resilient essence over the centuries.”
Mariposa has lived in the Ojai Valley for a decade and has been an artist since she was 2 years old, “from the time I scribbled on the walls with crayons,” she said. “My favorite activities are spending time in my garden and hiking with my watercolor palette and sketchbook in my backpack. I find a cozy spot and lose myself while painting nature.”
Mariposa added that living in Ojai transformed her work “because it gave my art a specificity of place,” using its native landscape and her own garden as a continuously inspirational framework.
“Ojai has given me this gift,” Mariposa said, “and this is what I hoped to offer back in ‘Ojai Morning.’ I’m grateful to have it represented on this year’s Ojai Day poster.”
To learn more, visit rociomariposa.com.