Patty Fallini, Graphic Designer

John Nichols
  Director/Curator/Photographer/Writer

   John Nichols founded the Sespe Group -
  Creative Services in 1994. Since 1984 he has been the director of the John Nichols Gallery in Santa Paula where he exhibits contemporary and vintage photography, fine art prints, sculpture, and paintings.
John's involvement in his community has been deep and ongoing. John has served on the Board of Directors for the Ventura County Museum of History and Art for six years and has chaired their Fine Arts Committee. He currently serves on the Artist Selection Committee for the Santa Paula Murals Project. John served as co-chair of the Design Committee for the Downtown Improvement Group of the Santa Paula Redevelopment Agency. He has judged the Santa Paula Art Show. John has served on the board of the Santa Paula Rotary Club, been president of the Santa Paula Historical Society, vice-president of the Santa Paula Theatre Center, and was president of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula. He is past-president of the Santa Paula Downtown Merchant's Association.
Since 1994 John has curated more than a dozen exhibits for the California Oil Museum in Santa Paula. He has curated two exhibits for the Ventura County Museum of History and Art, exhibits for the Ojai Valley Museum, and the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center. He installs several exhibits a year at the California Lutheran University's Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture. John's knowledge of local history and local collectors is a great asset in exhibit creation and research.
John's own photographs have been exhibited at the Ventura County Museum of History and Art in the exhibit "Eight Ventura County Photographers." His work is included in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California.
John enjoys writing essays and opinion pieces for newspapers and magazines. His articles have been published in Shots Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Ventura County Star, the Santa Paula Chronicle, and the Santa Paula Times.
For the past 25 years, John has made an annual pilgrimage to the Monterey Jazz Festival, the longest running and one of the largest jazz festivals in the world. At the festival, John manages the Garden Stage.
 

Patty Fallini
Graphic Designer

A resident of Santa Paula for over 25 years, Patty Fallini has been involved in the graphics industry locally for as many years as she has resided here. Having a vested interest in Santa Paula, Patty not only works and lives here; she also generously contributes to the well being of others through her community service. Her talents and time have been donated regularly to her church, children's schools and to the Santa Clara Valley Hospice, the Santa Paula Boys and Girls Club and most recently to the Women's History Project.
Patty's design work has been appreciated by many of the local agricultural related companies including Limoneira Company, which has been selling citrus nationally and internationally for over 100 years. Patty designed their corporate logo, advertising and a variety of print materials used by the company. She also has designed for many years for R. W. Hertel & Sons, Inc. whose single-family homes can be found throughout Ventura and surrounding counties. The Broadcaster Magazine, published quarterly by the Ventura County Farm Bureau, regularly features her work in both advertising and editorial sections.
Her contributions to the Sespe Group have included implementation of their logo, using a photograph by Michael Moore, a Sespe Group photographer, which she co-designed with John Nichols. Patty also designs posters and event invitations for the Sespe Group.

California Oil Museum (previously the Santa Paula Union Oil Museum)


Selected Exhibits:
Curating, marketing, publicity and signage for the following exhibits:


• Welcome Home, Horace Bristol
  
• Building History: A Century of Architecture in Santa Paula
  
• Animals in Art from the Santa Paula Collection and Murals of Ventura County
  
• Legends of Auto Racing
  
• Beatrice Wood-Drawings in Motion
  
• From Gushers to Gas Pumps
  
• Homefront, Santa Paula
  
• Watercolors From the Santa Paula Collection
  
• 1937 - Art and History
  
• Dambreak - Heroes and Survivors (St. Francis Dam Disaster)
  
• Blocks of Time: Quilts from 1870s to 1990s
  
• Citrus Scapes, The Romance, Art and History of the Citrus Box Label
  
• The Fine Art of Public Art in Santa Paula
  
• A Century of Sports in Ventura County
  
• The Wild Sespe: Tales from the Wilderness Next Door
  
• Rare Motorcycles from the Otis Chandler Collection
  
• Oil Photographs: Vintage and Contemporary Views of the Oil Industry
  
• 75th Anniversary St. Francis Dam Disaster
  
• Oxnard Centennial
          

     

      

Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura, CA:



• Recollections: The Art of Douglas Shively
  
• Connections with the Past: 150 Years of Photography from the John Nichols Collection


Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA: Curatorial assistance for the exhibition of Asian art and on-going curating of changing art exhibits.

Historical Exhibit for the 1996 Annual Convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, San Diego.

Play it Again, Bob: Marketing, publicity and organization of concert for Bob Andrews at the Santa Paula Theater Center.

Bristol-Steinbeck Express: Publicity, marketing and conducting a train tour from Fillmore to an art exhibit in Santa Paula including a ride on the Ojai Trolley.

Church of Angels: Graphic Design and copywriting for wedding chapel.

Fabric Depot: Marketing and Publicity for monthly quilt exhibits.

Fillmore Historical Society: Publicity.

Ghost Walk®: Marketing, publicity and story consultation for this annual theatrical event to benefit the Santa Paula Theater Center.

Ventura County Mural Project: Exhibit design and development, curatorial assistance.

Ojai Shakespeare Festival: Publicity.

Versatote: 5 minute and 20 minute promotional videos.

City of Santa Paula: Promotional displays, graphic design, photographic services, copywriting and marketing.

Santa Paula Mural Committee: Production of a series of limited edition digital fine art print, publicity and marketing of prints.

St. Francis Dam Memorial Project: Design and copywriting for fundraising brochure for a series of monumental memorial sculptures. Publicity and development of RFQs and RFPs for a proposed series of public art pieces.

Santa Paula Transportation Museum: Design, installation and marketing of classic car museum in temporarily vacant building in downtown Santa Paula. Logo design.