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A Celebration of Hope

Hope Frazier 1947-2007

Hope deeply touched the hearts of so many in Ojai, as well as across the nation. Beginning her journalistic career on the East coast, she was an editor of the Miami Herald where she met her husband, arts editor Doug Adrianson. They traveled to Ojai via Appalachia, South America, Cuba, and Mexico where they spent one year exploring and documenting their discoveries through photography and word. She moved to California to become the editor in charge of the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriet Valley Tribune, and Whittier Daily News.

Her strong commitment to community led her in many directions. Brushy: Between the Halves of My Heart, a nine-year-in-the-making documentary about the human impact of the coal mining industry near her Tennessee birthplace, spoke to her in a way she least expected. Last June she gently told an audience of the Literary Branch at the Ojai Center for the Arts that she too had cancer and felt a deep affinity with those she had filmed. She described this as her ‘dance with cancer.’

Gentleness, integrity, and perfectionism mark her work and her world. As one medium developed, she explored others becoming a poet, solar-etching printmaker, freelance editor, graphic designer, and innovator. She designed the “Welcome to Ojai” sign at the “Y”, and conceptualized and designed the “Quotation Stones” in the new Rotary Park, which document the words of Ojai residents and philosophers who helped to shape our town. She was instrumental in founding the Ojai Film Festival and the Ojai Poetry Festival, and served on the Ojai Arts Commission.

Recently her work was exhibited at the Reece Museum of East Tennessee State University and the Museum of Ventura County and will be shown at Ojai’s City Hall Gallery, with a reception there on Thursday, February 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.

A celebration of Hope by her friends will be held February 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Ojai Center for the Arts. Please join us and share your story. Deep within each of us is Hope.

If you are so moved, she would love to have donations made to the Ojai Foundation (www.ojaifoundation.org or P.O. Box 999, Ojai, CA 93024).

Paula Spellman
PSSuccess@roadrunner.com

Posted by Tyler Suchman on January 15, 2008 11:04 AM | | | A Celebration of Hope

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