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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village Tour

  • Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village 4595 Cochran Street Simi Valley, CA, 93063 United States (map)
 

Join us for a tour of Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village on Saturday June 1! Two tours at 10:00am and 12:30pm will be led by Preserve Bottle Village Committee board members and will guide visitors through the site, and provide the history of Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey’s life and work.

Please RSVP here and bring cash for a requested donation of $10.00 per person, which goes towards the conservation of the site.

An artist, collector, builder, writer, entertainer, caretaker, and retired factory worker, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village is an artist-built environment of bottle-constructed houses that served as her artwork, home, and attraction for visitors in Simi Valley, CA. 

From the first structure she built to house her extensive pencil collection in 1956, Bottle Village would eventually become a collection of sixteen buildings and structures made out of bottles and other materials, almost entirely discarded items sourced from a local dump. Though damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Bottle Village is a nationally recognized landmark and one of the few existing female built “folk art” sites worldwide. Please join us in activating the site and preserving the legacy of Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey!

 
 

 

This tour is in conjunction with our current exhibition Kathi Hofer and Preserve Bottle Village Committee at the Mackey Apartments Garage Top Gallery. 

Kathi Hofer and Preserve Bottle Village Committee is organized by Seymour Polatin, Exhibitions and Programs Manager with Brian Taylor, Curatorial Assistant, and Maeve Atkinson, Education and Engagement Coordinator.

This exhibition series is made possible by The Austrian Federal Chancellery.

Photo Credit: Round House, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Courtesy of MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

 
 

Kathi Hofer and Preserve Bottle Village Committee

April 18, 2024 — June 16, 2024

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