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The California Art Club (CAC) is one of the oldest and most active arts organizations in California.

Founded in December 1909, it celebrated its centennial in 2009 and into the spring of 2010.

The California Art Club originally evolved out of The Painters Club of Los Angeles, a short-lived group that lasted from 1906-09.

The new organization was more inclusive, as it accepted women, sculptors and out of state artists.

Most of the major early California painters belonged to the CAC, including Franz Bischoff (1864–1929), Carl Oscar Borg (1879-1947), Edgar Payne (1883–1947), Julia Bracken Wendt (1868-1942), and William Wendt (1865–1946).

As the members of the first generation of California Plein-Air Painters aged and died, the membership was filled by younger professional painters, including Millard Sheets (1907-1989), Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985), Emil Kosa, Jr. (1903-1968), and watercolorist Rex Brandt (1914-2000), along with amateur painters and commercial artists.

Other notable members include Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Dean Cornwell (1892-1960), Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955), Sam Hyde Harris (1889-1977), Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1872-1946), and Richard Neutra (1892-1970).

The Channel Islands of California are a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America.

Five of the islands are part of Channel Islands National Park, and the waters surrounding these islands make up Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

The islands were first colonized by the Chumash and Tongva Native Americans 13,000 years ago, who were then displaced by European settlers who used the islands for fishing and agriculture.

The U.S. military uses the islands as training grounds, weapons test sites, and as a strategic defensive location.

The Channel Islands and the surrounding waters house a diverse ecosystem with many endemic species and subspecies.

Camarillo is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California.

The population was 65,201 at the 2010 census, up from 57,084 at the 2000 census.

The Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101) is the city's primary thoroughfare.

Camarillo is named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, two of the few Californios (pre-1848 California natives of Hispanic ancestry) to preserve the city's heritage after the arrival of Anglo settlers.

The railroad coast route came through in 1898 and built a station here.

Adolfo Camarillo eventually employed 700 workers growing mainly lima beans.

Walnuts and citrus were also grown on the ranch.

Adolfo bred Camarillo White Horses in the 1920s through the 1960s and was well known for riding them, dressed in colorful Spanish attire, in parades such as the Fiesta of Santa Barbara.

Gallup, Inc. is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company.

Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.

It provides research and strategic consulting to large organizations in many countries, focusing on "analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems.".

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.