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Built to serve as a public school and town meeting hall, Colton Hall was named for Reverend Walter Colton who was appointed to serve as Alcalde or Chief Magistrate of the Monterey district. It now offers visitors a re-creation of the meeting room where California's first Constitution was drafted in October 1849 and exhibits on early Monterey. Colton Hall is a landmark in the City of Monterey, once the capital of Alta California.

Crystal Fox Gallery on Historic Cannery Row. Featuring art glass from many US artists including Satava Glass Jellyfish sculptures, metal sculptures, jewelry, wall art, ceramics, Swarovski Crystal, Mats Jonasson Crystal, and so much more!

Golf Lifestyles, Inc. (GLI), a full services golf art and publishing company, caters to the golf enthusiast, corporate event planners, golf clubs and art collectors who enjoy and utilize beautiful golf landscape photography. GLI specializes in fine art photography prints, customized corporate art-gifts, unique tournament awards and collectibles, stock photography, golf book publishing, digital retouches and archiving, advertising concept and design services.  Visit our newly appointed Studio Gallery near the Monterey Airport on Garden Road (by appointment only), featuring the acclaimed photography of Joann Dost and other contemporary golf artists. Services Assignment Photography, Stock Golf Photographs, Fine Art Giclee Reproduction and Custom Framing Tournament Prizes and Corporate Gifts, featuring heirloom-quality, course-specific, photography-based artifacts such as glass photo boxes, ornamental spheres and gift art, such as framed “Memorable Rounds” scorecards. Concept and Design for Advertising, Websites, Digital Retouches and Archving Interior Decorating Book Publishing

The Historic Garden League is a nonprofit foundation formed to restore, support, maintain and preserve the historic gardens of the Monterey area and to offer the public the opportunity to gain knowledge and appreciation of them. Who We Are The Historic Garden League (HGL) volunteers are dedicated to maintaining the gardens surrounding six major historic properties in Monterey.  The Historic Garden League works with the Monterey State Historic Park to operate two Custom House Plaza shops owned by the State.  The Jos. Boston Store and Picket Fence are staffed by HGL volunteers.  All profits from sales are used to maintain, restore and support Monterey State Historic Park gardens.  HGL volunteers also provide tours of six gardens.  The Historic Garden League is affiliated with Monterey History and Art Association (MHAA) and has restored and maintains the Doud House and Carriage House gardens, properties owned by MHAA. The Historic Garden League is represented by membership in the Garden Council of Monterey.  A member of HGL chairs the council that consists of several garden groups from the Monterey Peninsula, the City of Monterey, California State Parks, and Monterey History and Art Association. What's New Special Garden Event
The Annual “History In Bloom” will take place on Saturday, September 20, 2008 in the Casa del Oro and Memory Gardens located on Scott and Pacific Streets in Monterey.  Plan to attend this year and help us to continue the restoration and maintenance of Monterey’s Historic Gardens. New Items in the Picket Fence and Jos. Boston Stores
Come and see the unique merchandise in the Historic Garden League’s two stores.  Come and see our seasonal decorations and gifts.   Historic Garden League Projects Doud House
The Historic Garden League has restored and developed the gardens surrounding Doud House during the past three years, in conjunction with Monterey History and Art which owns the property. Casa del Oro Garden
The Historic Garden League, in conjunction with the State Historic Park,  raised funds for the development of this new garden.  The garden is located at the corner of Pacific and Scott streets.  The former parking lot and small garden is now the major entrance to the Historic Park and  provides the visitor an unobstructed view from the First Theatre to the Custom House Plaza. Tours
The Historic Garden League has initiated an educational program to provide tours of six of the State Historic Gardens.  Docents inform visitors of the importance of the buildings as well as describing the gardens and plants.  These tours are within easy walking distance from the Picket Fence, where the tours begin. Membership The Historic Garden League is  a nonprofit educational organization.  Member activities include working in the historic gardens under the supervision of master gardeners.  Affiliations with related civic organizations in Monterey provide the basis for activities in common.  Affiliation with the State Historic Park provides participation in the Parks docent and educational programs and seminars relating to the history and development of the Monterey Peninsula.  Hours worked by Garden League volunteers are also credited by the State Historic Park and are rewarded in various ways.  

Experience the wonders of the ocean at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Rated the nation’s No. 1 aquarium in the Zagat Survey U.S. Family Travel Guide, the Aquarium will put you closer to sea life than ever before. Our Ocean’s Edge galleries will amaze you with the three-story living kelp forest, above and below the surface views of playful sea otters, and a walk-through wave crash experience. The Outer Bay galleries put your nose-to-nose with giant tunas, sea turtles and sharks and mesmerize you with huge displays of living jellies. The many mysteries of seahorses are now revealed with "The Secret Lives of Seahorses," the Monterey Bay Aquarium's newest special exhibition. More than 15 species of seahorses, sea dragons, pipehorses and pipefish will entice visitors into the elusive world of charismatic creatures that conduct elaborate courtship dances, are masters of camouflage and rely on the males to get pregnant and deliver the babies. The exhibit highlights what visitors can do to protect seahorses and their fragile habitats in the wild.  Buy Tickets Now Avoid ticket lines and breeze on in—just buy your tickets online. There is no service charge when tickets are printed at home or picked up at will call.   Plan an Event Now! Whether you're planning an intimate reception or a black-tie gala, our onsite event coordinators, animals and stunning exhibits are all here to make your evening special.   Click on the RSS Feed link below to browse additional Monterey Bay Aquarium podcasts!

The Monterey County Film Commission is a nonprofit organization, created by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1987 to boost the local economy through on-location film production.  Today the film commission markets countywide locations to the film industry and helps facilitate productions. It helps market local crew professionals, makes referrals to local businesses and services, and offers educational programs related to the film industry.  An online production guide can be accessed at www.filmmonterey.org. There's a great history of filmmaking in Monterey County, and a wealth of film locations for features, commercials, TV projects, and advertising shoots. The Monterey County Film Commission is a non-profit organization, which promotes our area’s locations, crew and businesses to the film industry, making it easy for filmmakers to take their projects from start to finish here. We also hold local events and fundraisers, such as movie screenings, film lectures, the Big Night (celebrating the Academy Awards and more. And our "Friends of the Film Commission" support organization keeps members in-the-know on film projects and film commission events. Created by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1987, the Monterey County Film Commission works to increase economic development through the film industry, and also to support locals through employment and education related to the film industry.  Each year an average of $4 million comes to our area from film production. Mission Statement The Monterey County Film Commission is a non-profit organization proactively marketing Monterey County as a destination for the motion picture, television, and related industries, for the purpose of stimulating economic development, creating jobs, providing and supporting educational opportunities in those areas.

The Monterey History & Art Association was founded to help preserve Monterey's treasures: its fine adobes, historic landmarks, and artistic and maritime heritage. The MHAA's properties include the Maritime Museum of Monterey, located in the heart of the Monterey State Historic Park on Custom House Plaza, and three historic buildings that are open to the public: the Perry-Downer House and Historic Costume Gallery, the Mayo Hayes O'Donnell Library, and Casa Serrano, a superb adobe home fully Furnished with antiques. MHAA also owns Fremont House (now leased to Parker Lusseau Pastries) and Doud House (occupied by the Historic Garden League and Bautista Moon Photography).

The organization celebrates. The organization celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2006 with an exhibit at the Maritime Museum entitled '75 Treasures,' free admission to the Museum in the month of June, and the Adobe Fiesta, June 24. Visit the website for a full schedule of events. The Maritime Museum of Monterey

The Maritime Museum of Monterey can trace its origins as far back as 1931, when Amelie Elkinton, then curator of Monterey’s old Mexican-era Custom House, dreamed of a waterfront maritime museum. The Monterey History & Art Association first began its own quest for a waterfront museum in 1966. But the need became more pressing in 1970, when Adele Knight, widow of MHAA member and former Association president Allen Knight, donated her late husband’s extensive maritime collection to the Association.

The first Maritime Museum of Monterey opened in 1971 as the Allen Knight Maritime Museum, housed in the basement of the Monterey Museum of Art on Calle Principle. After extensive planning and fundraising, the new Maritime Museum of Monterey and History Center opened its doors on October 31, 1992.

Today the Maritime Museum holds almost 6000 artifacts, over 50,000 photographs, and 6000 books and papers in the collection. The 580 glass prisms of the historic Fresnel lens from the Point Sur Lightstation illuminate the Maritime Museum and its seven exhibit areas, from the Rumsien/Ohlone Indians and Spanish explorers, to the USS Macon and war in the Pacific, to Monterey’s era as the sardine capital of the world. Casa Serrano Casa Serrano is classic Monterey, in its story and its design. It was the home of Monterey’s second alcade (mayor) under American rule, Don Florencio Serrano, who emigrated from Spain via Mexico City in the 1830s. He found employment in the small village of Monterey as a teacher and clerk in various offices. He and his wife had six children, and in 1843, Don Florencio built them a home on Pacific Street. The house had 20” thick adobe walls, supporting heavy beams which in turn supported ceiling and shingled roof – all of redwood.

Surprisingly spacious inside, Casa Serrano is insulated from street noise by those adobe walls. The interior was painted white in the Mexican manner to reflect light from the small windows. As in most adobes built during the Mexican period, it was oriented to face east-west, to take advantage of morning and afternoon sunshine at the front and back doors. The original kitchen was outside at the back of the house.

Don Florencio Serrano taught in the school he had created until his death in 1877. The Serrano children lived in the house through another generation but eventually the family scattered and the building was put to other uses, including three restaurants.

In 1958, Monterey History & Art Association rescued the building, and restored it as a showpiece for local art and antiques. One of the most important historic structures in Monterey, it is especially significant in that the abode part of the building is intact.

All the rooms display artwork and antique furnishings. To the front are a bedroom and a parlor where Don Florencio Serrano opened his school in 1846. The middle room displays drawings, sculpture and paintings by Jo Mora as well as period furniture.

At the rear of the house is a large and airy reception room, added on by later occupants, adorned with early California paintings and antique furnishings. There is a large, modern, well-equipped kitchen and two bathrooms flanking the door to the larger of the two garden patios.

Casa Serrano is open to the public for docent-led tours, and hosts dozens of meetings, receptions and special events every year. It is one of the most popular stops during Monterey’s Christmas in the Adobes. Perry-Downer House and Costume Gallery One of Monterey’s great historic homes, this unique example of an early frame house was built in 1860 by a whaling captain, Manuel Perry, and his wife Mary de Mello Silva of Boston. The house was remodeled around 1900 from one to two stories, then again in 1966, when it was lovingly rescued and restored by Webster and Maggie Downer. The Monterey History & Art Association acquired it in 1997 to house its Costume Collection.

The Historic Costumes collection is perfectly suited to the warm, home-like setting of this mid-Victorian building. A fine example of the popular Queen Anne style, the house retains its original porch, its columns topped by delicate spandrel arches, bay and stained-glass windows, wainscotted interiors, and a spiral staircase.

The building has been through several incarnations. The house built by the Perrys received a kitchen addition in 1906. In 1910, house was raised and a new ground floor level and foundation inserted beneath it: its original framing of two-by-fours was insufficient to sustain the weight of an additional floor.

When the Downers began their restoration of the house, it had been vacant and vandalised for three years. One new two-story addition with five-sided bay windows was added to the north elevation, and a second added to balance it on the south side. 

The adjacent Carriage House was also revitalized by the Downers, and given a lovely stained-glass ceiling brought down from San Francisco.

 The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest running jazz festival in the world. It is held annually on the 20-acre, oak-studded Monterey Fairgrounds, located at 2000 Fairground Road in Monterey, California. This has been the site of the Festival since its inception in 1958. More than 500 top jazz artists perform throughout the weekend on 9 stages spread throughout the grounds. Outdoor stages include the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage, the Garden Stage, the Courtyard Stage, and the West Lawn Stage.  Indoor stages include Lyons Lounge, the Night Club/Bill Berry Stage, Dizzy's Den, The Jazz Theater, and the Coffee House Gallery. From gate opening at 6:00 pm on Friday through Sunday night's closing concerts, the Monterey Jazz Festival offers 3 nights and 2 days of nonstop jazz entertainment. "Monterey has special meaning for me. It's the one festival where the musicians really feel a part of the festival itself. At other festivals, you have a spot, you play the spot, you go wherever your spot is. But the Monterey Jazz Festival is unique in that the musicians feel they're part of what's happening, and that lends itself to a very high degree of creativity."
- Dizzy Gillespie, 1977 Named  "the greatest jazz festival ever" by Tony Bennett and the "Festival of the Year" by JazzTimes readers in both 2006 and 2007, the Monterey Jazz Festival is the world's longest running jazz festival--and one of its most prestigious. Every September since the inaugural festival in 1958 - which featured some of the greatest legends in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan and Billie Holiday - the Monterey Jazz Festival has brought together electrifying jazz artists and enthusiastic jazz audiences for a three-day celebration of jazz.  

Honoring a Rich Legacy, Creating a Bold Future. Celebrating the rich artistic heritage of Central California, the Monterey Museum of Art offers exceptional collections of early California painting, photography, and contemporary art in two unique historic settings. The Museum has significant collections of work by Armin Hansen, William Ritschel, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. Our collections are supplemented by year-round exhibitions, lectures, classes, symposia, and travel opportunities. Whether you’re viewing the galleries at MMA Pacific Street or strolling the gardens at MMA La Mirada, there’s always something new and wonderful to see. Admission is $5 for adults, $2.50 for students and military. Children under the age of twelve are free. Membership Become part of a community sharing a passion for the visual arts, stimulating educational programs and lively social events. Join one Museum and gain access to two fabulous locations, twelve galleries, lush gardens, and a fourteen thousand piece art collection. Enjoy thought-provoking exhibitions and lectures, lively receptions and stimulating educational workshops. The Museum’s calendar is full of programs and events designed to enrich and engage the lives of our members. Celebrate American art, particularly the work of painters active on the Monterey Peninsula such as Armin Hansen, Mary DeNeale Morgan and William F. Ritschel, as well as the work of world-renowned photographers including Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Imogen Cunningham. Collections Early California Painting The Museum’s important collection of early California paintings and works on paper celebrates the Monterey Peninsula’s legacy as an influential art colony. Created from the mid-19th century to the 1940s, the notable holdings include the work of Charles Rollo Peters, E. Charlton Fortune, Gottardo Piazzoni, and Francis McComas, among others. Important gifts from the Ritschel Memorial Trust and the Mr. and Mrs. Justin Dart have solidified the Museum’s standing as the major repository of the works of William F. Ritschel and Armin Hansen – two of the figures who defined California landscape painting. Photography The distinguished photography holdings of the Monterey Museum of Art build on the rich exchange between photographers and the scenery of California’s Central Coast. Based on the works of Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham, the collection spans the history of the medium with a thematic focus on landscape photography. Some of the most notable holdings include the works of Carleton Watkins and William Henry Jackson; Pictorialist works by Anne Brigman and Johan Hagemeyer, and modern masters such as Charles Sheeler and Aaron Siskind. Contemporary photographs include important works by Richard Misrach, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, and Gary Winograd. Contemporary Art The Monterey Museum of Art’s contemporary art holdings include paintings and works on paper by Bay Area abstract and figurative artists such as Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Roland Petersen plus sculptural works by artists including George Rickey. The Museum’s formidable collection of postwar and contemporary prints includes Henri Matisse’s Jazz series as well as notable works by Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, James Rosenquist, Hans Hartung and Wayne Thiebaud. Asian Art The Monterey Museum of Art’s Asian art collection includes textiles, woodblock prints, jade and lacquer objects as well as ceramics from Japan, China and Korea. The collection is predominantly modern in scope and features masterful woodblock prints by masters such as Ando Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Katsushika Hokusai. Additional highlights include a formidable selection of Japanese netsuke; Chinese 19th and 20th century snuff bottles; fan ornaments from the 17th-19th centuries; and a collection of Chinese Yi Xing teapots. American Art The American Art collection includes works spanning major North American art historical movements of the late 19th and early to mid-20th century by important innovators such as Thomas Eakins. Paintings by members of the Ashcan School—including John Sloane—and examples by leading impressionists, such as Childe Hassam are also represented. The collection contains the works of modernists such as Oscar Bluemner, Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Rockwell Kent and masters of Regionalism, including Grant Wood. Works on paper by master Mexican artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo comprise an important aspect of the American Art collection

The Monterey Art Foundation was formed in 1981. The Foundation encourages artists to create, to continue the learning process and to hone their craft.

The Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation Gallery is a cooperative gallery in which some of our members have agreed to share expenses and sell their work. The foundation does not take a commission on the work and the staff consists of volunteer artists. We also utilize the space for workshops, meetings, and demonstrations for our members as well as a show for all of our membership each year. Gallery artists provide the public with local paintings, ceramics, photography, jewelry and other artwork including mixed media.

The Gallery is housed in an historic building from the 1920's which was initially a carriage house for the Murray estate. The estate was removed for a cannery and later the cannery was removed and the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa was built. Artists Helga Browne-Scarlett Helga's paintings and artwork can be found in private collections, as well as public galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Her work can be seen at the Garden Gallery and Local Color in Big Sur, the Lyons Head Gallery in Carmel Valley, Art House in Pacific Grove, and the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation's Gallery on Cannery Row.

Charity Crane Charity Crane's work has been shown at the Main Street Gallery, Bisbee, Arizona, and the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation Gallery in Carmel Plaza. Her work has been included in shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, the Carl Cherry Foundation, and the Marjorie Evans Gallery.

Kristen DeMaria Living in an area like Carmel, you understand why artists come from all over the world to live here. Rarely do you encounter one who was born and raised here. Kristen DeMaria is one of those. Being a Carmel native, she has studied with many local artists, but her sensitivity to the environment, with its subtle and yet sometimes explosive colors, is nurtured primarily by being raised in the atmosphere that only Carmel can generate. From her still lifes to plein air to her hand-painted furniture she exhibits a talent that can not only be seen, but felt.
 
Charlotte Hallam Ms. Hallam attended Bay School and Carmel High School before attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Upon graduation from Antioch, she went to George Washington University Law School. After practicing law in the District of Columbia, Charlotte worked as Chief Administrative Judge in the Baltimore office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Before permanently returning to Carmel, she was an Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration in Seattle and San Jose. Mary Alice Hinman Her award-winning paintings have been shown at juried shows at the Pacific Grove Art Center, Seaside City Hall, and the Sunset Center. She is a member of the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation and the Central Coast Art Association. She has studied under local artists Anita DeCarlo, Joe Tanus, Jan Voltr, Joseph Nordman, and Oregan artist Jan Kunz.

Milton Jines A native of Louisiana, Milt Jines was an art major in college at Lafayette, Louisiana. But those plans were interrupted when a Navy recruiter visited the campus looking for aviation cadet candidates. After 11 years of flying jet fighters off numerous aircraft carriers, obtaining his BA from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, and two tours in Vietnam, Milt settled into a career flying with the airlines. Captain Milt Jines gleefully retired from United Airlines in 1994. He and his wife of 43 years, Sunee (a respected painter in her own right), live in Carmel. Milt's interest in anything artistic never waned, and today he mostly focuses his creative efforts on humorous, one-of-a-kind ceramic figurative sculpture. Sunee Jines Sunee belongs to the Society of Western Artists as a Signature Member, the California Watercolor Association, 30-and-1 Artists, the Peninsula Outdoor Painters and Pacific Grove Art Center, the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation (MPAF), the Central Coast Art Association, and Artists Equity Association. She has exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation Gallery on Cannery Row, the Foster City Shell Gallery, the San Francisco Academy of Art Graduate Show, the Washington, D.C. Capitol Arts Program at the Rotunda Gallery, and the Octagon Gallery in Redwood City, California. George Riley George has had recent painting instruction from Dick Crispo, Jan Valtr, Mark Farina and several local college instructors. He likes loose representations of compositions interesting to him. He tries to present a mixture of the familiar with a mood that could transport the viewer. George likes acrylics because of its demand for speed when painting wet. He has recently expanded into wood sculpture, and finds its tactile dimensions rewarding. Judy Riley Judy first became interested in creating art after she retired and moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1997. Living in this intensely beautiful area, she was inspired to begin drawing, painting, and creating ceramic art. She and her husband love to travel, and together they began to record their trips in pencil and pen drawings. Sitting side by side, they sketch their private interpretations of the scenes before them, which they then share, critique, and discuss. Steve Salisian Steve specializes in Ceramics and Photography. He has a B.A. and an M.A. in Art from Los Angeles State University. He was a full-time instructor in Ceramics and Photography from 1968 to 1998 at San Jose City College