Holmes for the Holidays: An Evening of Sherlock Holmes One Acts
2015-12-04 19:30 - 2015-12-13 14:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Actor’s Collective of Monterey presents Holmes for the Holidays: An Evening of Sherlock Holmes One Acts adapted by local director, actress and playwright Cindy Womack from the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes for the Holidays consists of two of the world’s only consulting detective’s most famous cases. Beginning with “The Case of The Blue Carbuncle.” During the Christmas holidays a war veteran hard-up for money brings a little case to Holmes purely to help another unfortunate. Holmes’s deductions trigger surprising events that will change the veteran’s fortunes—and Holmes’s. This case gives us Sherlock at the top of his game in an unusually whimsical adventure. In stark contrast, in the act two case of “The Dying Detective,” Dr. Watson must deal with a fatally infected Holmes and a meeting between his now desperate and rapidly failing friend, and the learned Culverton Smith. Is the Great Detective meeting with his possible savior or having a showdown with a deadly enemy?
This is the World Premier of Holmes for the Holidays which was workshopped and presented at The Western Stage and the Carl Cherry Center earlier this year. So, whether you are a Rathbone, Cumberbatch or Downey Sherlockian, you and theater goers who enjoy the world’s most enduring mysteries are sure to enjoy.
Holmes for the Holidays features Jeffrey T. Heyer as Sherlock Holmes. He is co-founder of Actors Collective, the first Actor in Residence at PacRep and TWS Artistic Associate. A long time admirer of the Master Reasoner, Mr. Heyer is delighted to be returning to the role, as he has been cast as Holmes a previous eight times, a different problem causing the cancellation of no less than five of these productions. He appeared on stage as Holmes at TWS in The Mask of Moriarty (1999) and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (2008), as well as in The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes for the Carl Cherry Arts Center Monologue Festival in 2009.
Performances on Friday – Sundays – December 4th – 13th.
Friday and Saturday shows at 730pm and Sundays @ 2pm
Purchase tickets here OR by calling 831-624-7491

Anne & Pete Sibley
2015-11-21 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Celebrated as a “disarming virtuosic experience,” the Sibleys hit the national spotlight in 2009 with a blue ribbon finish in the “Great American Duet Sing Off” on National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. They’ve performed live at NYC’s Town Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and on festival stages such as North Carolina’s Merlefest to Colorado’s Rockygrass.

With two voices in harmony, a guitar and a banjo, Anne and Pete Sibley’s songs are a journey, a joining of music and story. Raised in the Northeast, settled in the West, the Sibleys seek to convey music more attune to an experience, than a simple song.

Tickets are $25 and can be reserved by calling 831-624-7491 or online here

Mirth-0-Matics
2015-11-20 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Tragedy, comedy or contemporary culture? It makes no difference to The Mirth ‘O’ Matics, who take suggestions from the audience on a range of subjects and then creates a series of scenes and skits, using whatever is at hand. Scenes might include star-crossed lovers, dance songs, sword fights, turkeys, politicians, rhyming couplets, disguises and asides from the audience. The Mirth ‘O’ Matics have gained quite a bit of notoriety as the only troupe on the Central Coast to take audience suggestions and turn them into laugh-out-loud 3-5 minute skits. As usual, the show will feature plenty of audience participation so be sure to leave your inhibitions at the door.
Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling 831-624-7491 or Purchase online here

Natural Histories: Celebrating Western Landscape
2015-11-13 - 2015-12-18 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
A reception for the artists will be held Friday, November 13th from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Natural Histories, an exhibit celebrating western landscape, opens Friday, November 13th at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. Comprised of 23 paintings, the exhibit will include recent work by Tom Davies, Deanna Forbes, Sarah Healey, Mary Liz Houseman, Karen Kleid, Margaret Niven.
Organized to explore various time periods, styles, and themes in landscape painting, Natural Histories investigates the relationship between abstraction and landscape painting, the effects of photography on landscapes and the examination of the materiality in painting. The exhibit brings together the work of artists who have been working with landscape and may lack conventional aesthetic hooks of expression, narrative, and beauty; but these paintings are powerful aesthetic statements that reflect the complex and ambiguous relationship between humans and the environment—a relationship of particular importance here in the West.
The exhibit can be viewed during open Gallery hours which are Monday – Friday from 11am – 4pm or by appointment.

Bruce Forman: The Red Guitar...a jazz libretto
2015-11-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
SECOND SHOW ADDED, STARTING AT 9pm (goes until 10:00 p.m.)
The Red Guitar, draws on Bruce Forman’s decades of experience as a leading jazz guitarist, and demonstrates his skill as a storyteller and teacher. The result is a work that is even greater than the considerable sum of its parts.
A story in jazz, and about jazz, it is built upon the armature of a classical tale that is often seen as a metaphor for how artists become possessed by their art. The story has deep roots in European and American mythos. From the red slippers that were a literal symbol of imperial authority in the Roman Empire, through Hans Christian Andersen’s nineteenth-century retelling of The Red Shoes, and more recently, in several distinguished film adaptations of this powerful theme, the underlying tale has resonated with audiences for centuries.
Bruce Forman took on a classic quest as a young man–to grow beyond his roots in Texas, acquire artistic mastery, conquer the urban world, and achieve knowledge and sophistication. His reputation and circle of collaborators grew, and his horizons expanded: leader on 16 albums; sideman on numerous others; composer; arranger; artist in residence; university educator; philanthropist; composer-performer on a jazz libretto, The Red Guitar, and three Clint Eastwood soundtracks: Flags of Our Fathers; Million Dollar Baby; and Hereafter.
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Carmel International Film Festival
2015-10-21 - 2015-10-25 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The countdown is on for the seventh annual Carmel International Film Festival. As in previous years the Carl Cherry Center is one of the premiere locations to celebrate independent films.
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EXHIBIT: ELEMENTS
2015-10-09 - 2015-11-06 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
ELEMENTS A juried, site-specific exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION October 9 from 5 – 7 pm at the Cherry Center – All welcome!
Site-specific or Environmental art refers to an artist’s involvement in an explicit locale, creating artwork that is integrated to its surroundings and explores a relationship to the topography of its setting, whether indoors or out, city, countryside, aquatic or otherwise.
Featuring artwork of:
ALLYSON McCANDLESS
NEILA MEZYNSKI
VIVIENNE RIGGIO
ROBYNN SMITH
MARYLY SNOW
The Carl Cherry Center’s artistic purpose is to present exhibits and programs that are timely, engaging and attempt to cast light on contemporary issues, both aesthetic and intellectual.

Ukulele Melee: A Celebration of the Ukulele
2015-09-19 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Uke Ellington Band
Presented by the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, this is our fifth year for a wonderfully fun ukulele event, “Ukulele Melee,” a tribute to and written by, the late Daniel Dixon.
We will be wowed once again by the Uke Ellington Band (Hannah Smalltree, Sandor Nagyszalanczsy and Rick Turner) and a plethora of others – Dixie Dixon, Steve Mortensen, Greg Pratt, Michael Wynia, Barbara and Steve Brooks, Mike DaSilva and Taelen Thomas.
Special Guest: Steven Strauss!
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here

Colleen Raney: An Extraordinary Voice in the Irish Tradition
2015-09-13 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Award winning traditional singer Colleen Raney will be joined by acclaimed musicians Bob Soper and Ryan Davidson at the Carl Cherry Center on Sunday September 13th at 3pm.
Among the finest interpreters of traditional songs of her generation, Portland, Oregon’s Colleen Raney recently released her fourth album, titled Here This is Home, recorded in Dublin, Ireland over the summer of 2013. Colleen grew up inspired by the Irish and Scottish songs and tunes in the rich Irish community in Seattle, Washington. Her four solo CDs have staked her claim as a serious presence in Celtic music today and provoked Hearth Music to enthuse, “Singing with a deep love for the tradition and the dark poetry of Celtic song, Colleen has been drawing new life from old ballads and renewing our love for Celtic music.” Irish Music Magazine recently called Raney “among the best in her genre.”
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Monologue Mayhem
2015-09-12 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Monologue Mayhem!
Can We Talk?
If you are not up for a long-term commitment this September, “Monologue Mayhem”, offers plenty of opportunities for fleeting—but, meaningful flings. Produced by the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in conjunction with Off-the-Cuff Productions and directed by Richard Westbrook, “Monologue Mayhem” offers an arresting spread of new and not-so-traditional solo performances.
Funded in part through a grant from the Arts Council for Monterey County, original work dominates “Monolgoue Mayhem” including original, character-driven pieces, rich and vital theater creations with interesting stories to tell. More than a dozen authors—prominent to newly discovered—cover a range of topics, from the enormous and abstract to intimate conversations. Each monologue creates a specific world performed by individual actors from Monterey Bay’s outstanding theater community.
Tickets: $15 — http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2125885

Mirth-O-Matics - Comedy Improv
2015-09-05 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The premiere improvisational comedy troupe on the Monterey Peninsula has been entertaining audiences with their quick-wit and creativity for a long time now. Their unscripted shows are fueled by audience suggestions and adventurous volunteers. Similar to the popular television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” the Mirth-O-Matics perform funny games and scenes for the whole family!
Tickets: $15 – while they last! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2125872

OLLI Film Series: Adaptation (Part 2) - Short Story to Feature FIlm
2015-09-03 15:00 - 2015-10-15 18:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Thursdays, September 3, 10, 17, 24; October 8, 15 (6 sessions)
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
$60
This series follows last spring’s popular presentation of feature films which came to life from their origins as short stories. Join us for an in-depth examination of six compelling marriages of story and film across a broad spectrum of genres, thematically linked with questions of illusion, reality, imagination and point of view. In addition to the analysis of the films, we will explore the adaptation from print to screen and the connectedness between the two. To enhance our comparison, we will also read the stories before viewing the films.
Facilitator
Malcolm Weintraub, Carmel resident and inveterate cineaste, is a devotee of film studies paying special attention to cinema thematics. His popular series include the first part of “Adaption – Short Story to Feature Film,” “Moviews on Moveiws,” “Satirical Anti-War Cinema,” and more.
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EXHIBIT: Collage: New Directions
2015-07-24 - 2015-09-28 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Collage: New Directions, opens Friday, July 24th at the Cherry Center. Artists in this multi-media exhibit include:
Tracey Adams ♦ Michelle Avery ♦ Miriam Hitchcock ♦ Lisa Hochstein ♦ Susan Hyde Greene ♦ Claire Lerner ♦ Will Marino ♦ Grace Munakata ♦ Vivienne Riggio ♦ Robynn Smith ♦ Mitzi Trachtenberg ♦ Vanessa Woods
The exhibit can be seen Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment through September 28, 2015.
A reception for the artists will be held Friday, July 24th, from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Spanning a range of materials and mediums, the breadth of the Cherry exhibition documents how collage’s use of bits and pieces of applied materials is unique in its ability to capture physical moments of time: the created or found materials of the Central Coast of California, its pigments and fonts and ephemera. Collage has the ability to bring a tactile, physical experience of human history into the reality-presence of the viewer.

MUSIC: Feleboga -- American & Norwegian Folk Music
2015-07-09 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Feleboga: American and Norwegian Folk Music at the Carl Cherry Center
Hans-Hinrich Thedens (banjo, guitar, song, hardingfele, dance)
Elizabeth Gaver (fiddle, hardingfele, song, dance)
Mattias Thedens (fiddle, hardingfele, dance)
The Oslo-based family band Feleboga will perform Thursday, July 9th, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. Feleboga repertoire includes American old-time fiddle tunes and ballads as well as different genres of traditional Norwegian tunes, from the older, intricate listening pieces (lyderlåter) and dance tunes (slåtter) for solo hardingfele, to the newer gammeldans tunes (waltz, reinlender, polka) for hardingfele or violins and guitar. Feleboga has performed and taught in Norway, Germany, Poland, Iceland, Thailand, and the US (Minnesota, Indiana, New York, Washington D.C.) Tickets are $15.00.
Information/reservations:
831-624-7491 or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1692456
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is located at Fourth and Guadalupe in Carmel.
Hans-Hinrich Thedens received his doctoral degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Oslo, writing his dissertation about hardingfele spelemann Salve Austenå and his repertoire. He is the director of the Norwegian Folk Music Collection at the National Library in Oslo and is involved in several research projects. During a sabbatical to Tennessee in 2004, Hans-Hinrich took up the banjo and has since taken part in courses with several leading old-time musicians. He was a member of the country and western band, The Oklahoma Lonestar Heartbreak Institute, in Hamburg and of Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, pioneering contemporary arrangements of Norwegian folk music.
Elizabeth Gaver plays early stringed instruments and has performed and recorded extensively with the medieval ensemble, Sequentia (Paris). She is also a member of Ulv, Pro Musica Antiqua, Oslo, and Modus and has performed with several baroque ensembles. Elizabeth often plays for the Telemark Dance Club in Oslo and at the Norwegian Folk Museum. She founded Solveien Spelemannslag, a folk music group for children, at the Nordstrand Steiner School. Elizabeth has learned old-time fiddling from players in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Mattias Thedens has played fiddle for six years and has learned from several well-known American and Irish fiddlers. In summer 2014 he was awarded the Ralph Blizzard scholarship at the Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina. In addition, Mattias plays hardingfele and has learned tunes from archive recordings as well as from young performers in Norway. Mattias has danced Norwegian traditional dances since he was four and performed with Feleboga since he was five. He has just finished tenth grade and will start high school in the fall.

THEATER: Everybody Says Don't! A Show That Doesn't Follow the Rule
2015-07-03 - 2015-07-26 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
NEWS For Immediate Release
Contact: Robert Reese (831) 624-7491
Cherry_center@yahoo.com Web: carlcherrycenter.org
“Everybody Says Don’t!” A Show That Doesn’t Follow the Rules with Layne Littlepage
“Everybody Says Don’t!” A Show That Doesn’t Follow the Rules opens July 3rd at 7:30 pm at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. Internationally acclaimed performer Layne Littlepage with Barney Hulse at the piano, premieres her new musical show featuring the unforgettable songs of Broadway’s greatest composers and some wonderful rarities. Join Layne as she sets up the rules for staging a musical performance, then tears them to tatters with comic interpretations, impersonations and surprises. Don’t miss this unique and delightful show!
Shows run July 3 through July 26, 2015 – Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2pm (no shows July 4th or 25th).
Tickets are $25.00 Information/reservations: 831-229-3137 or ticketguys.com.
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is located at Fourth and Guadalupe in Carmel.
In New York, Layne sang the role of Laura in the world premiere of Nicholas Scarim’s opera, “The Father.” She sang Gertrude in “Hansel and Gretel” with the New American Opera Theatre’s United States tour. Layne also appeared in productions of the New York Grand Opera and the Mannes Mozart Project, singing such roles as Fiodiligi in “Cosi fan Tutte,” Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni,” and Musetta in “La Boheme.”
Layne teaches voice diction, and performance skills to many gifted singers of all ages in her voice studio in Carmel, California. Layne is also on the music faculty at Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California.
Established in 1948, the mission of the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is to enhance the quality and diversity of artistic, educational and cultural programs in Monterey County by encouraging public programs and interactions between artists and the community.

THEATER: Zelda, Save Me the Waltz
2015-06-05 - 2015-06-28 | CA
Opens June 5th in Cherry Hall. Please see below for exact days and times.
Zelda, Save Me the Waltz, a new play written and directed by Carmel’s Tom Parks, opens June 5th in Cherry Hall.
Zelda, Save Me the Waltz is the story of Zelda Fitzgerald, the driven, creative, flamboyant wife of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their storied life, together and apart, is a tale of remarkable celebrity and heart-breaking decline.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) was an artist, writer and renowned as “America’s First Flapper.” An iconic Jazz Age figure, Ms. Fitzgerald turned fashion into a cult of the young and became the darling of New York and Paris society. Although she is best known for her extravagant public persona and plunge into mental illness, she was also an author in her own right, and her exuberance lives on in the characters she inspired in her husband’s novels and short stories.
Zelda stars Rosemary Luke, supported by Garland Thompson.
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m., through June 28th. Tickets: (831) 717-7373, or Ticketguys.com.

EXHIBIT: Meditation on Color and Form
2015-05-29 17:00 - 2015-07-10 19:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
PETER HILLER & NANCY GENN
Meditation on Color and Form

May 29th — July 10th, 2015

CLOSING WINE RECEPTION added July 10 at 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Meet and greet and have a treat with artists Nancy Genn and Peter Hiller.

Meditation on Color and Form, an exhibit of recent photographs, sculpture and paintings by Nancy Genn and Peter Hiller, opens Friday, May 29th at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, May 29th from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. A conversation with the artists about the process of their work will be held Saturday, May 30th at 3 p.m. in the gallery.

Meditation on Color and Form focuses upon how shape, texture, line, light and color are all balanced and considered not as merely descriptive flourishes, but as essential, striking forces themselves in both photography and painting.

Nancy Genn’s paintings reflect her own relationship between abstraction and representation, the titles evoking a sense of place rather than specifying its absolute parameters. The paintings and sculpture, which may include calligraphy, pencil marks, bits of an architect’s topographical map and Persian script, allude to a narrative while refusing to tell only one tale. Her abstraction paintings provoke visceral responses — they are reminiscent of landscapes, seascapes or cityscapes, but reach for something beyond a facade or blue horizon. The active visual fields draw the viewer in, allowing us to become part of her experience, as the experience simultaneously becomes our own. Ms. Genn has exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum, the Mills College Art Museum and the Kala Institute in Berkeley, among other venues. She lives in Berkeley.

Selected from photographs taken over the past year, Peter Hiller’s work spotlights 14 studies of surfaces and straddles the line between representation and abstraction, revealing how ordinary objects often serve as a departure for an artist’s abstract vision–or, alternatively, how an artist’s abstract form may subtly suggest recognizable elements. In his recent work, Hiller uses photography to transform rusted, scarred and peeling paint into delicate compositions, isolated into lush dry points, a la Jackson Pollock. Like the abstractionist, Hiller deftly drips and spatters a graceful arabesque of form, space, light and texture. Mr. Hiller has exhibited at the Chadron State College, Mari Sandoz Center. Chadron, Nebraska, Westmont Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, Ca. and the National Steinbeck Center, among other venues. Peter Hiller lives in Carmel.

Information: (831) 624-7491. The exhibit can be seen Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment, through July 10th, 2015.

The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA (831) 624-7491.

EXHIBIT: Coit Tower - The Carmel Connection
2015-04-17 17:00 - 2015-05-22 16:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
When the Works Progress Administration commissioned murals for the interior of San Francisco’s iconic Coit Tower in 1933, it was suggested that “some of our best painters” be commissioned for the project on Telegraph Hill. Two of those artists– Maxine Albro and Parker Hall–were married in 1938 and moved to Carmel. Other artists associated with the New Deal project visited the area over the years and Colonel Harold Mack, who built the hacienda outside Monterey which later became Santa Catalina School, was a member of the original committee established to oversee the WPA’s Coit Tower plans.
The Coit Tower bond to Carmel will be celebrated in an exhibit of photography, original art and sculpture April 17th through May 22nd in Cherry Gallery, with an opening reception on Friday, April 17th from 5 – 7:00pm. In addition to artwork and sculpture by Ms. Albro and Mr. Hall, the exhibit will include photographs of all 25 original Coit Tower muralists and biographical material curated by Jon Golinger, past president of the association Telegraph Hill Dwellers and the leader of the Protect Coit Tower Restoration effort. Additionally, Mr. Golinger will give a talk and slide show on the project on Saturday, April 18th beginning at 2 p.m. in Cherry Hall.
Last May, a $1.7 million restoration project instilled new life into the tower’s historic fresco murals that depict the city and state during the Great Depression and repaired the roof so it won’t leak onto the works of art.
One of the first projects to be funded by the W.P.A, a number of the artists were influenced by the Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, including Ms. Albro and Mr. Hall, who visited him in Mexico. Not without its own controversy, some of the muralists were censured for portraying scenes suggesting sympathy toward Marxist ideologies.
Hall’s 9′ x 13′ Coit Tower fresco depicts collegiate sports circa 1933: rivals Stanford and the University of California in a contest and students playing badminton, baseball, and basketball. Maxine Albro’s 10′ x 42′ fresco is a balanced tableau of California’s rich agricultural life.
The exhibit can be seen Monday — Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment. Information: (831) 624-7491.
Sponsors: Funding has been generously provided by Michael R. Vollstedt; John T. Kurzava Jr., CFP, CRPC; Hilary Baumstarck, Carrie Theis (Hofsas House) and Merrill Lynch

GARDEN: Houston Memorial Sculpture Garden Open Daily
2015-01-01 09:00 - 2015-12-31 17:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Designed to offer year-round enjoyment to the public, the garden is open to the public every day of the year from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The garden contains approximately five artworks at any given time, including works on loan from Monterey County’s preeminent sculptors as well as loans for special exhibitions.
