- The Monterey Peninsula College Art Department Gallery hosts its first digital artist ever. And he’s got credentials. Jeff West began his career in Silicon Valley with Apple and Adobe when they were both still startups. He continues to create digital paintings that thrash about in color and texture. His work is shown with the real-world sculptures of wood, metal, cloth, yarn, plastic, trash and other materials of Gina Herrera, who twists these into branches of sinewy pieces. Opening reception is 12:30-2pm Thursday, March 30 (1pm artists’ talk), with another reception Saturday, April 1, 3-5pm. 646-3060.
- Seaside conducts a commemorative march and program to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Salinas hosts a parade in honor of Veterans Day. But how do we celebrate Cesar Chavez Day? Lauren Krohmer has a suggestion: by planting native plants at Fort Ord National Monument with Return of the Natives and the BLM, 10am-1pm March 31 at Oil Well Road and Skyline Drive. The next day, they keep the homage going with a clean-up at Cesar Chavez Community Park in Salinas, 10am-1pm. 582-3686, lkrohmer@csumb.edu.
- Carl Cherry Center is the site for Sarah Ruhl’s epistolary play Dear Elizabeth, about the 30-year relationship and correspondence between poet laureates Elizabeth Bishop (played by Rosemary Luke) and Robert Lowell (John Newkirk). It plays 6:30pm Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1 (both preceded by a talk by Renee Curry), and 2pm Sunday, April 2. $20.
- Atomic 1800 on Lighthouse in New Monterey hosts a pop-up event 1-8pm Friday, March 31, featuring Fogwear, a local streetwear brand by Nathan Martinez. It’s inspired by Monterey County and, according to the Facebook page, “set out to hype up the culture and fog up the community.” Looks dope.
- Have you heard about the Carmel Valley Ranch Kite Festival? It goes down… I mean, it takes flight… noon-6pm Saturday, April 1. carmelvalleyranch.com.
- The 3rd Annual Arts Education Summit of the Arts Council for Monterey County is titled “Equity, Access and our Practice of Inclusivity” and is aimed at arts educators, staff and board members of arts and cultural organization and funders “eager to reach and empower our youth.” Keynote speaker Barbara Mumby of the San Francisco Arts Commission opens. Authors and co-editors of Combined Destinies, Caroline Haskell and Ann Todd Jealous, are also involved. It all goes down 8am-2:30pm Saturday, April 8, at CSUMB@Salinas City Center. 622-9060, arts4mc.org/summit.
Artists Gina Herrera (left) and Jess Alan West share a dual show at MPC Art Gallery, opening Thursday and Saturday.
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