- This year’s annual Youth Arts Collective Holiday Art Show at the Monterey youth art gallery/studio unveils three new enterprising projects. The Elders Portrait Projectpairs a teen YACster with a community elder (Joanne Albert, Darby Worth, Regina Mason, etc.) for conversation and portraiture. YACebana are Ikebana flower arrangements from a recent workshop. And Message Board is poster art that comes over from an exhibit that originated at the Monterey Peace and Justice Center. It opens 5-9pm Friday, Nov. 17. yacstudios.org.
- The Merging of Difference and Unity sounds like a hopeful panel discussion about race relations, but it’s actually an art show of non-objective painting by three artists at Carl Cherry Center, opening 5-7pm Friday, Nov. 17. The three artists are described this way in the press release: “the forceful brushwork of Yari Ostovany to the contemplative canvases of Jeanne D’Orge and the enigmatic spatial forms of Kim Campbell.” Because it’s non-objective work, I guess the subject can be “a hopeful panel discussion about race relations,” if that’s what the viewer decides. It’s up until Dec. 10. 624-7491.
- The Salinas Public Library is having another “blow-out” book sale 9am-3pm Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Salinas Train Station warehouse. The books can make nice gifts, they say, and they suggest “clip a color image from a vintage book and mount it in an inexpensive frame.” I saw one of these just the other day. Is that a thing now? Books run from $0.50 to $3 each, to $5 a bag. 998-3000.
- I don’t know anything about the band Grateful Shred, who are playing a (((folkYEAH))) show at Fernwood 10pm Sunday, Nov. 19, but I like the name of the bands its members have been involved in: Circles Around the Sun, The Velvet Bonebreakers, The White Bark Pine, Yam Clap. folkyeah.com.
- Art shows and exhibitions can take two to three years to put together. It’s not just a matter of getting the go-ahead and then calling your friends who have pick-up trucks to come haul your art. The Monterey Museum of Art tips its hand about art shows they’ve got lined up for us through all of 2018. There is a two-part deal called The New Domestic, the first part opening in July, the second part in September; and a pop-up dinner in November 2018. Wait. If it’s planned a year in advance, how is that a “pop-up?” I’m just messing with you, Monterey Museum of Art. You’re alright. 372-5477, montereyart.org.
The Salinas Train Station warehouse is the site of the Salinas Public Library’s next Blow Out book sale 9am to 3pm Saturday, Nov. 18.
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I can't believe that the library is running a book sale to move out their books in storage at such cheap prices! To think that the books on those storage shelves used to cost at least 10 times the price that they are going at now is really quite sad!
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