When Charlotte Eyerman took on the job of executive director of the Monterey Museum of Art back in October of 2013, she traversed the entire county – meeting people and starting relationships.
“I hardly spend any time sitting at my desk,” she said then.
All that socializing and networking is paying off. Last Saturday they held one of their Director’s Dialogues with Warren Chang and folks from the ag industry.
This Saturday, 5-8pm at La Mirada, they’re hosting a fundraiser party ($40) with the Carmel Bach Festival to celebrate Johann’s 330th birthday. It’s to be stocked with food, wine, beer, door prizes, raffle, games and, of course, music. This is the first time the two organizations are collaborating on programming – though likely, it’s not the last time.
This Monday, Open Walls, their cool new art happening that happens in-between major exhibits, comes down at La Mirada with a closing party 6-7:30pm featuring a screening of films from another collaborator – CSU Monterey Bay.
CSUMB students from Professor Silvia Turchin’s Environmental Filmmaking class are wrapping five short documentary films made as updates for the 25th anniversary of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass’s landmark film Anima Mundi. (Reggio gave the CSUMB students his blessing to make the follow-ups.)
The student films, comprising stock and original footage, pick up the storylines of five endangered animals in Reggio’s film – honey bees, blue whales, Gibbon monkeys among them – to show how they are faring today. A Q&A follows.
“[We’re] committed to strengthening our relationship to CSUMB through internships, museum visits, and exciting cross-disciplinary programs,” says Ami Davis, MMA’s Director of Education and Community Partnerships
In that itinerant fall, Eyerman met Marcia Perry and Meg Biddle, co-founders of Youth Arts Collective. That led to the current exhibit at the Pacific Street building,Evidence/Longevity/Celebration, made up of YAC alum and mentors’ work.
At 2pm on Saturday, March 28, the museum performs more cross-pollination through a panel discussion called “Youth Arts Collective: A Successful Fifteen-Year Experiment” in which Perry and Biddle moderate the live discussion version of that art exhibit.
Music, films, talks, youth, parties – that sounds an evolution in the museum.
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