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.
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 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