Monterey Museum of Art: free admission in December

December 3, 7:49 PMMonterey Peninsula ExaminerJames Raia

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The Monterey Museum of Art, in appreciation for its increasing community support, welcomes visittors to attend exhibitions at its two locations for free during December.

In the Pacific Street galleries, hundreds of Miniatures demonstrate the quality and diversity of talents of regional artists in small drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture. A tiny primer to the art of the Monterey Bay, Miniatures includes works of artists famous and obscure.

Visitors can purchase single raffle tickets for $5 or a book seven tickets for $30 and have a great chance to win an original work at the drawing that will occur after New Year.

In Pacific Street’s Bunny and Miller Outcalt Photography Gallery, the wealth of the MMA photography collection is demonstrated in Cunningham, Weston & Adams: Modern Photography at the Museum. In the Coburn Gallery, MontereyNOW: Susan Manchester, the biannual exhibition of works by a local artist who has made significant contributions to the visual arts is featured.

In the John H. Marble Gallery, the Museum’s storied collection of California Impressionists is represented by Song of the Sea: Paintings by William F. Ritschel.

At the soaring modern galleries of MMA La Mirada, a solo exhibition of the photographic works of Angela Strassheim brings a rising star in contemporary art to the Monterey Peninsula.

The Monterey Museum of Art is devoted to the art of California, photography, contemporary art and Asian art. The Museum was established in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of the Arts and has a permanent collection of 14,000 objects, which includes paintings, photographs, works on paper, Asian art and significant holdings by California artists such as Armin Hansen, William F. Ritschel, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.

The Monterey Museum of Art has two locations: 559 Pacific Street and 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, CA, 93940. The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m and Sunday 1-4 pm. Tel. 831-372-5477.