News & Updates

Arts Habitat News and Updates

Our Annual Report brings good news on three fronts: Arts Habitat | Studio Seaside,
Arts Habitat | Studio Garden Road and Arts Habitat | East Garrison.

Studio Seaside
We are very busy creating new places for creating art and are pleased with the progress
of our current venture, Arts Habitat | Studio Seaside, made possible by the Orosco
Group, developers who have a strong interest in the arts. The space is part of the new
Seaside City Center, located at 840 Broadway Avenue, near Fremont Blvd. We have
established a “full service” studio where artists can create, show and sell their work;
collaborate with one another, and, collectively build a new arts community in 1800 square
feet of space.

Studio Seaside includes five private studios for visual artists. There is also open space
available for meetings and workshops, rehearsals and demonstrations by artists. Arts
Habitat | Studio Seaside opened last April with two days of celebrations, including a
preview reception, open house and sale of works on paper. Marty Manson, president of
Arts Habitat, and art conservator John Middleton led a discussion on “The Care and
Feeding of Works on Paper”.

Arts in Progress has moved to Studio Seaside, where monthly programs are attracting
diverse audiences of 50 - 75 people. AIP is a program designed to encourage
participation, appreciation and understanding of different art forms. These events also
provide an opportunity for artists and art lovers to get acquainted. The program is free
and open to the public. People leave with a better understanding of the richness and joy
to be found in the wonderful world of art.

Arts Habitat | Studio Garden Road: 3,000 square feet of space in a 17,000 square foot
building at 2200 Garden Road, Monterey, became vacant in late summer 2011. The
lease holders, Access Monterey Peninsula (AMP), a nonprofit media production and
broadcasting corporation, envisions a building fully utilized as an art center, including
visual, performing and media arts.

Thus, a unique collaborative project was begun with a signed contract on October 1. The
Arts Habitat Studio Program will more than double in scale with nine new artist studios
and a 1,000 square foot mixed use space, which we plan to make accessible to the
community, with classes, workshops, open studios and public events.

With broadcasting at the heart of AMP's mission, the programming and outreach potential
for both organizations will increase their visibility and means of furthering their goals.
AMP's mission is to enable local non-commercial media programming to benefit the
community at large. In partnership with AMP, Arts Habitat will offer artists of all disciplines
new access to community resources, and hourly rental of media, performance and
practice space.

Arts Habitat | East Garrison
Union Community Partners, L.L.C. (UCP) is proceeding with plans to build 40 units of low
cost housing with redevelopment money from the state. This will bring utilities to the Arts
District doorstep. On August 23, 2011, representatives from Arts Habitat, Artspace, the
County and Union Community Partners met to discuss the restart of East Garrison as it
relates to the Arts District. The County and UCP were firm in their support and "commitment to
make something happen" in the near term. Making things happen means finding a way to
activate one, two or three of the historic buildings at East Garrison by converting them to affordable artist
workspaces.

Artspace developers, who will be turning the historically preserved mess halls into day-use studios, estimate
that the construction cost per mess hall would be about $1 million.

We are now called upon to translate our vision and commitment into dollars for construction.
Meanwhile, we urgently need your financial and moral support to help sustain our ongoing art programs for
the Monterey community. Your tax-deductible contributions are vitally important for the health of these
programs, and for our mission to create affordable places for creating art.

Donate Now to support the programs and vision of Arts Habitat!