Paola Berthoin.......Joyce Oroz

Today we are celebrating the birth of the greatest nation on earth. Painter Paola Berthoin came to this country from England in 1965. She has accomplished a great deal since then.  Painter Paola Berthoin at Arts in Progress Museum of Monterey at Stanton Center 5 Customs House Plaza, Monterey Tuesday, July 22, 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. $5 Admission Fee 2 hours free parking at Fisherman's Wharf lot with local ID

Arts Habitat will present painter Paola Berthoin, at Arts in Progress (AIP)  on Tuesday, July 22, for a presentation entitled Watershed Arts in Action:   What does it mean to  cultivate a Bioregional  Imagination? AIP takes place the fourth Tuesday of each month from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event takes place at the auditorium of the Museum of Monterey at Stanton Center, 5 Customs House Plaza,  Monterey. AIP is open to the public, the admission fee is $5 and  to socializing and community building. The program runs about an hour, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Paola will share her evolution and work as a Watershed Artist. In addition, John Dotson, Rosemary Luke,  Pam Krone-Davis and Laura Bayless, authors and participants  in the Passion for Place book project, will share how their creative  endeavors connect them to the natural world, and how they carry  those connections into their daily lives. Finch Creek Paola Berthoin was born in London, England, and came to Carmel Valley in  1965 with her mother and three sisters. She is a graduate of Carmel High School  and California College of the Arts where she specialized in printmaking, handmade  paper and animal drawing. Paola's deep commitment to living in the Carmel Valley over the past forty-nine years and tending the land she has lived on for forty years has infused her   visionary ways of interpreting the land through painting, writing,  and advocacy for all watersheds of the Earth. From being a pastry  chef and owning and running a restaurant with her mother when   Paola was twenty-four years old to establishing the organization,  RisingLeaf Watershed Arts in 2001, completing Passion for Place:  Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed in 2012  and organizing community arts events focused on the Carmel River  Watershed, many seeds of ecological awareness through the  arts have been and continue to be planted locally and globally. View from Poison Oak Hill-Hastings Reserve Arts in Progress is held at: The Auditorium of Museum of Monterey - Stanton Center 5 Customs House Plaza, Monterey 2 hours free parking at Fisherman's Wharf with ID listing a zip code starting  with 939. Enter from Washington Street. Additional free parking after 6 p.m.  in the Calle Principal garage located on Calle Principal between Franklin and  Jefferson Streets. You may join us online for a live stream in our Linqto room: