[MONTEREY, CA] Steel is the theme of the winter Arts Lounge@La Mirada, the after hours party for young professionals who, this month, are invited to a special one-night steel sculpture exhibition with DJ sounds and fabulous food and drink in the company of like minds at the vaulting La Mirada galleries of the Monterey Museum of Art. The event is sponsored by two Museum supporters, TMDcreative and Salinas Steel Builders. Beer is provided courtesy of Couch Distributors. The festivities begin at 7pm and continue till 10pm, Friday November 14. 

Arts Lounge@LaMirada always has a creative element and this time includes a display of the industrial photography of Renee Balducci Houston, one of the “creatives” with TMDcreative. “She was shooting pictures of Salinas Steel Builders in action at some of their jobsites,” said Nick Pasculli, president of the Salinas-based full-service advertising agency. “They’re amazing pictures of a really fascinating process; that’s what led to us to this theme.” Pasculli approached three local steel sculptors, Todd Kruper of Sand City, CW Freedman, and Mark Bava. “In the works created for Arts Lounge@LaMirada, the artists were asked to work primarily with steel from Salinas Steel Builders’ scrapyard. At the first Arts Lounge we sponsored, we had a great time with a surfboard and skateboard theme—and in the middle of all the fun, we managed to introduce some up and coming young professionals to this great Museum. It’s a perfect match.”

Arts Lounge@La Mirada, 720 Via Mirada in Monterey is free to Monterey Contemporaries Members; $10 Non-Members, $5 Students and Military with Valid ID.

About The Monterey Museum of Art
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 of 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 am to 5 pm and Sunday 1 to 4 pm. Admission: $5 general, $2.50 student and military. Museum members and children under 12 are free. For more information, please visit www.montereyart.org or call 831.372.5477.