Events for May 18, 2023
SLOMA Presents: Adam Parker Smith
This exhibition will feature several works made throughout the artist’s career as sort of a mid-career retorspective. Adam Parker Smith has a unique ability to address complex themes in a whimsical, light-hearted way that makes his work incredibly accessible. Adam Parker Smith is a sculpture and installation artist. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz (BA Painting, 2000), the Tyler School of Art...
Opening Minds: Community Arts Show
In partnership with SLO County Arts and The Bunker SLO, Transitions-Mental Health Association presents the Opening Minds Community Arts Show- an exhibit that will take place during the month of May in support of Mental Health Awareness Month! All events are held at The Bunker, 810 Orcutt Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
SLO Museum of Art Presents: And Also… By Charlie Rugg
The SLO Museum of Art is will be featuring the exhibit And Also... by Charlie Rugg from March 3rd until May 29th. Charlie Rugg is an abstract and portrait oil painter based in San Luis Obispo, California. Rugg’s work converges on exploring the collective nature of elements that make up human experience, and how they may be used to create a moment of perspective removed...
SLO Museum of Art Presents: Marcia Harvey and Elliot Perkins- Call and Response
Marcia Harvey and Elliot Perkins: Call and Response April 7, 2023 – July 3, 2023 11am-5pm daily In 1997, Elliott K. Perkins was working as a potter and ceramics lab technician at a small arts college in Portland, Oregon, when he met Marcia C. Harvey, who was there for the semester as an artist in residence in painting. Their first conversations were about art...
May Forum
Join us at the 2023 May Entrepreneurship Forum where you will meet the Summer Accelerator teams before they embark on their journey! The Summer Accelerator is an intensive 12-week program that provides Cal Poly students and recent graduates with the resources needed to turn their startup ideas into real, scalable businesses, including $10,000 in seed funding.
Climate Action Gathering
This meeting will feature guest “stronger together” speaker Dr. Don Gaede of the SLO County chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Dr. Gaede will speak about the benefits and importance of a carbon fee and dividend, electrification, healthy forests, and clean energy permitting reform in lowering CO2 emissions.
SLO REP Presents: A Doll’s House, Part 2
A slammed door. An awkward favor. And no, you don’t need to see Part 1. As a door slams in 1879 Norway, a young wife and mother leaves behind her family, freeing herself from the shackles of traditional societal constraints. Now, 15 years later, that same door opens to reveal Nora, a changed woman with an incredibly awkward favor to ask the people who she...
Cal Poly Arts Presents – THE BOOK OF MORMON
*Single tickets to The Book of Mormon will be available on Monday, August 15The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” It’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time Tony Award-winning...