July 2, 2010

Dr. Lila Staples, head of the museum studies program at CSU Monterey Bay, will present a seminar on "Steinbeck's Monterey as Painted by his Contemporaries" July 22 at the Monterey History and Maritime Museum.

The museum is located at 5 Custom House Plaza.

The 7 p.m. program is part of the Monterey History and Art Association's monthly lecture series. Admission is free for association members and $10 for nonmembers.

Dr. Staples is the coordinator of the California Regional Art History Project at CSUMB. An art historian, she teaches a variety of courses in the Visual and Public Art Department, and is a frequent lecturer at museums and universities in Central and Northern California.

She is a former president of the Monterey Museum of Art and the Pacific Grove Heritage Society, and currently serves on the board of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and the Fort Ord Museum and Archive Project at CSUMB.

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