Celebrating its second anniversary, ArtWorks, the collaborative for local painters, designers and sculptors has not only nurtured its own artistic community but spawned studios outside of its 7,500 square-feet of warehouse retail space.

Located inside Pacific Grove’s American Tin Cannery Outlets, the art studio/gallery displays works …

Originally published June 20, 2014; substantially updated August 2026.

Most Monterey neighborhoods are named for geography, old subdivisions or streets. Peter's Gate is different. It carries the name of one of the most colorful figures in early California art: painter Charles Rollo Peters, whose atmospheric nighttime paintings of …