RECYCLED ART NEEDED…Nido furniture store and gallery, out in Moss Landing, is opening a recycled art show at the end of July, and they’re already looking for entries. Artworks must be constructed of used scrap material and/or found objects only (Ed Leeper’s a shoo-in for this one), and must have been completed after 2002. Clothing—I mean, “wearable art”—must be constructed “primarily” of used scrap materials and found objects (more leeway in this category). The show runs from July 31 to Oct. 23, but must be delivered by the artists to the gallery on July 24 or 25. For entry forms and rules, visit nidomosslanding@aol.com or call 632-3801.

SPEAKING OF ED…Public artist extraordinaire Ed Leeper will unveil his latest creation Saturday, April 17 at his Military Police Sub-Station gallery, atop a ridge above Palo Colorado Canyon, and it’s nothing if not recycled. Called Micro/Macro, Leeper describes the piece as “5,687 miscellaneous items large and small purchased from the Last Chance Mercantile…artistically arranged on the walls of the Gallery Military Police Station in a pleasing manner.” He paid $20 for the entire haul, which he computes out to 2.75 cents per item—Ed’s nothing if not meticulous (remember the six million pencil marks he made on stacks of paper to commemorate victims of the Holocaust?). Call for directions:
373-0823.

MORE ART NEEDED…The deadline for artist applications to the Old Monterey Plein Air Festival has been extended to April 15, and younger artists (ages 16-18) are particularly encouraged to enter. The powers-that-be have announced there will be “additional prizes for them,” along with their being eligible for all the other prizes awarded during the April 17-18 festival. Above all, it’s just a fun, relaxed weekend, a chance to get outside and paint your heart out, prize or no prize. Call Hollie at 655-8070. And anyone out there with historic family photos from Pt. Lobos, two local researchers who are preparing a book on the famed State Park would love to take a look at them. Images of America: Point Lobos, California, by Monica Hudson and Suzanne Wood, will be published by Arcadia Press this fall, and the authors still need more old shots. Photographs should show the subjects set against clearly identifiable Point Lobos backgrounds, if possible. Call Suzanne at 375-8202 (or woodglynsue@aol.com) if you have a photo you’d like included.