Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation

MPAF GALLERY on Cannery Row
​Open 7 days a week, 11am - 5pm 

Historic MPAF Gallery on Cannery Row

MPAF Gallery
425 Cannery Row 
Monterey, California 93940
Phone: (831) 655-1267

​​Operated as a co-op of over 30 local artists, each represented artist is on duty at the gallery one day per month and is available for any questions, etc. This way, we can also keep prices very affordable. We ship to anywhere in the USA and Canada.

The gallery is popular with both tourists and locals who return regularly to view new exhibits. Original new works are always coming in and the whole gallery show changes 4 times each year. It is one of the top attractions in Monterey County, a short walk from Monterey Bay Aquarium, and diagonally across from the Monterey Plaza Hotel and Chart House restaurant.

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​MPAF Gallery was chosen as one of 2 places to check out art by local artists in the August 2014 issue of Sunset Magazine. It was featured in the Nov-Dec 2013 issue of AAA Via Magazine. For visitors to the Monterey Bay Area, it is a great place to buy souvenirs.

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Membership in MPAF is not membership in the gallery on Cannery Row, however, your web page on this site does give our board a chance to see your work. As our long-time gallery artists retire, showing spaces become available and new gallery artists are invited in by the MPAF Board. New gallery artists are chosen by their ability and availability to run the shop for one day each month, pay the rental fee (currently $65/month), welcome visitors from around the world, and produce appealing, original artworks. The gallery sales commission is currently 10%.

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Gallery History

​​The MPAF gallery has had several locations. The present location on Cannery Row has been the most successful even during bad economic times. We have been showing the work of over 30 local artists in this current location since 2003. 

The gallery is located on the first floor of an historic building once used as a carriage house back in the days of the sardine canneries. The metal tank in its parking lot was used for fish oil storage. It was once painted yellow, and persons unknown thought it looked like a yellow submarine. You can still see a little yellow paint in the corners and crevices.

Of course, the street known as Cannery Row was memorialized in the novel Cannery Row by Nobel prize winning author and native son, John Steinbeck, in 1945. A memorial to his friend Doc Ricketts is just up the hill on the bike path above the gallery.

Artist and MPAF Board Member: Noelle Nichols in the gallery garden.

Film: "Clash By Night"

Many scenes from the 1952 black and white movie "Clash by Night", starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, and Marilyn Monroe were shot at what is now the second floor of the building. The second floor is now a private residence. Architectural changes were made, and the first floor, though old, was raised up to become the second floor.

The film "Clash By Night" opens with street and sardine factory scenes on Cannery Row as it really was in the early 1950's.

MPAF Gallery, 425 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940