Professional masters. Practical experiences.

CASI advances education by bringing talented speakers to schools and community groups. We bring scientists, artists, physicians, historians, engineers, economists, authors, and accomplished entrepreneurs to your venue and periodically host public and private member-only events.

Our topics span California art history, the arts, atmospheric physics, marine biology, film-making, energy, and water supply. Our speakers present practical depth and have created and led some of the most successful companies and non-profits in California. They include top US scientists and economists; eminent artists, sculptors, filmmakers, Olympic Medalists, accomplished CEOs, advisors to the US President and Congress and have engaged with audiences around the world.

California Arts & Sciences Institute - Inspiring The Planets Youth
Professional masters. Practical experiences.

CASI advances education by bringing talented speakers to schools and community groups. We bring scientists, artists, physicians, historians, engineers, economists, authors, and accomplished entrepreneurs to your venue and periodically host public and private member-only events.

Our topics span California art history, the arts, atmospheric physics, marine biology, film-making, energy, and water supply. Our speakers present practical depth and have created and led some of the most successful companies and non-profits in California. They include top US scientists and economists; eminent artists, sculptors, filmmakers, Olympic Medalists, accomplished CEOs, , advisors to the US President and Congress and have engaged with audiences around the world.

California Arts & Sciences Institute - Inspiring The Planets Youth
Painting by: Rene Romero Schuler

Upcoming Events In 2026

California Pension Bomb

Date: October 29th, 2026 @ 4:30pm

The Community Shared Space in the Carmel Barnyard


Come to CASI’s live event at 4:30pm Thursday October 29th for a deep dive into the risks for public workers, citizens, and taxpayers from California’s generous pension promises. We will discuss hidden costs and long-run implications already crushing city budgets.

Free To CASI Memebers – $20 For General Public

CASI Youth Mentoring Series

Date: September 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm

Carmel Youth Center – 4th and Torres, Carmel, CA


CASI has formed a partnership with the Carmel Youth Center to provide a special youth mentoring series for the 2026/27 school year. Emphasis will be placed on topics that are less common in public school curricula such as personal finance, breaking into adult careers, starting a business, critical thinking about energy and water policy, and self discovery.

All Events Are Free Except October 10th Barbecue.

CASI Event: Look What the Early Carmel Art Colony has Become

Date: September 29, 2026 @ 4:30pm

Wave Studios – 774 Wave St, Monterey, CA


CASI will revisit the Early Carmel Art and Writing Colony circa 1905 and show you the magnificent present of our present day artists, writers, and scientists. The comparisons are vivid: how different are the issues of the day and how similar our creative spirits thrive..

Tickets: $20.00

CASI Summer Gala 2026

Date: July 26, 2026 @ 4:30pm

Set in a magnificent Monterra home, we will come together over fine wine and
scrumptious bites, setting the stage for local art, writing and scientific enlightenment.


Featuring Ashley Bennett Stoddard, sculptor and painter, NASA astronaut James Newman, Researcher David Hurwitz and a summary of the recent CASI Student Art Contest.

This exclusive event will be held Sunday, July 26 at 430pm.

Free for all CASI Members

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The Art of René Romero Schuler - California Arts & Sciences Institute - Inspiring The Planets Youth

René is an internationally noted painter and sculptor known for powerful and emotive female figurative works that explore vulnerability and human connection. Embracing the contrast between perceptions of femininity and the complexity of female lives sometimes not conventionally “pretty”. Her work is fascinating and powerful, and offers an independent, strong and beautiful vision of womanhood that provokes and empowers other creatives.

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René Romero Schuler

René Romero Schuler - Painter and Sculptor
California Arts & Sciences Institute - Inspiring The Planets Youth

René is an internationally noted painter and sculptor known for powerful and emotive female figurative works that explore vulnerability and human connection. Embracing the contrast between perceptions of femininity and the complexity of female lives sometimes not conventionally “pretty”. Her work is fascinating and powerful, and offers an independent, strong and beautiful vision of womanhood that provokes and empowers other creatives.

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