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 2024

CASI Nutrition Panel Live Event

April 28th: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
The Community Shared Space in the Carmel Barnyard

Join us on Monday, April 28th as we welcome our next distinguished CASI panel for a subject we can all sink our teeth into, nutrition! There are so many points of view on what diets are trendy, healthy, accessible, available, and can keep us healthy.

TICKETS $20

The event is without cost to students and teachers.

CASI 2025 Student Art Contest

April 28th 2025
The Community Shared Space in the Carmel Barnyard

Students of the Central Coast: the California Arts and Sciences Institute (CASI) challenges you to explore the marvelous oceans and coast of our region, and produce an artwork displaying your creativity depicting a species or habitat of your choice. The medium of expression can be a drawing, photograph, painting, collage, or even a sculpture. The top thirty submittals will be exhibited in a grand display in May of 2025, including a gala reception for the student artists, their families and the public.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES BY APRIL 28TH – ALL ENTRIES ARE FREE

Mel Ahlborn: The Evolution of The Written Word

May 28th: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
The Community Shared Space in the Carmel Barnyard

CASI presents noted artist Mel Ahlborn, who will not only discuss her own work and art journey, but also render to us the multi-millennial history of early substrates and inks that artists have evolved. Carved tablets and wall paintings, scrolls of papyrus and vellum, the codex structure and the first bound books, illuminated manuscripts and movable type – all but one of these methods of recording the written word continue today.

TICKETS $20

Photographic Artist Winston Boyer CASI Live Event

June 13th: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Event Held at: Gallery Sur

Internationally known photographer Winston Boyer will present/speak at a CASI live event on June 13th at 4:30pm at Gallery Sur in Carmel. The gallery will be hung with a major exhibit of Boyer’s works, and he will describe his life journey in photographic arts.

TICKETS $20

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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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