Gallery co-owner Nancy Hauk is an art history major (Connecticut College) and a fine artist specializing in watercolor.
In the spring of 2015 the Pacific Grove Public Library in California presented a one-person show of her work Loving Watercolor: Paintings by Nancy Hauk. It was announced at the opening that the library gallery would be named for Nancy and Steve Hauk. John Steinbeck used the library in the 1930s and it is an historic Carnegie building.
Co-owner Steve Hauk wrote the script for the award-winning documentary Roots of California Photography: The Monterey Legacy, a documentary narrated by the late Jack Lemmon, as well as Time Captured in Paintings: The Monterey Legacy, also narrated by Mr. Lemmon and the winner of two CINE Golden Eagle awards.
He co-curated the inaugural exhibition of the National Steinbeck Center, This Side of Eden—Images of Steinbeck's California. He writes for the Steinbeck Review and steinbecknow.com. His book of short stories on John Steinbeck, Steinbeck: The Untold Stories, is being published this year by the website, steinbecknow.com. It is the site's first print publication. The book has been illustrated by the Monterey, CA artist, C. Kline.
His play on early California impressionist E. Charlton Fortune, Fortune’s Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others), has been given staged readings in California and will be the partial basis for a film on the artist by Mac and Ava Motion Pictures. The play has been published on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. website (tfaoi.com), as has another play by Hauk, The Floating Hat, on the relationship of Impressionist Granville Redmond and Charlie Chaplin. This play has been taken into the Gallaudet University archive.
His play A Mild Concussion, based loosely on the computer age genius Gary Kildall and a pivotal moment in personal computer history, has been published on steinbecknow.com and taken into the collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
