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Gallery holds MFA exhibit 

Traywick Gallery in Berkeley has announced its annual Introduction exhibition, East Bay MFAs 2000, which opens July 26 and continues through Aug. 19.  

The exhibition features the work of three recent graduates from two of the East Bay’s Master of Fine Art programs and highlights the strong tradition of art education in the Bay Area. 

Barbara Campbell, a featured artist who graduated from UC Berkeley, paints large-scale landscapes from fragments of sites and objects she walks and drives by. Alissa Haller, a Mills College graduate, uses photography to document the empty spaces of new suburban development; interior details such as vacant corners and shelves of new houses, or street signs standing alone in grassy spaces. Tony Tredway, also of Mills College is a sculptor who uses ordinary objects and materials as sources for his spare, minimal work. 

There will be a reception for the artists on Wednesday, July 26 from 6-8 p.m. Traywick Gallery’s summer hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is located at 1316 10th Street. 

For more information, visit www.traywick.com. 

Residents can call if they smell odors 

Pacific Steel Casting (PSC) launched a tracking system to help improve its odor mitigation program last week. Neighbors of PSC are encouraged to call their 24-hour hotline number to report any odors believed to be originating from the PSC facilities. The hotline number is (510) 558-2256. 

Emergency class offered 

Berkeley’s Office of Emergency Services is offering free CERT classes (Community Emergency Response Training). The classes are open to anyone who lives or works in Berkeley and give basic, practical information and hands on training in the case of a disaster. 

The next class will be held July 15 on “Light Search and Rescue.” 

All classes are held at the Emergency Operations Center, 997 Cedar Street. For a class schedule or for more information, call the Office of Emergency Services at (510) 644-8736. 

People can also register online at the OES web site (www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/fire/oes.html). 

Book event set 

SAN FRANCISCO – Northern California Independent Booksellers Association will sponsor Books by the Bay, the fifth annual outdoor book fair at Pier 32 in San Francisco, July 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The fair, free to the public, will feature 45 bookstore booths, 50 author readings and signings, a poetry hour and a children’s activity corner. 

For details, call (415) 927-3937 or visit www.booksbythebay.com.