Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park is celebrating Ansel Adams Day on Saturday, June 13. The famed photographer maintained a studio at Allied Arts in the 1930s and photographed many of its buildings and gardens.

Ansel Adams Day is part of Allied Arts' year-long celebration of its 80th anniversary. In 1929, Delight and Garfield Merner bought 3.5 acres of land located at the edge of Menlo Park to create an arts guild in California. Their goal was to provide a workplace for artists, to encourage crafting handsome objects for everyday use, and to support folk art, especially that of early California.

Today, Allied Arts Guild is operated by the Allied Arts Guild Auxiliary (formerly Woodside Atherton Auxiliary) to benefit Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Ansel Adams Day programs will be held at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Docents will lead tours focusing on the Guild's history and Mr. Adams' involvement with it. There will also be a DVD presentation on Mr. Adams' life and art.

A limited number of lithographs, from copper plates of photographs taken of the Guild by Mr. Adams, will be for sale. Kepler's bookstore will also have books about Mr. Adams for sale. Admission is $15 at the door.

Allied Arts Guild is at 75 Arbor Road at Cambridge Avenue in Menlo Park. For information, call 322-2405.

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