Beth Custer sent word of the passing of her friend Michael Carney, a retired ad executive in Mill Valley who was also on the board of Headlands Art Center.

Terry and I met him at Beth’s show at Throckmorton in 2010, and he had us over for coffee and a tour of his amazing art collection the next morning (we had stayed in town at a hotel).

Searching my email log momentarily had me wondering if “grammy-award winning art director” Michael Carney — a phrase that popped up in my search – could be Mr. Carney’s son — I had seen in my earlier search that he had a son. 

That Michael Carney is the brother of Patrick Carney, of Black Keys, and probably not kin to the Mill Valley man, who was also the lacrosse coach at Tamalpais High and a Brown graduate. 

“Slainte” is a Gaelic greeting, I pronounce it “so longe” almost like “so long”.

(By the way, the Akron Carney’s are related to San Francisco’s Ralph Carney, who played with Beth Custer in her Clarinet Thing).

If Terry has photos of our visit with Michael Carney, born in 1933, we will update. 

I hope it is kosher to link to this invite regarding Michael K. Carney’s 80th birthday that was celebrated in December.