[1] In 1969, Garretti and ten other members of Studio Watts joined with the San Francisco Dancer's Workshop under the direction of Anna Halprin in a dance performance art piece, entitled Ceremony of Us, which took place at the Mark Taper Forum in 1969[2][3] Garretti's paintings and ceramic works often include spikes, spiral forms, and jagged edges, to which he applies paints and glazes using a free gestural approach.
Garretti also has done several works which contain gestures of human faces in the form of three-dimensional ceramic masks,[4] or two-dimensional contour paintings and drawings of facial profiles.
[5] The September 2018 issue of Art Forum magazine's front cover shows a group photo of the Ceremony of Us cast, which includes Melvino Garretti.
[6] The November 2018 issue of Architectural Digest, contains an article about the Santa Monica home of philanthropist and art collector Eileen Harris Norton.
A photograph within the article features one of the home's gallery rooms, where a large colorful jar crafted by Melvino Garretti sits on a table, next to a painting by Kerry James Marshall, and a neon work by Glenn Ligon.