Junk + Art + Retail

You’ll find Shoe Shangri-La around the corner from the Vintage Avenger in the Pythian Castle at 1101 H St. in Arcata. Both places are worth a wander, even if you’re not shopping. Tobin’s current installation will be up through October and who knows what she’ll do next.

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Another notable show is Fellow Travelers, at the new Arcata Photo Studios in the Jacoby Storehouse. Humboldt Pride and Queer Humboldt are hosting a traveling exhibit of black and white photos by Los Angeles-based writer, journalist, activist and photographer Mark Thompson. The exhibit is touring the country with the help of the White Crane Institute (www.gaywisdom.org).

These moving photographs and the accompanying text tell the history of the Gay movement through the eyes of the artist. In a short video about the show, Bo Young of White Crane sums up the importance of this nicely: “The most important thing that’s taken from Gay people is our history, and if you don’t have your history then they can tell you anything about yourself and you’ll believe it.”

Although the show is primarily about Gay pride and history, there’s something that all of us can take from it. Ultimately, we’re all a minority of one, and we each have the right and the responsibility to communicate our experience of the world. We can all learn something about the history of the Gay movement at the show and be inspired to know our own history as well. This show is up through September.

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