Katherine Almy

I had no idea how far sand sculpture had come until Carol Vander Meer contacted me about the Friends of the Dunes annual Sand Sculpture Festival. She suggested googling "sand sculpture" to see what kinds of things people are creating with this earthy medium. Warning: These are not the plastic bucket sandcastles you made when […]

Of all the art mediums, perhaps the most mysterious is glass. It’s not hard to understand putting paint on a canvas, weaving, even welding or casting molten metal. But just how does one carve glass? How do they put those little flowers inside a glass paperweight? How do you shape the intricate details of a […]

There is one thing that can be said about textile artists as opposed to painters: They are really in love with their medium. For painters, it’s usually more about the process of painting, the subject, color and light — the paint and brushes are just tools. But for textile artists, it’s all about the fiber: […]

Art collectives have probably been around as long as people and art. Groups of artists get together for a variety of reasons: to share resources, exchange ideas and tips on technique, to critique each other’s work. Some groups, such as the Futurists of the early 20th century, formalized and wrote long manifestos, and certainly had […]

This is a story about place and the relationship of two artists to their place. One grew up moving around the United States and eventually around the world. His father worked for the United Nations and so the artist, as a boy, lived in Burma, Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Turkey. He grew up under the […]

Early last year, six Eureka teens were moved to action when a peer was involved in a violent crime. This was not the first incident – they had been aware for some time of dangerous levels of drug use and violent behavior among their cohort. Enough was enough, they thought. It was time to do […]

The cave paintings of Lascaux are some of the oldest known artworks, dating from between 13,000 to 25,000 BC. Among the paintings are depictions of horses with short, thick heads and stocky bodies. The similarity between these horse paintings and the takhi horses, the last wild horse species in the world, is striking. That’s something […]

The first weekend in March is going to be pretty exciting, and not just because it’s my birthday. Humboldt State will be hosting the Education Encounter, which combines the forces of the Diversity Conference and the Education Summit. The Education Summit was initiated by the late Eric Rofes, whose untimely death last year left the […]

Did you ever get the feeling someone was watching you? These days, most likely someone is. What with security cameras, web cams, airport screening devices and the like, you are probably being watched more often than you realize. With privacy such a beloved right in this country, that’s likely to get a few people hot […]

The war in Iraq is out of control, the City of New Orleans gets swept away by a hurricane and our government bungles aid operations to the victims, the polar ice caps are melting and our food is being tampered with at the genetic level. What’s a person to do? Don’t get mad – get […]

Amber Marks-Thornton has been attending classes at the Studio School since she was 5 years old (it was called the Art Academy then). She’s now 16. Meadow Cooskey’s parents drive her all the way from Petrolia every Saturday during class sessions to attend the program’s art classes on the HSU campus. Parents of students report […]