Until a few weeks ago, Jack Sewell worked as a part-time nurse at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Eureka while creating his award-winning sculptures in his spare time. He was approaching retirement age and looking forward to more studio hours when his life took an abrupt, unexpected turn. “I got a phone call from Dan Ollivier, […]
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Thirty Kinetic Years
Duane Flatmo plans to bring his giant lobster back to the annual Kinetic Sculpture Race on Memorial Day weekend. It’s the same vehicle he raced in 2010, but this time around there’ll be a variety of updates, including a fire-breathing monster perched on top of the lobster’s back. The machine is an engineering marvel with […]
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Eric Heimstadt, In Loving Memory
Photograph (c) Arcata Eye. All rights reserved. Use of the photograph graciously permitted by Terrence McNally. www.arcataphoto.com It was a month ago when we posted news here of the death of medical marijuana advocate Eric Heimstadt. The short note has been among our “most read” since. An official obit came today with word of a […]
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Books as Art
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the 15 years Eureka’s Arts Alive! has been in existence, it’s that some of the most interesting art is often found in unexpected places. I considered this fact as Scott Brown led me toward the back of Eureka Books, weaving his way through shelves, tables, chairs and boxes […]
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One Big Show
It was a powerful, wildly successful show, with unprecedented sales and community support, yet Jim McVicker described his recent exhibit at the Cody-Pettit Gallery as a roller coaster of emotion. "The response to the show was completely amazing, but the whole week was a blur," he said. "Nothing felt real because Terry wasn’t there." Jim […]
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Painting in Paris
It was raining the day we first met Axel Marchand. Micki and I had taken shelter under a long canopy with a tin roof, in an area just off the Champs Elysees, after getting rained out of the place we’d originally planned to paint that day. We started new paintings under the shelter, with the […]