“I’ve been making art since as far back as I can remember,” says sculptress Lily Haas. “I still remember my … ceramics class in second grade.” From the beginning, she says she has used art feel grounded. Her relationship with clay offered her a vehicle for self-investigation and expression, and a place where she felt […]
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Ted Hsu: From Science Geek to Tarot Artist
Ted Hsu is not your typical occult artist. While he has dabbled in art his entire life, when it came to choosing a career, he took on a “real” profession: neuroscience. As happens in life, though, we don’t always stay on the path we set out on. The study of tarot can teach us a […]
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Packed with Color
It all started with two 4-by-4-by-4-foot boxes of wood wool — great piles of curly, hay-like wood shavings — marked “FREE” outside Miller Farms Garden Center. Artist Becky Evans saw the boxes and thought her friend and fellow artist Lori Goodman might want to use the material in her paper-making practice. Eventually, they transformed the […]
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Establishing Secure Connection
An Iranian cartoonist, a French gallerist and an American art writer walk into Old Town, Eureka. OK, so not exactly, but kind of. Within a few minutes of stepping into Epitome Gallery to see the provocative and emotional pen and ink drawings by Kian Rad Pouyan, I was talking with him, face to digitized face […]
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Nancy Tobin’s CRy-Baby Installation at CR
Some artists are world-describers, tirelessly reconfiguring surfaces, objects and spaces to resonate on a particular frequency. That’s how it is with Nancy Tobin, whose installation CRy-Baby is on view through March 1 at College of the Redwoods. Subtitled “A comedic installation exploring the connections between space, past and future selves,” the work delivers. “We’re very […]
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The Reluctantly Famous Shoshoni Hostler
When Yurok Native Shoshoni Hostler began beading as a hobby years ago, she never dreamed it would lead to museum exhibits and Hollywood actresses wearing her designs. She works as suicide program manager and associate marriage and family therapist for the Yurok tribe, but her artistic career has continued to grow — albeit somewhat accidentally. […]
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New Art Sellers Around Old Town:
Walking through the door of the 4th Street Mercantile (215 Fourth St., Eureka) is a surprising, almost surreal experience. The interior space seemed to me somehow larger than the actual building. As I approached the counter just inside the entryway, my eyes were drawn beyond it, in all directions, to the expertly curated displays of […]
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Annette Makino’s Life in Collage
Annette Makino has been an artist all her life but it wasn’t until 2010 that she became interested in incorporating haiku into her artwork. For her birthday that year, her Arcata friend and fellow artist Amy Uyeki gave her a book of senryu, a poetic form structurally similar to haiku but with more humor and […]
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Full Circle Journey
“I will never lose the sense that I’m not separate,” says Robert Benson. In an Oct. 10 talk about his exhibition at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Gallery, he described his intimate relationship with the environment and all its elements, explaining how his relationship to the land, his sense of un-separateness informs his art. Benson’s exhibition […]
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Anna Oneglia: Humboldt’s Traveling Artist
“Humboldt’s weather is great for making art,” says Arcata artist Anna Oneglia. “I love rain and even fog makes for good long studio days.” As she spoke via Zoom, Oneglia was sitting on a porch, iridescent green fronds swaying behind her under an ironically blue, cloudless sky. She was house sitting in Hawaii, far from […]
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Sea of Possibilities
“I think I’ve always looked for the forgotten places,” says Oregon-based artist Emily Jung Miller. “I feel an honesty and also a mystery in the silent stories told by things left behind,” she explains. “Over time, nature transforms our human creations into something new and collaborative.” Ghost Net Landscape, Miller’s current exhibition at Cal Poly […]
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The Future is Now
On the heels of the COVID pandemic, many of us wonder what comes next for us as humans on planet Earth. We have seen — and continue to see — big changes with technology, our environment and beyond in recent years. Looking at our impact on our planet and how we live with it is […]