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 […]
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Truth Units
Working for the past 15 years on the site of the former Synanon cult compound in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Bachrun LoMele has built his art practice into a self-perpetuating exploration of the vexed notion of personal truth. The artist solicits anonymous volunteers to record what they believe to be true statements in privacy. He […]
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The Return of ‘30,000 Salmon’
In mid-September of 2002, tens of thousands of fish (mostly Chinook salmon) turned up dead on the Klamath River. Attributed in part to low water flow from the Iron Gate Dam, the devastating fish kill left an enormous impact on the local community, artist Becky Evans included. A self-described “land-based artist,” Evans tends to let […]
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Ruth Arietta’s Illusory Interiors at Morris Graves Museum of Art
Ruth Arietta paints both outdoor and indoor scenes, but it’s the paintings of domestic interiors that showcase the particular strengths of her approach. In these works, densely patterned surfaces negotiate new relationships with the rectilinear volumes set up to contain them. Sometimes they abide within the constraints imposed by floor tiles, window casements, picture frames […]
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Jan Ramsey’s Pilgrimage
“I can’t remember not drawing,” Jan Ramsey says. She was the oldest of three kids and they’d sit in a circle and draw from books. Today, Ramsey sees art “as an extension of my life and my prayer.” Ramsey is well known in Humboldt County for the many ways she’s brought art to the community: […]
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Close to Wilderness
It took the death of a friend for Lindsay Lacewell Kessner, whose show Humboldt County Lost and Found is at the Morris Graves Museum of Art through Aug. 6, to realize “life is too short for mediocrity.” Kessner was 26 at the time, living in Chicago and coasting along working as a nanny, when a […]
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Lynn M. Jones Carves Out Her Niche
Looking through the window at Just My Type Letterpress Paperie’s new location on Second Street, you see a humming scene: a miniature letterpress, with delicate fair-trade Himalayan paper rosettes hanging above. Behind are displays of cards, prints and stickers. In keeping with the shop’s theme, it has an old-timey feel. Shops all over the country […]
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April Showers Bring May’s Kinetic Artwork
After a long winter, we are almost ready for Humboldt’s favorite Memorial Day weekend event: the Kinetic Grand Championship. As we gear up for the fun at the end of the month, the Epitome Gallery in Old Town is getting the party started with a May-long exhibition of work by the muralist, visual artist extraordinaire […]