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 […]
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Creativity Shouldn’t Cost the World
Attention crafters, recycling mavens and parents looking for affordable, sparkly reused treasures for your children: If you have been missing SCRAP Humboldt, it’s time to welcome Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse to our community. Informally known by its people as the “spiritual successor to SCRAP Humboldt,” the whimsical, colorful spot in Old Town Eureka is dedicated […]
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Spring is in the Air
The signs of Humboldt spring are everywhere: budding trees, muddy holes, emerging trilliums and gardeners doing their thing. What does spring look like to you? If you hurry and visit the Redwood Art Association Gallery before April 15, you will get a chance to see what spring looks like to some of our local artists. […]
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Some Assembly Required
This month’s Arts Alive at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka showcased three very different exhibitions that, each in its own way, explore the interconnected resilience and breakdown of complex systems. In addressing the conceptual and the material, the group show Powerful Fragility, Clea Felien’s Ever Giving, and Annakatrin Burnham’s T/HERE, incorporate modularity, […]
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The Surprise of Katie Pasquini Masopust’s Capriccio
Now through Jan. 22 at The Morris Graves Museum of Art, Katie Pasquini Masopust displays her mastery of quilting and painting. Infusing her foundation in painting with her expertise in quilting, Pasquini Masopust invites spectators to see through a new and unique lens that at once comforts and stretches the imagination in her latest exhibition […]
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Self Definition in My Black Is …
Now through Dec. 3, nine local artists showcase their unique expressions of Black identity at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Reese Bullen Gallery. The exhibition My Black Is … centralizes Black and brown bodies in an academic institutional gallery setting, a context that can be dominated by white people, and presents an array of media, styles, energies […]
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Community and Creative Spirit
A showcase of local Native art, Recalling from the Source at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery features a mix of traditional and contemporary art practices, materials, symbols and themes, and includes Native artists at all levels of experience. The exhibition includes more than 30 artists with objects as diverse as delicately beaded […]
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Where the Party’s At
In our third hour at Toni’s restaurant the other night, I told my three friends, each visiting the North Coast for the first time from a different city, about the art show we were going to see the next day. “The work depicts a kind of psychedelic homelessness,” I said. My comrades all laughed at […]
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Tamar Atik’s Arcata Spectacle
If you have spent any time in Arcata lately, you will have noticed a lot of changes, many of which cause no shortage of griping among the citizenry. I’m talking about new construction and roadwork, and one of my own private gripes: address plaques with numerical fonts that summon visions of tony SoCal neighborhoods, here […]
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Ingrid Nickelsen’s Legacy at Morris Graves
Ingrid Nickelsen was not originally from Humboldt County but her legacy here is strong in her landscape paintings capturing the raw beauty of rivers, creeks and wilderness areas both familiar and remote. It is also alive in the estate Nickelsen bequeathed to help nurture local women artists after her death in 2005. Since 2007, the […]
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Art Outside-in on the Bluff
It was raining lightly and a little windy when I arrived with a friend at Outer Roominations for the third and final day of this year’s site-specific installation and performance festival on the Bluff in Loleta. The weather didn’t detract from the playful and enthusiastic atmosphere of the event, for which more than 30 local […]
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Butch Cornelius’ Surf Art History
You may never have heard his name but if you are a surfer — particularly a surfer of a certain age — you have surely seen Butch Cornelius’ work. Raised alongside elite surfers and surf artists of his day, he brushed against fame yet never really had it. Still, the aesthetic of the former graphic […]