Explore local color at the next online Humboldt County Historical Society Program with Journal Art Beat columnist and art history professor Gabrielle Gopinath. Gopinath’s presentation “Public Art for Eureka: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” on Saturday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. examines the history of public art in Eureka from its 1970s beginnings through the 1990s mural […]
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Eureka Street Art Festival Goes Large(r)
The Eureka Street Art Festival is back Aug. 7-14 for round four of beautifying the city with large, colorful murals and other vibrant art. The annual event, whose mission is “to create intentional, accessible art that enlivens public spaces” as well as revitalize parts of the city, focuses on a different areas each year. Its inaugural year […]
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UPDATE: Caltrans: Copyright Contract Grants Rights to Artists
UPDATE: The Journal has received clarification from Caltrans spokesperson Myles Cochran on the language and intent of the contract it sent to artists who painted Caltrans utility boxes as part of the Eureka Box Art program in 2018, stating that it in fact grants all control and ownership of the artwork to the artists. While […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: Is Arcata ready to pay more taxes to keep the firefighters and stations it has, or make tough cuts to keep the costs down? It’s on the March 3 ballot and we’ll talk about emergency response and costs. Plus, Jesse Wiedel’s gritty Heroin Hilton street art installation on an infamous Eureka building and […]
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Art in the Streets
Stock Schlueter dips his paintbrush in a deep forest green and pit-pats leaves onto a tree in the far-right corner of his painting in Opera Alley. His piece is an ode to a spot along Madden Creek he’s grown fond of. Beginning Aug. 11, more than 20 local and visiting artists transformed walls along Opera […]
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Live Art on E Street
Artist Jonathan DeSoto has his headphones on, so don’t feel like you have to honk in support. He’s under a pop-up tent against the morning mist, painting the first of two utility boxes on E Street in Eureka as part of the Eureka Box Art! program, beautifying grim utility boxes with public art sponsored by […]
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Paint the Utility Box You Want to See in the World
Before you tag that utility box for free, consider getting paid $500 by the city of Eureka to do a mini-mural. A new program called Eureka Box Art! (somebody loves those exclamation points) will pay individual artists or groups to paint boxes of varying sizes around town to both beautify the mundane blocks of metal […]
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Putting a Bird Back On It
You may recall that on Dec. 3, 2015, some damn fool(s) wrenched one of the 5 1/2-foot-long aluminum birds off Jack Sewell’s “Following Current Events,” kinetic sculpture at the C Street Market Square. The bird, which sat high up in the 23-foot-tall piece, never was returned. However, after a year of working to secure funding from […]
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Hot Bird: Public Sculpture Theft in Eureka
Somewhere between the night of Thursday, Dec. 3 and the following morning, someone pried one of the enormous metal birds off Jack Sewell’s “Following Current Events,” the kinetic sculpture at the C Street Market Square. The birds, made of 1/4-inch-thick aluminum, are positioned between 11 and 15 feet up, with wingspans of 5 1/2 feet. […]