This week, we take a closer look at Humboldt County’s current COVID-19 surge, which is fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant and threatening local hospital capacity with reverberating impacts. We also discuss the festival transforming Eureka’s streets with colorful murals, and what voters need to know to fill out their ballots for the upcoming […]
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Public Art as Community Care
The Eureka Street Art Festival galvanized the Henderson Center neighborhood with new visions and unfamiliar words. Quarantine kept the focus of this year’s renewal local, which presented an opportunity for organizers to assemble an eclectic group of local visual artists and poets. The 12 new murals and eight poetry installations they produced over the course […]
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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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The Painting on the Wall
At the block party for the second annual Eureka Street Art Festival, more than a dozen artists hailing from points ranging from Bayside to Buenos Aires were steadily moving toward completion in front of ebullient crowds. Many had been working in public all week — spraying, brushing, gridding and stenciling, shimmying up and down ladders […]
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Smudge Factor: Photos from Pastels on the Plaza
The rain held off and the sun shone down upon the ephemeral works surrounding the Arcata Plaza during this year’s Pastels on the Plaza. All along the sidewalk, sponsored artists created fanciful scenes and entertained onlookers with their skills at the benefit for North Coast Children’s Services. Photographer Mark McKenna was there shooting the festivities […]
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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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Contents Under Pressure: Graffiti at Piante
Everyone who knows about it is very excited to see what craziness I have agreed to this time,” gallerist Sue Natzler said with a laugh about the graffiti art exhibition opening this month at Piante Gallery. The installation was in the final stages of completion when I saw it and indeed, the place looked changed. […]
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GMOs: You’re Doing It Wrong
So, this piece of unsanctioned public art was on display yesterday at Eighth and F streets in Eureka. White bread, cantaloupe, bananas, cupcakes and peppers were all nailed to the tree for reasons that elude us. We’re just grateful the meat and dairy groups were left out.