'What Life was Like Here'
Nicolette Reinsmith paints rural Humboldt life At the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, from which Nicolette Reinsmith recently graduated, her Bay Area peers were mostly urban and...
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Images of Water at the Morris Graves On March 15, the Morris Graves Museum of Art opened the once perennial exhibition Images of Water following a pandemic-induced hiatus. This return marks the 28th...
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Mavis Muller's Burning Basket Project Comes to Zero to Fierce When Mavis Muller found herself in Arcata last year, she knew she had landed somewhere special. A renowned basket weaver, storyteller and...
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Tamara Avery's "Threshold" at the Morris Graves Museum of Art San Francisco-based artist Tamara Avery's larger-than-life paintings on view at the Morris Graves Museum of Art through March 9 feature an...
View ArticleBehind the Curtain
The Annual CR Faculty and Staff Exhibition From woodworkers to landscape painters, our county boasts countless artists along with a large community of people who support the arts. One standout event...
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Jerry Pruce's retrospective at the MGMA Like many of the best abstract painters, southern Humboldt County artist Jerry Pruce talks about his practice — almost in riddles — as a kind of search for...
View ArticleLily Haas' Muse is Nature
"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...
View ArticleTed 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...
View ArticlePacked with Color
Becky Evans' and Lori Goodman's large-scale installation PLAY 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...
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Kian Rad Pouyan at Epitome Gallery 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...
View ArticleNancy 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 ArticleThe 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...
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Stock Schlueter Fine Art and 4th Street Mercantile Walking through the door of the 4th Street Mercantile (215 Fourth St., Eureka) is a surprising, almost surreal experience. The interior space seemed...
View ArticleAnnette 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...
View ArticleFull Circle Journey
Robert Benson's Tintah:Amongst the Trails at the Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery"I will never lose the sense that I'm not separate," says Robert Benson. In an Oct. 10 talk about his exhibition...
View ArticleAnna 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,...
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Emily Jung Miller's Ghost Net Landscape at the Reese Bullen Gallery"I think I've always looked for the forgotten places," says Oregon-based artist Emily Jung Miller. "I feel an honesty and also a...
View ArticleThe Future is Now
Backcountry Metaverse at the Brenda Tuxford Gallery 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...
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Bachrun LoMele's Burn Pile/The Andromeda Mirage at the Morris Graves Working for the past 15 years on the site of the former Synanon cult compound in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Bachrun LoMele has...
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