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'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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A Drip is Slower Than a Tide

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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Burn, Baby, Burn

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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Edging the Precipice

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...

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Behind 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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Between Thoughts and Concepts

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...

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Lily 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...

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Ted 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...

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Packed 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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Establishing Secure Connection

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...

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Nancy 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...

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The 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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New Art Sellers Around Old Town:

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...

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Annette 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...

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Full 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...

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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,...

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Sea of Possibilities

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...

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The 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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Truth Units

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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