A Retrospective: paintings by Floyd Bettiga
August 18 through October 3
The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to present  A Retrospective: paintings by Floyd Bettiga. Bettiga’s stunning floral paintings capture the beauty and light of a warm spring day. A wonderful treat for the dreary Humboldt winters, these paintings bring freshness and new growth to life. Floyd Bettiga is a retired Professor of Art from College of the Redwoods. Floyd has exhibited his work throughout the western region in both solo and group shows. Floyd’s honors include a 1989 Outstanding Alumni Award from HSU, 1976 Who’s Who in American Art, and 1971 and 1991 awards from HAC for significant long term contributions to fostering the arts in Humboldt County. In addition, Floyd has traveled widely. Floyd Bettiga was raised and educated in Ferndale, California.  He earned his BA and MA from Humboldt State University and entered teaching in 1957 at Fontana High School in Southern California.  In 1956 he returned to Northern California to become an art faculty founding member and later an instructor of art at the College of the Redwoods.  In 1966, Bettiga became a founding member of the Humboldt Arts Council, helping to develop exhibitions of local artists as well as exhibit his own art.  Bettiga is currently represented in over 400 public and private collections throughout the nation. 

Cathleen Daly, "en plein air"
I in the Floyd Bettiga Gallery through August 29th.

Richard Kistler
February 7 through December 2010
Kistler says, “My art is a meltdown of my life's experiences and observations, twisted by my sense of humor…using my plasma cutter, welder and what ever scrap metal I can get my hands on, my sculptures become a 3-dimensional moment of my life.” Richard (a.k.a. Rick) Kistler is currently residing in the great Humboldt Nation, CA. Kistler’s work will be on display in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden.

"Fireworks" by Cathleen Daly

Cathleen Daly, Beyond Beauty
July 3 through August 29
* A full-color catalog will be available for purchase.

Beyond Beauty is a collection of floral watercolors. Daly’s intent of the exhibition is to portray herself, her impressions and her emotions in the presence of nature. Daly says “I dialogue with my paintings. In the original drawings and the first brushstrokes, the painting awakens. The nature of watercolor is that each stroke is irreversible; each stroke wants to dictate the next. I am committed to my vision on its unedited truth...” “It is important to me that my paintings be a feast for the eyes, that it be a bridge linking my mind and heart with the mind and heart of the viewer. Cathleen Daly received her BA in Art History at the University of California in Art History. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe and began studies at the Accademia dei Belli Arte in Rome, Italy. In the following year she began studies with Stanley William Hayter in Paris, France, who is often named as the “father of modern printmaking.” In Paris, Daly worked in Atelier 17 (Hayter’s studio) as a student, with the master artist and printer Liao Shiou Ping. Daly has exhibited extensively and repeatedly in Japan and Taiwan over the last twenty years. In 1993 she was commissioned by the University of Western Michigan to represent their renowned department of American Women’s Poetry. She has been a member of the Taidemaalarillitto Ry (Finnish Painters’ Union) and has repeatedly received fellowships from the Cite International des Arts in Paris, France (as recently as 2004) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2005).

MORRIS GRAVES & ART OF THE NORTHWEST
Continous through the year

Homer Balabanis Gallery Come explore the work of Morris Graves from the Humboldt Arts Council’s Permanent Collection. Enhance your interpretation of the artworks on display by perusing the new Interactive CD-ROM The Life & Art of Morris Graves. This educational tool allows the visitor to view a selection of artwork, the Loleta Studio of the artist, and to hear interviews from his friends and colleagues.