Youth, Floyd Bettiga, Rotunda & Knight Gallery

The Humboldt County Youth Arts Festival (YAF) is an annual celebration of student creativity, presented in partnership with the Humboldt County Office of Education and the Humboldt Arts Council. Held in the month of March during Art Education Month, the festival showcases the work of students from across the county at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Rotunda

Inspired by the living Giants, hollowed out by fire and growing strong, I bring remnants of an exhibition that first set sail on the AVONTUUR cargo schooner—en route from Germany to Colombia in 2025. Since this project’s inception, the exhibition aimed to create a bridge between Western and Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity recovery. The bridge is shown here with films from my fellow environmental artists, whose art originally voyaged aboard. The exhibit, in its entirety, sailed on the schooner (shipped with zero carbon) from Germany to the Caribbean and back again. The art is currently stored in our Captain's
warehouse, awaiting the next chance.

Anderson Gallery

In 2023, we traveled to Germany and Poland, returning just when the Israeli kidnappings and subsequent horrific Gaza war began. We reflected on the mass killings of the holocaust, genocide, war and devastation in Gaza; and atrocities that are now occurring and have been throughout history, including the current threats on democracy. These events simultaneously inspired us to make work to mark collective grief. We were awarded an artist residency in January 2023 in Urubumba, Peru to begin exploring construction of small paper sculptures that reflect devastation and atrocities, historical and contemporary — a means of witnessing loss and channeling sorrow into material form.

Knight Gallery

I  understand my own art practice to be a process of discovery; a practice that helps me uncover who I am as a maker and as a sentient being. Creative practice reveals the parsing of mind—the focus of thought, the untangling of culture, the push to make the unseen seen. Rarely do my investigations take me where I thought I  might be going. They often show me what is important, where my magic lies, and who I am at core.  

The works in finding and seeking reveal my journey as a printmaker on an uncharted path. 

Anderson and Knight Galleries

As always, this exhibition is eclectic, surprising, and enjoyable. The Annual Humboldt Arts Council Member Show is a juried exhibition that highlights the fabulous art produced by HAC Artist Members. We were truly impressed by the volume and quality of the submissions we received from all our artist members. The juror selected work from 101 entries; this was the largest turnout for this exhibition in the history of the HAC!