Anderson Gallery

This exhibition emerges from our individual and collaborative explorations of resilience and regeneration. Through sculpture, mixed media, and works on paper, we document and interpret the cycles of renewal witnessed in our natural world and in traditional cultural practices. These collaborations are rooted in place and in conversation, and emerge during our visit to landscapes marked by fire, water, and ancestral significance.

Thonson Gallery

Marceau Verdiere is a French-born, California-based artist whose work explored the emotional and aesthetic resonance of the passage of time. For over two decades, his practice —Abstract oil painting and photography—has focused on memory, impermanence, and the quiet beatu found in worn and weathered surfaces. Living textures of his surroundings and the emotional traces they carry. In addition Verdiere has been influenced by his extensive travels around the world and the humans and artists he encounters. In Japan, he began to engage with and study traditional Japanese transience.

Anderson Gallery

Wiedel has been living and working in Eureka, California since 1991, and his narrative paintings have been inspired great by the local community and it’s landmarks. His work also incorporated stories and landscapes in the Mojave desert region. Wiedel studied art at Shasta College in Redding, California, and at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his degree in painting in 1988. His work has been exhibited in many places in Humboldt, as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Portland and Joshua Tree. Most recently he was exhibited in London and Berlin. Wiedel’s paintings have been described by others as “a cross between VanGough, Brugel, and Mike Judge.” His imagery teeters between depictions of gleeful celebration of life and hard luck stories of failure.

Thonson, Knight and Bettiga Galleries

Beyond Photography started in the early 1970s when Suk Choo Kim experimented with Polaroid SX-70 film, manipulating the emulsion to create painterly, jewel-like images. Despite the small format limitation, the project initiated a lasting creative interest. Decades later, after a gastric cancer diagnosis, Suk Choo revisited the concept, using his studio time for therapeutic purposes. This exhibition acknowledges his 54-year journey in photography and highlights his contributions to the medium until his passing in 2024.

ANDERSON GALLERY

One of the best reasons for including access to the arts in prison is that art helps people strengthen their self-knowledge, identity, and connection to their communities and culture. All of those are fundamental to personal growth, and to being able to develop awareness of both the consequences and underlying causes of one’s behavior. Since Native Americans are incarcerated in California at twice their proportion in the state population, this potential for healing and growth is vital. 

KNIGHT GALLERY

From the moment I stepped on the tarmac of Dublin Airport in 2016, I felt the thrill of achieving my lifelong goal of visiting Ireland. I felt I had somehow returned to a place I had known from a time before, maybe a lifetime before. Soon, I was driving (on the left-hand side of the road) through Ireland’s lush countryside. I had never seen so many shades of green! For two short weeks I drove two-thousand miles around the Emerald Isle, taking in as much of the beauty as I could of this magical place. When I returned home, I painted many of the scenes I had passed through. I would return someday.

THONSON GALLERY

In 1994, Karla Kaizoji Austin and Amy Uyeki assembled the first show of Asian Artists in Humboldt County entitled Made in America at the old Ink People gallery. Fast forward 31 years and this is one of the follow up shows to the original. Over the years times have changed and artists and media have changed. However, the creativity, artistry and intent remain. The selected artists all present a strong sense of creativity, originality and their work reflects their cultural roots. The work ranges from traditional style landscape/portraits to contemporary street art. Included are painters, ceramicists, mixed media artists, digital artists, photographers and videographers. They work in various media including Chinese Brush painting, ceramics, photography, spray paint, mixed media sources from nature, airbrush, and digital media. There are a wide variety of backgrounds ranging from a self taught Sennsei Japanese artist to national and international artists. This show aims to showcase a sampling of the work of these artists.

Artists include: Karla Kaizoji Austin, Cate Be, Jeremy Hara, Ted Hsu, the late Suk Choo Kim, Ali Lee, Thao Le Khac, Amy Leon, Annette Makino, Yoshiko Skelton, Amy Uyeki and Libby Yee.

ANDERSON GALLERY

Lahr’s paintings combine darkly comic texts with appropriated images, creating shifting narratives of working-class male identity. The work draws from feminism, narrative theory, contemporary and postmodern fiction, semiotics, and film theory to explore the formation and shaping of masculinity through mass culture. The images are pulled from a wide range of popular and sub-cultural ephemera while the texts are fragments that suggest their excision from a larger story and give the reader/viewer flashbulb glimpses at moments of narrative action. Centering on female characters that occupy positions of authority and male characters who are injured, inept, defeated, or perplexed by their dealings with women, the texts and images form narratives which question the wash of expectations and assumptions we experience and create through popular culture.

Knight Gallery

In Whispers of the Earth: Impermanence Through a Wabi-Sabi Lens, Dana Mano-Flank invites viewers to pause and reflect on the quiet, transient beauty of nature through the prism of the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. Rooted in an appreciation for impermanence and imperfection, Dana’s mixed-media paintings celebrate the delicate balance between nature’s cycles and humanity’s place within them.

Thonson Gallery

After a pandemic-related hiatus, the HAC is excited to bring back one of our longest running juried exhibitions--Images of Water! Celebrating 28 years of creative visions of water, this annual competition highlights the inspiring beauty of water. From images of lakes and streams to ice-cube trays and snow, Images of Water is a fun, theme-based show to take part in or to just take a look at. Open to all photographers and photography disciplines, this is an exciting opportunity for the residents of California to become involved in the arts on the North Coast.

Youth, Bettiga and Knight Galleries

The Morris Graves Museum of Art in partnership with the Humboldt County Office of Education proudly presents the Youth Arts Festival; a celebration of student creativity in visual, media, and performing arts.

This exhibition features various styles of visual artworks in both traditional and communication media created by Humboldt County pre K-12 students in their public and charter classrooms during the school year. The exhibition highlights the promise of equity and access in quality arts education for all students preK-12, in every school, every day, made real by Humboldt County’s Arts Education Plan. The festival itself is the living portfolio, where all who attend may see for themselves the inspiration and creativity inherent in all of Humboldt County’s Youth. We welcome students, parents, teachers, artists, and community members to see, hear, and feel what has been taught and experienced in so many classrooms across Humboldt. Become the beneficiary as you stand in wonder at what our children are capable of; the enormity of their creative dreams becomes immediate and evident, viewed in the context of a historical museum. Join us in this annual culminating event that celebrates the creative power of all students of Humboldt County.

Anderson Gallery

Lisa Marie’s aesthetic sensibility is rooted in Central American Folk Art and the Mexican Catholic shrines of her heritage and upbringing in Tucson, Arizona. Deliberate with showcasing the “handmade” quality of her work, she uses low-tech methods to create large assemblage ceramic sculptures and installations, as well as mixed media quilts, pottery, and clothing. Her work encompasses imagined conceptions of home, gardens, peacefulness, playfulness, and celebration. She strives to have her work be accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Thonson Gallery

Lisa Marie’s aesthetic sensibility is rooted in Central American Folk Art and the Mexican Catholic shrines of her heritage and upbringing in Tucson, Arizona. Deliberate with showcasing the “handmade” quality of her work, she uses low-tech methods to create large assemblage ceramic sculptures and installations, as well as mixed media quilts, pottery, and clothing. Her work encompasses imagined conceptions of home, gardens, peacefulness, playfulness, and celebration. She strives to have her work be accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Lisa Marie lived for several years in the San Francisco Bay Area before beginning a professorship at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is currently a full professor there, teaching ceramics and leading interdisciplinary academic programs. She has exhibited in over 50 solo exhibitions across the country, and has served as an Artist-in-Residence at multiple notable venues, including the City University of New York, Hunter College; Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis; Watershed Center for Ceramic Art, Newcastle, ME; and Clay Studio of Missoula, Montana. She has received numerous honors and led workshops from New York to California.

Knight Gallery

Reflecting on our complex, evolving relationship with the natural world using driftwood and spray paint. Humans once coexisted with Nature in a balanced relationship. Together, we lived harmoniously and in abundance on Earth. That is, until Man created and then began exploiting technology. This exhibit of driftwood sculptures and sprayed paintings portrays our complex and evolving relationship with Nature.

Description text Sculptures are made with as few, as-found pieces of driftwood as possible. Minimal shaping may aid assembly or recognition. Some oil paint may camouflage distracting elements. Paintings are sprayed on canvas. Pen, brush or sponges used on occasion. The simplified images are drawn/designed in a square, iconic format.

Thank you to Holly Yashi and Crestmark Millwork for their generous support!goes here