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Requisitioning Freedom: Indigenous Artists of the Americas - embracing identity, overcoming colonialism, fighting for our future.
Anderson Gallery
May 24 - July 6, 2025
Through drawing, painting, and making ceremonial objects, artists can confront and process intergenerational trauma, reclaim identity, and share their voices. This exhibition invites the public to witness the resilience, beauty, and spiritual depth of Native American artists, challenging perceptions and opening hearts. Access to the arts in prison supports personal growth by helping individuals strengthen self-knowledge, identity, and connection to their communities and cultures—an especially vital opportunity for Native Americans, who are incarcerated in California at twice their population rate. In Humboldt and Del Norte counties, where strong traditions of Native American art thrive among tribes such as the Yurok, Wiyot, Hoopa, Karuk, and Tolowa, creative expression offers incarcerated Indigenous people a powerful link to heritage, healing, and community.
Suk Choo Kim: Beyond Photography
Thonson Gallery
June 14 - July 20, 2025
“Beyond Photography” began in the early 1970s when Suk Choo Kim experimented with Polaroid SX-70 film, manipulating the emulsion to create painterly, jewel-like images. Though limited by the small format, the project planted a lasting creative seed. Decades later, after a gastric cancer diagnosis, Suk Choo returned to the concept with renewed purpose, using his studio time as therapy. This exhibition honors his 54-year journey in photography and celebrates his dedication to pushing the boundaries of the medium until his passing in 2024.
Maureen McGarry: Celtic Origins
Finding Perspective in the land of my Ancestors
Knight Gallery
May 3rd - June 15th
From the moment I stepped on the tarmac of Dublin Airport in 2016, 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 know I would return someday.
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That day arrived on July 1st, 2024. With support from the Faben Artist Fund, I had the opportunity to attend a month-long artists residency at Watershed Studios, just outside of Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The road in front of the residency leads straight into Connemara, a region I had promised myself to return and paint. And paint I did! Tagged on to the end of my month-long stay were visits to the two countries where my ancestors lived before emigrating to America, Antrim in the North, and Cork in the South. My paintings are a celebration of the continuously stunning landscape of Ireland, and my ancestral home, a land of friendly, courteous people, with lovely Irish accents, and a culture rich in all of the arts.
From the HAC Permanent Collection: Morris Graves, Glenn Berry, Bruno Groth, Melvin Schuler & Romano Gabriel
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the HAC's superb holdings of North Coast fine art from the twentieth century. It incorporates a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, decorative and folk arts. Though the exhibition is ongoing, the installation is updated regularly. Please call ahead for details on current exhibitions. 707-442-0278
