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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.
Ten Thousand Gates – A Celebration of Humboldt Asian American Artists
Thonson Gallery
April 26 - June 8
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.
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.
Egyptian Masks
Freshwater Elementary
Youth Art Gallery
April 5 - April 27
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
