Highlights of July’s Arts Alive! in Eureka
Original artwork by Ian Carey [Photo submitted]
July Arts Alive!
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William Thonson Gallery
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: Spirit of the Day
July 6 to August 11
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda is a visual artist working primarily on painting. Her multicultural background through travels and immigration from Japan to the United State as a young adult has formed her interests in examining various cultures. To speak to the core of humanity, she seeks the connections among cultures both from the past and present, and she focuses on tracing traditional Japanese activities back to their origins through her research.
Spirit of the Day is an attempt to highlight an oft-forgotten engagement in contemporary society—a deeper connection with their own spirit. The paintings present a moment of this spiritual engagement through mindfully cultivated marks on the surface. Sumi-ink brings out subtle and nuanced shifts in values and highlights a myriad of layers so that viewers may get lost in them and find their core of shared humanity and the core of their humanity.
Anderson Gallery
Miya Hannan: Layered Stories
June 8 to July 14
For the last 13 years, I have been working on installations, sculpture, and drawings that are driven by my cultural perception of death. After working for a hospital and experiencing death for seven years, I came to view the world as layers and linkages of histories. This exhibition “Layered Stories” depicts this view. Every dead person becomes a part of our land both physically and spiritually, creating rich histories around us. In my home county Japan, people inherit the histories of the land where they live. Whatever happened and whoever died underneath one’s feet become a part of one’s own story. I am interested in stories buried beneath the present layer.
Knight Gallery
Wesley Hurd: The Odyssey of These Days
June 1 to July 7
Wesley Hurd’s painting series, The Odyssey of These Days, explores intimate depths of loss, struggle, grief and hope. The paintings present an abstract visual narrative evoking
Original artwork by Nishiki-Sugawara-Beda [photo submitted]
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Where are these galleries? We are regular participants and have never heard of these galleries. I note that they don’t have locations listed. Are they the individual galleries at the Morris Graves?
They are galleries at the Morris Grave Museum. It has seven.