Join the Humboldt Arts Council for Arts Alive on December 4

This is a press release from the Humboldt Arts Council:

Boats in Eureka Harbor by Sally Arnot

William Thonson Gallery

West Coast: Recent Gifts to the HAC

November 6 through January 2, 2022

Highlighting a selection of gifts to the HAC through the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, this exhibition presents a survey of prominent West Coast Artists that have influenced California’s artistic landscape from the sixties to now. View works by Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Stephen Kaltenbach as well as work by the countless artists that continue to create and have ties to the period where West Coast Art put California on the map. Established over three decades ago, the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, in Davis, CA has earned numerous honors, supported emerging artists, and advanced fine art with its dynamic and forward-thinking concern.

Anderson Gallery

Stephen Nachtigall: Languisher

October 9 through December 12

Despite being caught amidst indecipherable flows of information of our own making, we struggle and reach for meaning where sometimes there isn’t any pattern to latch on to. By consequence, we turn to shelter and protection in whichever personal form we may find it. Enclosed in our images, we seek our own patterns to transfix us, and the solidarity to strive for new paths through the noise. Languisher is a selection of digital collages presented as printed artifacts. Collected and generated over the course of the pandemic, these images represent the artist’s compounding reactions and emotional state during these strange times, rendered down into a more subtle and abstracted view of the world.

Knight Gallery

Portraiture & Process

October 16 through December 26

Throughout the course of art history, portraiture has remained a tried and true practice among artists. Transcending technique and style, portrayals are prevalent in every major movement, from the inspired Italian Renaissance to the Post[1]Modern and Contemporary period. View selections from the HAC Permanent Collection that couple artist portraits with the artist’s art. Viewers will get a visual sense of the person that created the art that accompanies it and will explore the diversity of mediums in both the artwork and the portraiture.

Floyd Bettiga Gallery

Kerry Rowland-Avrech

Rotunda Gallery

From the Permanent Collection

Museum Store/Permanent Collection Gallery

Visit the Museum Store for a selection of gifts and merchandise inspired by the artwork on view by Morris Graves, Glenn Berry, Melvin Schuler and Romano Gabriel. The Museum Store carries a wide selection of posters, contemporary art books, cards, exhibition catalogs, children’s books, note pads, tote bags, jewelry, wine glasses, and coffee mugs. Humboldt Arts Council Members receive a 10% discount on all merchandise in the store.

Homer Balabanis Gallery/Humboldt Artist Gallery

Venture into the Humboldt Artist Gallery in the Morris Graves Museum of Art—the perfect place to find that unique, original gift. The gallery features many exceptional Humboldt County artists currently working in our region.  Designed as an artist cooperative, the gallery features local artists working in a variety of media from representational and abstract paintings, prints, jewelry, photographs, and ceramics.

The Morris Graves Museum of Art, located at 636 F Street, Eureka is open to the public noon-5p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for seniors (age 65 and over), military veterans, and students with ID; children 17 and under free; Families with an EBT Card and valid ID receive free admission through the Museums for All initiative, Museum members are free. Admission is always free for everyone on the first Saturday of every month, including First Saturday Night Arts Alive!, 6-9 p.m.

To ensure the safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors we ask that guests continue to wear masks inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Sally by David Boston

Nachtigall Languisher