Local Student Wins Congressional Art Contest

By Kimberly Wear on May 12, 2023 at 1:05PM

Photos: 39th Annual Lantern Floating Festival

By Mark Larson on August 9, 2022 at 5:22PM

A large crowd returned for the in-person 39th annual Arcata Lantern Floating Ceremony on Saturday evening at Klopp Lake in the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary after a two-year pandemic break. The emotional event, linked to the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, was described by organizers as "an opportunity to offer spiritual consolation for everyone affected by the pandemic, those we miss, departed loved ones, ancestors and all we hold dear."

Former Arcata McKinley Statue May Soon Have a New Home

By Kimberly Wear on July 29, 2022 at 5:16PM

The Arcata City Council took the official vote in February of 2018 — the culmination of more than a decade of efforts by removal advocates who viewed McKinley's likeness sitting court in the town's center as a vestige of American imperialism and genocide — but another year would pass before a decision was made to send the statue to Canton and the dismantling process commenced. (Arcata voters overwhelmingly rejected a November of 2018 ballot measure that would have prohibited the city from modifying, destructing or relocating the statue.)

Artist, Poet, Activist and Karuk Ceremonial Singer Brian Tripp has Died

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on May 16, 2022 at 3:38PM

After a long and painful battle with illness, 77-year-old Brian D. Tripp, born in Eureka and raised in Klamath, died May 13. A nationally renowned artist whose work echoed traditional forms in painting and sculpture, Tripp was the 2018 recipient of the California Living Heritage Award from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.

Photos: Celebrating Charlie Moon, Chinatown and the Year of the Tiger

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on May 10, 2022 at 5:05PM

The rain held off Saturday afternoon as a grateful crowd gathered by Dave Kim's mural "Fowl" on E Street between Fourth and Fifth streets for a ribbon cutting ceremony for Charlie Moon Way. The street sign on the alley bisecting the block where Eureka's Chinatown stood pays homage to Moon, one of the Chinese residents who resisted and remained in Humboldt County after a white mob expelled most Chinese in 1885 under threat of hanging.

Heading for Charlie Moon Way

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on November 7, 2021 at 12:04PM

This summer during the Eureka Street Art Festival, artist Dave Young Kim painted a mural depicting a Mandarin duck and Ben Chin, the first Chinese American to open a business in Eureka in 1955, 70 years after the mass expulsion of Chinese people from the town. That mural, emblazoned with the word “hometown,” stands in an alley between E and F streets and Fourth and Fifth streets, where Eureka’s Chinatown once served as home to more than 200 immigrant workers.

North Coast Otters Art Initiative Raises $300,000

By Iridian Casarez on October 22, 2021 at 10:35AM

Read the full press release below. North Coast Otters Art Project Raises $300,000

North Coast Otter Sculpture Auction and Preview

By Iridian Casarez on September 9, 2021 at 12:01PM

Did you get a chance to hunt for any of the 108 North Coast Otter Art Initiative otter sculptures throughout Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Trinity and Siskiyou counties this summer? If not, no sweat!

Time to Start Looking for Otter Sculptures!

By Iridian Casarez on June 22, 2021 at 3:25PM

Happy hunting! 100+ Otter Sculptures on Display in Public Arts Initiative to Raise Awareness about California's River Otters

North Coast Night Lights: Eclipse of the Super Flower Moon

By David Wilson on June 10, 2021 at 1:00AM

Our eyes see the world moment-by-moment, and staring into the night for seconds at a time does not make the night any brighter. But unlike our eyes, the camera’s patient eye in this case gathered light for a full thirty seconds, building up the image lightness and detail with each passing second.