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.