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MORRIS GRAVES MUSEUM The Sculpture of Dan McCauley
Paul Flippen: 36days, January 5 - February 24
December 1 - August 25 Artist and welder Daniel McCauley of Dan’s Custom Metals learned the art form and technique of welding as a child in his grandfather’s machine shop. “I was always up there and got interested because I could take raw materials and make something,” McCauley says. McCauley’s scrap art is created with material he finds in scrap yards. The artist’s work is nothing if not sustainable. Turning objects that would otherwise end up in a landfill into things the community can gather around and enjoy is the essence of recycling. He also mimics nature’s art, as he builds realistic and life sized mountain lions and bears. McCauley also hopes by sharing his work he can encourage other people who dream of doing art to embrace their hopes and work to see their own pieces in the public eye.
I lost my father to a stroke his third day in the hospital. He didn’t die for another month. Thirty-six drawings of pen and ink layered over eroded surfaces of paint weave in and out of thirty-six text panels that detail my relationship with my father and my reactions to his passing. Shifting from crisp scientific renderings to the atmospherics of memory, the words and images navigate one account of modern medicine meeting family history.
20 Years: The Victor Thomas Jacoby Award, December 8 - January 27
February 23 - April 21 Nicole Havekost’s exhibition includes works from her Sewing and Cooking Doll series. This body of work was begun when her son was small and she was finding her way as a new mother. Since, the sewing pattern paper of the dolls surface has inspired new works exploring the body in a group of embroidered works and stitched three-dimensional forms.
Victor Thomas Jacoby was a local artist whose medium was French tapestry. He was internationally renowned for innovation in his field. When Jacoby passed away in 1997, he left a generous bequest to set up a fund with Humboldt Area Foundation, which would support visual artists and craftspeople, and encourage the exploration of new ideas, materials, techniques, mediums, images, and excellence. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Victor Thomas Jacoby Award and view the work of over 20 artists that the award has supported. The works of these grantees will be showcased alongside Jacoby’s tapestries and sketchbooks from the HAC Permanent Collection.
Chris Motley: Feelings in Fiber January 5 - February 17
Humboldt Collects, February 2 - March 17
Why are we a nation of storage units, packed basements, and reality TV shows about hoarding? Humboldt Collects presents extraordinary collections from Humboldt County residents, exploring the fascinating practice of collecting. Celebrating the intrinsic beauty and insightful stories found within the collections and the people who make them, this show examines how the items we collect inform notions of who we are as individuals and a community.
Nicole Havekost: Massed
Youth Arts Festival- Celebrating Humboldt County Youth in Visual and Performing Arts
March 2 - April 14 The Morris Graves Museum of Art in partnership with the Humboldt County Office of Education proudly presents the Youth Arts Festival; a celebration of student creativity in visual, media, and performing arts. This exhibition features various styles of visual artworks in both traditional and communication media created by Humboldt County preK-12 students in their public and charter classrooms during the 2018-19 school year. The exhibition highlights the promise of equity and access in quality arts education for all students preK-12, in every school, every day, made real by Humboldt County’s Arts Education Plan.
28th Annual Images of Water Photography Competition & Exhibition
CHRIS MOTLEY
Chris Motley’s sculptural forms use knitting in a unique way. She takes a familiar medium and expands its possibilities, using texture, color and dimension to explore universal themes. Often her sculptures tell personal stories. “Slice of Life,” like a tree, has a ring for each year of her life. “Living Alone” is about her Mother’s first year as a widow. “Up, Really Down and Up Again” reflects the changing moods of our daily life. Widely familiar in its usual functional form, knitting in her art brings the technique up to date. Motley has received wide recognition and critical praise for taking the craft of knitting and elevating the process into the realm of contemporary sculpture. 44 / The Palette
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quilting it with many threads which add depth and texture to her work.
Divine Providence, April 27 - June 2
Divine Providence features selected photographs, works on paper, and sculptures by three artists that each explore what it means to own and exploit a landscape. As a national debate rages over public control of land and resources, the Lee Running, Meredith Lynn and Nicole Jean Hill are interested in fundamental questions about how a struggle for dominance has impacted the current relationship to a sense of place and environmental stewardship in the American West. The artists grapple with the physical and cultural remnants that point to the struggle for power and mythmaking that molded the national character of western expansion. The works question the impact of this violent relationship to the natural world and critique a narrative that was written by men and glorifies a decidedly masculine relationship to the environment.
Ian Carey: Blunder-Bus, May 18 - June 30
This current body of work is a result of my reflections on an often confusing and absurd world. A world that beyond any existential belief is created by the actions and inactions of all those involved. I believe that my use of painting and drawing strategies is akin to thinking out loud. The process of making helps me to navigate my interaction with an extraordinarily complex and conflicting world. The
April 3 - May 12 Celebrating years of creative visions of water, this annual competition highlights the inspiring beauty of water. From images of lakes and streams to ice-cube trays and snow, Images of Water is a fun, theme-based show to take part in or to just take a look at. Open to all photographers, this is an exciting opportunity for all to become involved in the arts on the North Coast.
Pat Durbin: Picture this... April 20 - May 26
Pat Durbin is inspired by the beauty of creation. Many of the art pieces are large and most reflect the places in and around Humboldt County. The familiar medium of fabric and thread are her tools. She uses them to build works of art that bridge the gap between fine art painting and traditional quilting. Pat’s style is to complete a pictorial fabric piece by machine
IAN CAREY
