Welcome to the 23rd Annual North Coast Open Studios!

Weekend 1 is June 3-4 and Weekend 2 is June 10-11. Studios are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, unless otherwise noted.

Join us this year for North Coast Open Studios Art Night, Friday, June 2, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A listing of participating artists and Art Night-specific maps are on pages 4-5.

North Coast Open Studios is an annual showcase of local artists and their art in Humboldt County. Included in this guide, you will find listings for artists who are opening their studios (their “natural habitats,” if you will) to the public, allowing art lovers a glimpse into the creative process.

Visitors to North Coast Open Studios will have an opportunity to see what happens inside an artist’s creative space. Meet the artists and see work from a wide array of art styles, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, glass, fiber, jewelry, ceramics, and more. During this free showcase for the arts, visit mid-career and emerging artists in traditional and non-traditional spaces. Talk to artists about their creative process, see their recent works, and purchase art.

WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NORTH COAST OPEN STUDIOS?

Visit our website at northcoastopenstudios.com for maps, additional images, artist information and more! Want to keep up-to-date on what is going on? Check out North Coast Open Studios on Facebook and Instagram!

How To Use This Guide

The artist listings are arranged alphabetically by community, listed regionally from South to North. Browse through to discover the artists you wish to visit. Check the maps, shown with each community listing, to find studios based on location. Looking for a specific artist? Check the Alphabetical index on page 38.

Each artist listing has general information about the artist, including an image of their work, the type of artwork they create, art categories (for the Visitor BINGO game on page 7), directions to their studio, contact information, and which weekend (or weekends) they will be open. Artist listings also tell you whether or not the studio is wheelchair accessible (wheelchair logo). You’ll see a mask logo alongside any listing where the artist is requiring visitors to wear a mask – listings without a mask icon may still require visitors to mask up before entering – they’ll let you know when you arrive.

At the end of the artist listings is a special section of artists who will not be open during either Open Studios weekend, but are open by appointment only, year-round. Also, if you can’t visit an artist during their open weekend, keep in mind that many artists enjoy visitors, and most will open their studios by appointment throughout the year.

However you plan your visit to North Coast Open Studios, you will find a dazzling display of fine arts and crafts to fit all styles and budgets. Get to know your local artists and enjoy the amazing variety of art Humboldt County has to o er!

North Coast Open Studios is a free event, so there is no admission charged at any venue.

North Coast Open Studios is a DreamMaker project of the Ink People Center for the Arts, and is supported by Humboldt County artists, businesses, and community members like you. NCOS would not be possible without the generous support of many people.

First and foremost, thank you to the artists who start responding to my registration emails as soon as the link goes live. Decades long participants and folks who are new to the event hold the same amount of space in my heart. Y’all are what I love about this event.

Thank you to my partner, Robot Adams (and by extension, his best friend Heather), who feeds me snacks, delivers hydration and ca eine (and the occasional migraine pill) as needed, and gets me out of the house when I’ve done nothing but stare at the registration

Almquist Lumber

Arcata Main Street (Arts! Arcata)

Art Center

Coast Central Credit Union

Cypress Grove Chevre

Dick Taylor Chocolates

Eureka Chamber of Commerce spreadsheet and guidebook proofs for hours on end. And my kiddo, Alton, who hears me say “event season” and knows that means we’ve got hours of studio visits in our near future.

Thank you to Holly Harvey, our Guidebook Layout Goddess at the North Coast Journal, who makes this guidebook look great, as well as providing the moral support I need to navigate Adobe Illustrator for map numbering, every year. And huge thanks to Barb at the 101 Things Publication who created the Big Lagoon map for me! What a sanity saver.

Thank you to my Ink People co-workers, Executive Director Leslie Castellano and Administrative Assistant Jenny Downs, my in-house steering committee, who shared high fives and matched my excitement about participating artists and sponsors.

Thanks so much to the volunteers who

SPONSORS

Eureka Main Street (Arts Alive!)

Fieldbrook Winery

Holly Yashi

Humboldt Arts Council

Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission

It’s Alive Kombucha

Patterson Conners Insurance

Phoenix Ceramic Pierson Building Center

Scrapper’s Edge Westhaven Center for the Arts (Trinidad Art Nights)

Wildberries Marketplace helped wrangle the May Art Show and Arts Alive reception, as well as my co-worker Gabrielle Gopinath who helped spread the word about the event.

And thank you to Jay Tilghman, digital media mentor of the Ink People’s MARZ Project, for designing our poster, and MARZ music mentor Cory Goldman, for providing music for the Arts Alive reception.

Finally, but certainly not least, thank you to our sponsors! With rising costs every year, it’s our sponsors who have kept the registration fees steady for the participating artists, and that is no small accomplishment. This event couldn’t happen without all of you!

— Monica Topping Coordinator & Participating Artist, North Coast Open Studios

Donations to North Coast Open Studios are appreciated and help us keep this nonprofit event going! They can be made to the Ink People Center for the Arts, 627 3rd Street, Eureka, CA 95501. Please earmark all donations for NCOS in the memo line.