Gallery 1 — Which Way The Wind

Robin Hodson - Atomic Fire

Laura Cutler “OctoPoppins” is a character I created combining my love of the spirits of the Octopus and Mary Poppins. OctoPoppins is determined to save the world from threats of all kinds, including those caused by climate change. In this piece, she is collecting a wildfire in her signature carpetbag and bringing rain with her magical umbrella. I call it “Catching Fire”.

Augustus Clark Silver Spring Manifestations

Christine Kelly

Emily Silver My practice is driven by what Belden Lane, in The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, calls “acute, personal longing for fierce terrain”. Raised in Colorado in a family of geologists and artists whose bliss has been the history, science, and beauty of the surface of Earth, I’ve grown a deep affinity for deserts, places where the flux of wind, water, stone and sediment are especially manifest.. Key to my practice, maps and satellite images fulfill a childhood fantasy of being able to run my hands over landforms. The deepest part of me is engaged and mesmerized by the miraculous ability of painting to afford this sensation. “The physical act of painting is itself mysterious, profoundly disorienting,” said Darren Waterston. I’m amazed by the physical ability of sediment suspended in water to infer transformative experiences employing the same elemental forces that sculpt land. Paintings such as this one, composed of flows and aggregates of watercolor, pigment, salts, gravel, and sediments laid over cartographic skeletons or evidence of human activity–in this case a Persian garden–embody an effort to identify and map the emotional and poetic qualities of powerful places in a manageable, miniaturized form. By rendering visible the forces and structure of inaccessible terrain, my paintings aim to surprise and excite, to generate reverence for Earth–our mother, our source, our home–as if giving form to God. They emerge from my love of beauty and complexity, my natural intrigue with the remote and unknown, and, especially, my sense of touch. In this sense I intend my paintings to serve as synecdoches for the entire Earth. The Earth is precious; respect and care for it.

Asaf Kastel digital collage and paint. printed onto canvas.

Catherine Hart

Reuben Mayes I love to paint at least 4 times a week in the style of abstract expressionism. Due to my cerebral palsy, I have others help me incorporate other elements with stencil-work. My art store is at www.artinmyworkboots.com where you can purchase magnets, greeting cards, prints, t-shirts and originals of my work. I hope you enjoy my art, have a wonderful day -Reuben T Mayes, artist

Mare Johnston is an artist and musician. Mare holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry from California Institute of Integral Studies. She has been making things since the 1900s.

Ted Hsu is an up and coming artist and science writer working in Humboldt County. Having spent the past decade grinding as a neuroscientist, he is now shifting his priorities and communicating his experiences through artwork. Ted’s art aims to capture little moments that make him smile. The moments people sometimes overlook and take for granted when life gets busy. For Ted, those are the daily antics of his wife and cats. Ted’s work uses digital media, ink, and paper to create minimalistic scenes that he hopes will remind people to tune in and treasure the “mundane” things that bring warmth into our lives.

Cicely Ames An awareness of environmental changes and reading current information on environmental issues inspired me to create a piece about the white rhinoceros. They are endangered with only two female white rhinos left living in Savannah. They are a mother and daughter. This piece is a tribute to them.

Courtney Cross

Roxanne Andrade Hello my name is Roxanne I am a latinx artist, that is drawn to color and creativity. Experssing emotions and moments through art is something I try to give with my art pieces.

Allen Coller Local artist, I've lived in Humboldt since 1982 and revisted painting inmy mid sixties. I have done one Arts Alive showing in 2018.

Allen Coller

Amy Leon

Amy Leon Komorebi (sunlight through trees)

Amy Lein Seventy-seven years have passed since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where untold numbers of innocent civilian men women and children lost their lives in an instant while others later died from deadly side effects. These two unnecessary uses of nuclear force are the only times we have used atomic bombs in war. Komorebi represents the hope that 77 years ago we saw the light of wisdom to never unleash such horribly destructive power again.

Soodie Whitaker - The African Wild dog is an endangered animal. I’ve always liked dogs since I was a kid. When I was two or three, I had a dog named Fleegle. Since then, I have a place in my heart for dogs. With the idea of endangered animals, I wanted to create a painting of an endangered dog which led me to discovering the African Wild dog.

Jose Moreno 'm a freelance artist who focuses on figurative imagery dealing with nature, technology and consciousness. My current efforts involve understanding more of my cultural heritage and the ever evolving landscape of what it means to be human.

Joan GoldIn the house we lived in from the time I was three years old until I was nine, we had a basement playroom. It was an “unfinished basement” with rough unattractive walls. My mother undertook to upgrade the look of this space by pasting up wallpaper samples that she got from the house painter who lived next door. There were stripes and paisleys and plaids and lots and lots of flowers — big ones, little ones, buds, blossoms and leaves in all kinds of colors and patterns, impossible to coordinate into any sort of harmony. My brother and I played there while Mama was upstairs busy in the kitchen and Pop was in his shop in another part of the basement. The place smelled of the coal that went into the furnace and the sawdust my father made with his machines. It was a safe world. And one day it came apart. My father lost an eye in an accident and then his job as policeman and role as breadwinner. My mother went to work. The Second World War broke out. We had to move because the house we rented was sold. I was transferred to another school. My puppy was run over by a taxi and killed. As a ten-year-old Jewish girl I saw photos taken of the camps of the Holocaust. Not long after that I was moved to another school, one for gifted youngsters where I was the new kid again. I didn’t last long there. When I was fifteen my mother got sick; I was seventeen when she died. Amazing even to me I look back and see myself as fortunate. That early history set firmly in place the priorities that have guided me forever after. The joy I find in painting, using patterns, textures and stripes, and the pleasure of working with color was born of that early experience in the basement room. I bring serenity and peace to my world and work to make it visible.

Allen Coller

Augustus Clark River and Sky

Joseph Gelinski Life is being and becoming. What causes me to be who I am? You are today, an event happens, out of that event you become someone else. Events continually happen throughout our lives and form our view of the world.

Pat Kanzler I could draw since I could hold a pencil, but went to college for nursing, not art as I was a single mom; since 200, when my son was independent, I started teaching myself about color, design, dimensions, acrylic, and oils; but I have found it is better so speak through my artwork, I call it my naked emotions.

Pat Kanzler I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, but went to college for nursing, not art as I was single mom, since 2000 I started to teach myself about color, framework, design dimensions, and acrylics and oils, I have painted a lot and I call them my naked emotions; I need to keep my mouth shut for I tend to be too direct, so I let my artwork speak for itself!

Kjerstine Jennings A bit of blue between the falling tree ash: The new western reality.

Kjerstine JenningsShadows of paradise…

Matt Dodge Sculpted Photographs “Modern images that capture contemporary man’s celebration of the eternal Earth” responds Matt Dodge, when asked to describe his work. “In order to thrive,” he adds, “a huge slice of my soul demands active adventure, while another craves to create.” Combining the two, his work visually translates the intrinsic elation of outdoor engagement, when the synapses are firing and the soul rejoicing. He begins his creative process with photographs taken while pursuing outdoor activities. These images are digitally edited and printed on canvas. Next, color is applied by hand, using inks and dyes, pencils and pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolors. Outlines, designs and textures are then steadfastly and meticulously carved into the core of the canvas using rotary engraving tools and X-Acto knives. These steps are repeated as necessary, until the final image reveals itself. All resulting works, which he terms “Sculpted Photographs”, are one-of-a-kind treasures.

Matt Dodge Sculpted Photographs

Doug Freie My concerns for global warming - will we one day reach a point of no return?

Doug Freie

Erica Brooks Climate Change Project

Ninfa Mottershead Collateral Damage

Ninfa Mottershead Trapped

Julie McNiel The Three-Antler Deer. Note: Three-Antler Deer are a sub-species of Red Elk found near ancient nuclear dumpsites of the Anthropocene. This print was pulled at a press at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon, in September of 2022.

Sof Kastel nuke - digital pen art

Phil Gutierrez I am a retired Land Surveyor and have always been interest in photography. I am an amateur photographer and enjoy landscapes and bird photography from my kayak. This image was taken at sunrise from the boat ramp beneath the Samoa Bridge in Eureka looking east.

Julia Heatherwick Breathe

Patricia Semmott When faced with climate change and various manmade threats to our planet, it is only natural to wonder what will survive. That is how my Pondering series of drawings and paintings arose. After working primarily in monotype printmaking for many years, more recently I have been exploring Cyanotype alternative photography and sun-sensitive dyes. But throughout my life, there have always been Watercolors, and that is the medium I returned to for this Pondering piece. It is inspired by recent a camping trip on the Salmon River where insects, birds, late wildflowers and endless leaves, lichen, twigs and needles provide visual challenge.

Lori Goldman This piece is called sticks, strings and stories. I think it self explanatory. Please enjoy the sticks and stings and bark and tell your own story.

James Zeller “No Dollar Bills Were Hurt in the Making of His Bomb” is an attempt to express my dis-ease each time I see In God We Trust written on American money. How can a country that trusts God have such terrible weapons? I grew up going to episcopal church with my family, and I’ve struggled with the contradictions of living in a “Christian” country with by far the largest military on earth. I want to ask what would Jesus do? How can rationally, ethically pay federal taxes knowing half of it goes to military contracts?

Marcella Ogata-Day Trinidad

Taylor Macias Since 2020 I have taken the week after New Years for staying home, not leaving the house until I finish an illustration of the years biggest and most impactful news events. During the year I don’t have a chance to immortalize or even process the deeply disturbing events in the news and I find that taking time to examine the existential darkness of these times is, while disturbing, also cathartic. While 5e tradition is not old and the practice would perhaps be warned against by a therapist, I find that privately exploring my most myopic self is a necessary part of knowing myself and coming to terms with life today. It’s helps me remember which matters are the most important to me, it reminds me of my humanity when sometimes I lose touch with it, and it simply holds a mirror up to myself standing against a backdrop of humanity, for whatever that is worth.

Katherine Bettis I only learned about native bees a few years ago. How could I not have known about them? This comic is a basic explainer about native bees. (With a large helping of poetic license.) Hopefully people will laugh and learn!

Christy Tjaden no room for elephants

Katherine Bettis page 2

Matt Watts Traveling Light A lifelong artist formerly a native of The San Francisco Bay Area where I did all my shows and gallery participation. I've been retired for some years to care for my elderly mother, and due to the pandemic, ready to be out there again.

Julia Heatherwick Breathe Detail The inside of the Jimson Weed seed looks similar to a pair of lungs. Therefore, I selected it as the symbol of breath. The compounds contained in this plant are highly toxic. It was used in the late 19th century to temporarily relax bronchial spasms in asthma attacks. It has been used for hallucinogenic and medicinal purposes since ancient times. Although new advancements have been found to treat asthmatics, yesterday's “asthma powders” remind us that nature heals, and we must respect and protect our water, land, and air. How do you breathe? Some people take small sips; others hold their breath and then exhale in a deep sigh; you may have to remind yourself to take in a deep breath—a basic ingredient of life. Take a deep breath now.

Claire Iris Schencke The Romanche Glacier Glacier Alley, Beagle Channel, Chile As antropogenic global warming accelerates, glaciers have become an essential barometer measuring the health of the icecaps, the oceans and finally the planet itself. These majestic rivers of ice are thinning and retreating and we face the prospect of a world without them. I seek to bring the intense beauty of remote glaciers into your life and make their predicament real. (created from a water color sketch made on location in 2005)

Christine Kelly Photographic Composites

Allen Cassidy This piece is about conserving energy and natural resources because our wastefulness impacts the forests which affects the animals, wildlife, and habitat.

Lawrence Hansen

Cornelia Ray