Eureka Street Art Festival Program 2021

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AUG. 714, 2021 THE 101 CORRIDOR THROUGH DOWNTOWN EUREKA During the week-long festival, artists will be painting murals and creating street art throughout Downtown Eureka, along the 101 corridor. We will not be hosting a Block Party this year, but we invite you to walk through the Festival area throughout the week to appreciate the creation of these large-scale pieces of art.

The mission of the Eureka Street Art Festival is to create intentional, accessible art that enlivens public spaces, stimulates community revitalization, and attracts visitors to Eureka.

FESTIVAL INFORMATION The Fourth Annual Eureka Street Art Festival (ESAF) is bringing color to the 101 corridor with 11 murals! For this year’s Festival, we are featuring all Humboldt County and California artists.

WELCOMING + WAY-FINDING This year’s theme is “ Welcoming + Wayfinding.” We are focusing on creating pieces that welcome all people to Eureka and brighten this highly-traveled corridor.

DAILY ART WALKS Monday - Saturday, 5:30pm. Meet at the Humboldt Cider Company, 517 F Street.

FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

www.EurekaStreetArtFestival.com

Find information + more at the Festival HQ, located at the Humboldt Cider Company Tap Room at 517 F Street. Buy merchandise at the Eureka Visitor Center (240 E Street).

ESAF is a DeamMaker Project of the Ink People Center for the Arts.

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We are very excited to be focusing on local artists this year. All Artists for the 2021 Festival are located in California.

ROBERT “ROBOT” ADAMS / Robot creates and exhibits engaging waste art as a tool to educate his community about pollution. He describes his art style as “unsupervised child in a hardware store,” and works mainly with aerosol paint, recycled found objects, and lights. From suits of armor made with aluminum soda cans to sculpted street plastic statuette scavenger hunts, Robot wants to invite others to interact with their community and think about our environmental impact through engagement with public art. Born in McKinleyville and raised in the Kinetic Universe, Robot tries to put fun first in everything he does. He is the director of the Kinetic Museum, ‘20 Rutabaga Queen, and April ’21 Artist for the Month for Eureka.

ALME ALLEN (Karuk/Yurok) / Alme is a well-received Native American artist in Humboldt County whose portfolio ranges from murals, traditional carvings, native- themed benches, carving instruction and youth mentoring. Much of the inspiration he draws upon as an artist is from his upbringing in Karuk territory along the Klamath River in Orleans, CA. Alme was enriched in native ways of life as a child, from ceremony, to art, to feeling a deep connection to the land and traditional foods that surrounded him. Those cultural values passed down from the preceding generations of traditional people are expressed through his artwork today. His work can be found in art galleries and installations throughout the community. Most notably, he designed benches along the Eureka Waterfront Trail that are concrete versions of traditionally carved redwood stools. The stools face each other in a semicircle on a painted ground mural that pays tribute to Indian Island, sacred land to the Wiyot people.

Allen’s hopes and intentions with this installation are to connect people with the environment and realize that all land is sacred.

JENNA CATSOS / Jenna is a Eureka-based illustrator who creates work under her business name, Pen+Pine. She is known for her whimsical line drawings that showcase nature and the north coast.

She has been on the west coast (Seattle, then Eureka) since 2010, but can’t shake her Massachusetts roots. She is a community organizer and public art enthusiast, and one of the organizers of the Eureka Street Art Festival.

MIR DE SILVA / Mir is a painter and illustrator based in Eureka, California. Her work utilizes positive imagery and vibrant colors to encourage civic engagement and environmental stewardship.

She graduated from HSU with degrees in art education and studio art in May, and divides her time between teaching and creating alongside the community.

TONY DIAZ / Tony is a Humboldt based artist who graduated from Humboldt State University in 2013 with a degree in printmaking in graphic design. As an illustrator, painter, printmaker and muralist his craft has opened doors from as far away as New Zealand to down the street on the Arcata Theatre lounge. Diaz’s creative vision has been inspired by psychedelic poster art, the human form, flora, horror films and creatures from the natural world. Since his last involvement in ESAF (2019), he has painted 13 murals including the Boon Street

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Art festival in Hamilton, NZ and Paint Memphis.

Tony has been commissioned and won contests by many businesses and musicians for merchandise, apparel, logo designs and posters. A few examples of recent project clientele have been the California Honeydrops, Heart of Humboldt, Dr. Greenthumb, Doggin Dirt band, Outside Indi’s coffee, and the Fairfield Marriott.

DIANA LYNN / Being a kid who drew pictures all day, Diana’s parents enrolled her in L.A.’s Chinourd Art Institute’s children’s program when she was six.

She stayed with art through high school, followed by a BA in art history, an MA in painting, and postgraduate study at UC Berkeley. Her paintings and installations have shown in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions, most recently at Black Faun Gallery. She co-owned an award-winning gallery in Santa Rosa, taught college art, and was an Artist-in-Residence for the CA Arts Council. Her exhibition, ‘Witness: Intimate Passages, Images of Birth and Death,’ was featured on KQED’s California Report. She also designs sets for NCRT and writes for national youth publications.

DAVE YOUNG KIM / Born and raised in Los Angeles, Dave attended the University of California, Davis before earning an MFA at Mills College. Being of Korean descent he draws from cultural history to create his contextualized works, where he uses the specific to talk about universal ideas of the human condition. Ultimately his work is premised on the idea that we are all looking for a place to call home.

JULIA MORGAN (AEROSE) / Aerose is a multimedia artist and muralist based in Humboldt.

Her work is a celebration of the eternal now, and empowered individuals thriving within it. Through painting, street art, video and fiber works, she explores human connection, nostalgia, and the inner landscapes that inhabit us all. Her work aims to envelope the mind and gaze of the viewer in the same way that we are held by feeling, each other and the cradling universe within which we dwell; encouraging the viewer to exist in the spaces between mind and matter, dreams and reality. The ultimate impulse behind her public work is to provide momentary liberation for the viewer from their day, their mind or their society by sharing with them the same alternate view she has creating new worlds, narratives and characters out of paint.

KATI “TEXAS” MOULTON / Kati has created dozens of works of public art in Humboldt County, both as Artist in Residence of the Ink People’s Rural Burl Mural Bureau and as an independent artist.

She is a Kinetic Sculpture Racer, prop builder, teacher, and designer whose work brings attention to the natural environment and the health of our living planet. Texas has a passion for creative reuse and sustainable art. She has twice won the title of “Trashionista Gloriosa” in the Kinetic Kouture Trash Fashion show. As the director of Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse, she helps turn potential waste into creative opportunities. As a Rutabaga Queen “Lotta Paintbuckets,” she encourages everyone to “Do ART!” As a Eureka City Council member, she works to help build a community that is responsive to our changing environment.

BLAKE REAGAN / For Blake, using art to portray civilization’s quest for achieving sustainable lifestyles has always been a primary mission. While expressing himself through traditional oil paintings, ceramic sculptures, larger than life murals, or live

performance fluorescent painting, the duality of the human experience can be seen throughout all of his work. For him, art acts as a catalyst to influence and adopt more viewers into practicing sustainability, establishing community based action, and pushing an agenda of an uplifting positive movement. In 2018 he became involved in mural projects throughout Humboldt County, and was a participant in the Eureka Street Art Festival. Thus reinvigorating a strong passion for creating large murals that the public can enjoy on their commute or during urban explorations, starting a campaign for the beautification of our public spaces. Though self taught, Blake received an A.A. in Liberal Arts at College of the Redwoods. Mostly working out of his studio in Eureka, he also paints at several events and festivals around Northern CA and Nevada.

LUCAS THORNTON / Lucas Thornton was born and raised in Humboldt County finding art at a young age. He’s lived and worked as a professional muralist for the past 20 years locally and abroad.

His style has a wide range and his scale of work is larger than life. His recently completed mural in Eureka is the “Art history trompe l’oeil,” mural on the Redwood Arts Association building at 6th and F st.

Other notable murals are the “Marbled Murrelet,” mural in Arcata and the “Welcome to Fortuna,” mural on Rays in Fortuna. His murals are always professional and enhance the community, he’s a true muralist. He can be reached at muralsbylucas@ gmail.com and Instagram @mrwoodfoot.

GINA TUZZI / Gina Tuzzi was born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA. She attended Humboldt State University, receiving a BA in painting and printmaking and later Mills College where she received a MFA in painting. Gina has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, is a Murphy and Cadogan fellow, a Facebook Artist in Residence and a two time SECA nominee. She teaches painting and drawing at Humboldt State University and lives in Blue Lake. She is represented

by Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico

MURAL APPRENTICE PROGRAM The Mural Apprentice Program is designed to help aspiring Humboldt County mural artists gain experience, network, and build their resumes.

ESAF wants to encourage the development of new local mural painting talent, and help artists gain the confidence and experience to create large-scale public art.

Apprentices will be paired with one of the mural artists in the 2021 Festival, and will assist and learn from them throughout the week. This program is made possible by funding from the Humboldt Area Foundation.

2021 MURAL APPRENTICES / Cate Be, Danielle Briscoe, Jaimal Kordes, Lydia Morris, Meredith Smith, Rosalie Thomson, and Tess Yinger.

HOW TO ENJOY THE FESTIVAL THIS YEAR: DAILY ART WALKS / Monday - Saturday, 5:30 Meet at the Humboldt Cider Company, 517 F Street.

WALK AROUND THE FESTIVAL AREA / Use your map to wander around the Festival area and watch the murals being painted throughout the week.

ENJOY THE EVENTS / Visit our website for a list of events happening during the week, from live music and art talks to drink specials + more!

...AND WHILE YOU’RE HERE / Support the Downtown and Old Town businesses!

ILLUSTRATED MAP BY PEN+PINE

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