HSU ART DEPARTMENT: NOW is the first in a three-part series of exhibitions to be presented by the university that will exhibit art by current and former professors and staff members in the Art Department. Two subsequent exhibitions will open later this year at the Reese Bullen Gallery, which will examine the artists and art instruction at HSU between 1914 and the early 2000s. The exhibition series will demonstrate the depth and the evolution of the visual arts at HSU.
“The students benefit greatly from the broad and diverse artistic backgrounds of the current staff and faculty of the H.S.U Art Department,” said Jack Bentley, Director of the First Street Gallery.“This portion of the exhibition series demonstrates how Humboldt State’s Art Department provides students with practical, living models of individual success in the art world, while providing them with the critical abilities to understand and interpret a variety of practices in the visual arts.”
The exhibit will give students and the public an opportunity to see how HSU instructors approach their own art, outside of the classroom. “We have a very talented and productive faculty who are as dedicated to their professional careers as artists as they are to teaching. They serve as role-models of working artists who teach,” said Teresa Stanley, HSU Art Department chairperson.
A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, September 7 from 6-9 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive event. Celebrating its fifteenth year of service to HSU students and the North Coast community, HSU’s First Street Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. and is located at 422 First Street, Eureka, California. Admission is free. Those planning group tours are encouraged to call ahead. For more information call 707-443-6363 or visit the gallery’s website at humboldt.edu/first.