Third Street Gallery archive: 2013 Exhibitions: HSU Art Department: Now

In celebration of Humboldt State University’s centennial year, a faculty and staff exhibition showcasing the talent of the artists who currently teach and work in Humboldt State’s Art Department will be featured at Humboldt State University First Street Gallery in Old Town, Eureka, California. The exhibition will display a wide range of themes, styles and media. The exhibit will run from August 20 through September 15.

HSU Art Department: Now  is the first in a three-part series of exhibitions to be presented by the university that will exhibit works of art by current and former professors and staff members of the Art Department. Two subsequent exhibitions will open later this year at the HSU Reese Bullen Gallery, which will examine the artists and art instruction at HSU between the years of 1914 and the early 2000s.  The exhibition series will demonstrate the depth and the evolution of the visual arts at Humboldt State University.  

“The students benefit greatly from the broad and diverse artistic backgrounds of the current staff and faculty of the H.S.U Art Department,” commented 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.”

This particular exhibition will give students and the public an opportunity to see how the instructors at H.S.U. 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 an inspiration to their students as role-models of working artists who teach,” states Teresa Stanley, the HSU Art Department Chairperson.

A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, September 7th from 6-9 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive event.  Celebrating its fifteenth year of service to HSU students and to the North Coast community, Humboldt State University 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.