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2024 North Coast Open Studios

5/16/2024

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TAG Artists plan for North Coast Open Studios, June 1-2 and June 8-9

Trinidad Art Gallery carries the work of 25 local Humboldt artists, and we celebrate their work every day. On the weekends of June 1-2 and June 8-9, the North Coast Open Studio tour invites visitors to TAG to learn more about the magic of artmaking. Several of our artists will be available at the gallery to share their work and some will gives demos of their process. See below for detailed times. 

The artists participating in NCOS with TAG as their "studio" for NCOS weekends are Patricia Sundgren Smith, Donvieve, Sarah Magnuson, Christine Connerly, Tom Kingshill, Susah Kohl, Carolyn Cook, and Rachel Robinson.

Sat June 1:
Donvieve, 12 pm - 5 pm
Sarah Magnuson, both Saturdays all day

Sun, June 2: 
Christine Connerly, 10 am - 1:30 pm
Tom Kingshill, 1:30 pm - 5 pm

Sat June 8:
Susan Kohl, 12 pm - 5 pm
Sarah Magnuson, both Saturdays all day

Sun June 9:
Carolyn Cook, 10 am - 1:30 pm
Rachel Robinson, 1:30 pm - 5 pm
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2023 Events

5/25/2023

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Trinidad Art Nights  are held the last Saturday of each month from April - September. We host a reception and will showcase the Featured Artists of that month, as well as provide snacks, wine, and music to create a lively atmosphere full of art lovers and artists. 

Join us! See the Trinidad Art Nights page for more details, or contact the gallery for more information.
​(707) 677-3770  
[email protected]
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2022 Events

5/24/2022

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Trinidad Art Nights
​Trinidad Art Nights for 2022 are on the last Saturday of the month from April to September, and run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. The entire town of Trinidad hosts art events with live music, so come join the fun!

At our events we celebrate our month's featured artists along with music and snacks.​

North Coast Open Studios
We will be open for our normal hours during North Coast Open Studios, Sat/Sun June 4-5 and Sat/Sun June 11-12. Visit to see and support work by local Humboldt artists. 
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March 2020 Featured Artists

3/9/2020

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Maureen McGarry and Matthew Gagliardi
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Agate Beach, Patrick's Point
Maureen McGarry brings life to local landscapes with her luscious watercolor paintings. With depth of shadow and fluid lighting, there is a richness to her artwork. McGarry also  teaches watercolor painting to community members, reflecting on her surrounding environment. She says that Trinidad and other Humboldt scenery provide abundant inspiration for her paintings.

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Matthew Gagliardi showcases his blown glass artwork in the forms of bowls, tumblers, wine glasses and other sculptural vessels. He has been working in hot glass for 25 years, now working from his home studio. The glass comes alive as he swirls colorful glass highlights throughout the pieces. 

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February 2020 Featured Artists

2/1/2020

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Oceana Madrone and Kurt Hellmich
Featured Artists for February 2020

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Oceana Madrone’s fabric and bead work focuses on the beauty and magic of life in all of its complexity. Her work directly and honestly reflects the emotional and meaningful aspects of life with an emphasis on healing through the beauty and joy of art. She has done extensive work using quilts to help women and children heal their experience of violence and pain in their lives. She has helped survivors create over one hundred healing quilts. Her new display includes a soft sculpture, several beaded necklaces and a pair of wall quilts.


Her current themes for her line of fabric collage postcards are Mardi Gras and hearts just in time for Valentine’s Day. 

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​Madrone has been working with beads since childhood.

​“My art is my effort to create order out of chaos and to transform pain and survival into strength and beauty,” she said. “Art doesn’t make the hard things in life go away. It does help me to find joy and continue on my path of healing and discovery. I love the color, textures, and sparkle of fabric and beads. I create images of beauty and magic. Life is a magical gift.”


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​Kurt ​Hellmich, a “backyard artist” as he calls himself, grew up in the San Fernando Valley where his father was a cartoonist for Walt Disney when they still drew their animations by hand. It was natural for him to follow his father’s pattern of making a living through art, but instead of being called to drawing he followed his love for working in wood.

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​Hellmich — who moved to Humboldt County in 1979 — enjoys adapting recycled woods from deconstructed barns and driftwood. His work includes cribbage boards and hanging birdfeeders made with driftwood shapes. In his laminated wood cutting boards, he insets delightful handle images such as wooden kitchen knives, fish or guitars.

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7th Anniversary Party and featured artist reception for Patty Demant and Drew Forsell

11/8/2019

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7th Anniversary Party!
Reception for Patty Demant and Drew Forsell
November Featured Artists


Trinidad Art Gallery Party and Reception: Saturday, November 30th, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Music, snacks and libations will be available. Wine pour will benefit the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust.
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October 4th Featured Artist Reception

10/4/2019

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Oceana Madrone and Mara Friedman

Featured Artists for October 2019

Trinidad Art Gallery Reception: 
Friday, October 4th, 
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Snacks and libations will be available. Wine pour will benefit the Clarke Historical Museum.
Music by TAG members Howdy Emerson and JD Jeffries.
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​Oceana Madrone’s work directly and honestly reflects the emotional and meaningful aspects of life with an emphasis on healing through the beauty and joy of art. She has been working with beads since her childhood.

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​In her own words, "My art is my effort to create order out of chaos and to transform pain and survival into strength and beauty. Art doesn’t make the hard things in life go away. It does help me to find joy and continue on my path of healing and discovery. I love the color, textures, and sparkle of fabric and beads. I create images of beauty and magic. Life is a magical gift."

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Mara Friedman has recently brought her considerable experience and skills to the Trinidad Art Gallery with a rich background in a variety of art forms. After many years living in Hawaii and then the lush green Oregon countryside, the artist now makes her home with her husband Gus in the beautiful and wild northern California coast.

These days, she especially concentrates on musical mosaics composed of elk women and whales, hummingbirds and stars, dots, dashes, squiggles and swirls. Many of her new works include our whale kin, who for her are powerful allies of compassion and refuge in these turbulent times.​

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​Mara's images celebrate the feminine aspect of Spirit. Her imagery draws inspiration from cultures around the world, from the cycle of the seasons and from universal symbols and form. Her work echoes the blend of many diverse influences: the art of O’Keeffe and Chagall; Tibetan, Hindu, Aboriginal, African and Native American art; mystical Sufi poetry and Buddhist teachings


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September 6th Featured Artist Reception

8/23/2019

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Maureen McGarry and Donvieve

Featured Artists for September 2019

Trinidad Art Gallery Reception: Friday, September 6th, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Snacks and libations will be available. Wine pour will benefit Sequoia Humane Society.
Music by singer/songwriter Morgan Corviday, who will sing songs from the Woodstock era.


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​Maureen McGarry is a watercolor painter who primarily paints local landscapes. Also a teacher, she has offered classes to people of all ages over the past 40 years, primarily teaching art to children in many of the local schools.    

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​Inspired by a visit to the actual site of the infamous three-day concert in Bethel, New York, she will be available to sign prints of two watercolors paintings inspired by her experience there. Cards and a children’s book written and illustrated by the artist are also available at the gallery.


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​Donvieve
is a multi-dimensional artist/educator.  She creates masks that challenge our personal barriers and speak to our inner spaces.  Another longtime resident of Humboldt County, she is best known as a mask-maker.  She has conducted many art workshops, including in other countries.  

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​Primarily made from tanned leather, her masks are molded over a sculpted form and transforms them into a multitude of characters. Masks, cards, and a guidebook for incorporating art into school curriculum are available for sale at the gallery.

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August 2nd Featured Artist Reception

8/2/2019

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Matthew Gagliardi and Jim Lowry

Featured Artists for August 2019

Trinidad Art Gallery Reception: Friday, August 2nd, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Snacks and libations will be available. Wine pour will benefit Northcoast Environmental Center.
Music by singer/songwriter Margaret Kellerman.
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Matthew Gagliardi has always been attracted to the fluidity of working hot glass. He explains that most of the process of blowing soft glass is spent trying to influence a material that is not totally in a liquid form or a solid state, but tends to ebb and flow between the two. He says with some sincerity that when blowing glass his perception is often in a similar tidal pattern, drifting between daydreams in the etheric realms and physical reality, yet at the same time it requires his complete attention and total focus.

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​    Typical of many artists, he tells us that If he is not in his studio making glass, he is usually thinking about it while trying to do other things. "Most of my inspiration comes from geometric patterns and symmetry contained within the chaotic appearance in nature and the relationship of capturing and transforming light. I approach the material with the intention of process striving to achieve clean lines, symmetric proportions and refined craftsmanship." Gagliardi's works range from the utilitarian to elegant Venetian styles.


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    Jim Lowry’s photographs are collected internationally, and he has won a number of awards for his stunning photographs, including Photographer of the Year and a second place award for landscapes in the International Panoramic Photography Contest.
 
   Here in Humboldt County, Lowry is perhaps best known for his landscapes and beachscapes. While his use of color is always effective, he especially enjoys the stark minimalism of black and white photography, and he can be strongly reminiscent of Ansel Adams. 

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    For thirty years Lowry concentrated on painting and drawing. In 1998 he began exploring digital art which soon translated into digital photograph, and he has been working with this medium ever since.

 
   Lowry says, "The possibilities are infinite. I love the whole process; identifying dynamic possibilities, overcoming technical obstacles, shooting in many different ways and processing the images with my magic computer."

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July 5th Featured Artist Reception

7/5/2019

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Patricia Sundgren Smith and Elaine Y Shore

Featured Artists for July 2019

Trinidad Art Gallery Reception: 
Friday, July 5th, 
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Snacks and libations will be available. Wine pour will benefit Trinidad Coastal Land Trust.
Music by Penny Gunn and Son.


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  During the month of July, Trinidad Art Gallery will feature a new print by Patricia Sundgren Smith. She has expanded on her Japanese-inspired koi theme with a new, larger linocut, "Koi Beneath Bamboo." As with her other koi images, she incorporates Japanese decorative papers into the design.

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Patricia will also be exhibiting some of her past linocuts of birds, as well as her new series of egret and heron rookery collages. The birds are drawn on white or black printmaking paper, and then collaged onto two layers of decorative papers. The first layer is Murano paper, and the second is shredded and dyed amate bark from Mexico.


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  ​Elaine Y Shore has been developing her current style of ceramic art for more than ten years, although she was first entranced by the craft many years earlier. “Throwing a piece on the potter’s wheel is mesmerizing. It looks easy, but takes lots of practice and determination.”
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  After retiring from a long career in financial modeling, Elaine moved to Humboldt County to be a full time artist and grandmother. “Fortunately, I discovered the Fire Arts Center in Arcata and it has become my second home.”  
​  Elaine decided to specialize in wheel-thrown and hand built functional porcelain pieces, and uses various surface decoration techniques to interesting, complex surfaces.

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​  “I wanted to do more than simply dip my pieces in a glaze, so I started exploring other ways to provide visual and tactile interest and beauty”.
Her pieces have evolved to include colors and textures, using techniques that include carving, painting, applying colored clay or etching away clay, all of which result in a piece that is interesting to look at and a treat to use.



   Her current collection includes striking, black and white carved designs, and colorful, glaze-painted, textured designs inspired by the natural world.

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