Lucia Jane Rodriguez, The High Priestess, 2025 Permanent Collection Purchase Prize

This exhibition showcases the achievements of Cal Poly Humboldt’s graduating Art majors. Featuring a broad range of forms and styles, and influences. Students work in a range of media concentrations within ceramics, painting, photography, printmaking, small metals, sculpture and digital arts.

Graduate Art Majors/Minors (Fall 2025/Spring 2026/Fall 2026) invited to enter works into the 2026 Exhibition, Intake Dates: Mon-Wed 3/23-25

Entry link coming soon.

This exhibition focuses on the Karuk Artist’s archive made a part of the Cal Poly Humboldt Special Collections in 2023. Brian D Tripp passed away in 2022, and his legacy lives on through his artwork and the Red House People Fund run by the Tripp estate benefitting California Native Artists and Arts.

More information about the collection here: https://www.humboldt.edu/special-collections/brian-d-tripp-papers-findi…

Presented by our Spring 2026 John S. and Lona B. Edwards Artist-in-Residence Davey Whitcraft, Acceleration Protocol questions how bodies relate to extractive capitalism through three sites of voluntary exhaustion: solo endurance sports, outdoor lifestyle culture, and techno music. Bob Villain, a spirit guide embodying the logic of extraction and self-depletion, performs ritualized studies in the redwood forest, from paganistic outdoor gear ceremonies to techno-accelerated collapse.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​