The Reese Bullen Gallery presents the work of the 2022 graduates of the Art Department. Featuring a variety of work  reflecting the Cal Poly Humboldt Art Department’s range of media concentrations, from jewelry, digital arts, painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, illustration and drawing.

We also celebrate the achievements of the graduates with college and community focused awards including the 2022 Permanent Collection Purchase Prize award. 

The exhibition will run through Commencement on Saturday May 14th, with a reception to follow the College of Arts Humanities & Social Sciences commencement ceremony. 

2022 Exhibititing Art Graduates 

• Bryanna Ahlf
• Natalie Alfaro-Rivas
• Gabriel Burbank
• Ciara Craig
• Toni DeAmicis
• Luz Elena
• Olivia Fox
• Karissa Haff
• Caroline Holmes
• Brandi Hoyt
• Lisa Heikka Huber
• Phoebe Hughes
• Cita Hunter
• Michele Janelli
• Kaitlyn Ladines
• Sarah Levi
• Josie Licavoli
• Caitlin McVey
• Jack Miklik 
• Kylie Maxfield
• Marlena McVey
• Emily Newark
• Mikayla Nicholas 
• Mia Page
• Alyssa Ravenwood
• Elise Riegelsberger
• Karley Rojas-Vienneau
• Melodie Sidhu
• Vivian Dawn Spear
• Mia Stover
• Piper Stallings
• Mia Stover
• Rainey Strippelhoff 
• Rebecca Suen
• Sabrina Ochoa
• Annalisa Olson
• Esteban E. Vega

The 2023 Cal Poly Humboldt Art Department Graduates Exhibition opens on Thursday, April 20th, with a reception, 5-7pm, in the Reese Bullen Gallery. The show will run through May 13th.

This exhibition showcases the achievements of Humboldt’s graduating Art majors and minors. It features a broad range of forms and styles, reflecting students’ diverse identities and influences, as well as the range of media concentrations - from painting, ceramics, photography, and printmaking to jewelry, sculpture and media arts - within the Cal Poly Humboldt Art Department. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our emerging artists!

An Awards Ceremony will be held marking the achievements of our graduates, featuring a Permanent Collection Purchase Prize, other monetary awards and prizes from the department and community. The Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday April 20th from 5pm-7pm, with the Awards Ceremony beginning at 5pm at the steps of the Art Department. Immediately following the ceremony the exhibition will open with light refreshments. 

The exhibition runs through Saturday May 13th, and will be open immediately following the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Commencement Ceremony.

Derek Abarca • Zetzengari Alvarez • Isla Andrews • Matt Aung • Maile Barnard  • Andrew W. Chambliss • Jem Chrisman • Amanda C. Deal • Francesca Falzarano  • Madeleine Fisher • Jade Gibbs • Sean Grimes • Alyssa Hinkley • Alisa Ibyadullin • Bee Langholz • Melissa Lefebvre • Chloé McClellan • Meghan McLeod • Sara Olsen • Em Pichel • Emily Rune • Claire Rogers • Emily Rune • Sonia Sanchez • Justine Savedra • Abigail Stevens • Jacqueline Vasquez • Valie Ward • Art Wardynski • Maria Zamora

This exhibition showcases the achievements of Cal Poly Humboldt's graduating Art majors and minors. It features a broad range of forms and styles, reflecting students’ diverse identities and influences, as well as the range of media concentrations - from painting, photography, and printmaking to jewelry, sculpture and media arts - within the Cal Poly Humboldt Art + Film Department. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our emerging artists!

Taeler Almaraz, Sawyer Armitage, Chloe Becker, Lance Gabriele Bensan, Maggie Blecha, Bridget Brown, Jolie Chaidez, Lacey Condon, Raelynn Davis, Joe Doty, Ruthann Goodfield, Lauren House, Hunter Howe, Li Jacobson, Karina Juarez, Tava Lawrence, Ares Munguia, Paige Main, Rain Marsh, Jesse Morales, Rachel Morris, Nikola Nardell, Maria Ortega, Elexa Kaisu Poropudas, Amanda Robertson, Susana Rodriguez, Michael Rothman, Regina Salomon, Rebecca Sutter, Sebastian Taylor, Cielito Valles, Nicole Velazquez, Morgan Warnock, Cello Wicklin, & Taylor Woodruff

Celebrating an art career of over five decades, this exhibition brings work together from 1969 to the present by Karuk artist Brian Tripp. Loaned artwork is from the local Humboldt community who celebrated and supported Tripp through his career, ranging from printmaking, painting, drawing, poetry and sculpture. The range of work highlights Karuk worldview and culture through visual imagery, material, and story. Open to in-person viewing five days a week, and presented virtually below.

The Goudi'ni Gallery is located on the ground floor of the BSS Building, located near 17th and Union Street. We ask that all visitors to wear facial coverings while on campus and in the gallery, and abide by current county public health guidelines. For more information please contact the Gallery Director, Brittany Britton, at rbg@humboldt.edu

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An exhibition focusing on the life and artwork of Wiyot artist Rick Bartow, coinciding with the openings of the film series from the Bartow Project, a joing collaboration with the Wiyot Tribe and Dell'Arte International. The exhibition works to show artwork and objects that help re-introduce Rick to the community that are his homelands.

Check out The Bartow Project Films for upcoming screenings, online events and more.  

Special thanks to the Froelick Gallery, Alme Allen, Soleil Deknatel, Cheryl Seidner, Jennifer Weiss for their loans of artwork and stories to the exhibition. Thanks also to the Bartow Estate, Dell'Arte International and the Wiyot Da Gou Rou Louwi' Cultural Center. 

After trampling in the muddy rice fields of rural Vietnam then wandering supermarket aisles in the United States, Millian Pham received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and her MFA in sculpture from the University of Florida. Currently based in Alabama, teaching in the College of Arts at Auburn University, we are overjoyed to have Millian’s body of work, Double Vision here at the Reese Bullen Gallery. 

Artist and Educator Pham’s art practice uses personal and cultural signifiers of her native Vietnam and adopted America in the mediums of painting, printmaking, and installation. Pham states, “My art making is code switching. Each work experiments with the aesthetic codes and conceptual framework of multiple cultures, art mediums, and languages. I test out new ways to convey an idea through a pluralism of perspective by switching visual codes through juxtaposition and obfuscation.”

In a series of 8 new tapestries that are over 10 feet tall, creating a series of dividers in the Gallery space, Pham utilizes “ images and texts from my native Vietnamese with adopted American cultures using lustrous paint and other aesthetic references to lacquer art. I’m interested in highly abstracting these words to the point of near illegibility, hiding phrases, and presenting them as ambiguous visual puzzles. “ 

Millian Giang Pham will be in humboldt for a 2 day engagement with students and classes here at the Art + Film Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. With workshops for students, as well as a public Artist Talk Thursday September 26th at 5pm, at ArtB 101 across from the Reese Bullen Gallery during the Opening Reception. 

The exhibition Double Vision will run from September 19th through October 18th at the Reese Bullen Gallery. We will hold an Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Pham on Thursday September 26th from 4:30pm-6:30pm at the Reese Bullen Gallery, with light refreshments; and the Artist Talk starting at 5pm in the Lecture Hall, ArtB 101.

Ciara Craig
Spin, 2020, Acrylic on masonite
Record Cells, 2020, Acrylic on masonite

Karissa Haff
Jovi Guzman, 2020, Photograph
Jay Versace, 2020, Photograph

Lisa Heikka-Huber
Blue Face, 2021, Resin & glass
Untitled, 2021, Resin

Caitlyn McVey
Comfort in the Unexplained, 2020, Acrylic gouache on paper
Jerry Vamp, 2020, Acrylic gouache on paper

Alyssa Ravenwood
Prism, 2018, Watercolor and Ink
Kathryn, 2019/20, Ceramic, acrylic ink and paint

Rebecca Suen
Untitled Vase, 2019, Hand-built ceramics
Dragon on Vessels, 2020, Woodcut print

Oregon-based Artist Emily Jung Miller created an ongoing series of community interactive traveling installations transforming locally gathered marine debris into art. Using materials gathered from cleanups around the beaches and waterways here on the North Coast, as well as diverted waste from the fishing industry, a large scale artwork will be made with the debris. Ghost Net Landscape evolves with each presentation, transforming to fit the needs of the space, time, and community where it is exhibited. Join our Humboldt community in making a public work of art out of the marine debris depicting local marine life.

Emily Miller will be in residence for a week of engagement visiting the campus and the community around Humboldt Bay and the region. She will be at the Reese Bullen Gallery on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus from 10am-4pm from Monday September 11th through Friday September 15th. All are welcome to join us in creating artworks out of the collected marine and waterway debris. The project's mission is to create space where positive transformation is a natural and joyful response.

The exhibition Ghost Net Landscape Humboldt will run from September 11th through October 14th at the Reese Bullen Gallery. We will hold an Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Miller on Wednesday September 13th from 4:30pm-6pm at the Reese Bullen Gallery, with light refreshments.

The gallery is located in the Cal Poly Humboldt Art Building, at the intersection of B Street and Laurel Drive, directly across from the Van Duzer Theatre. The gallery is open Wednesday/Thursday 12pm-6pm, Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 11am-2pm. Closed Sunday-Tuesday. Also open via appointment, please contact the Gallery Director at rbg@humboldt.edu, or call 707-826-5818. Admission is free and all are welcome. For parking information, please visit humboldt.edu/parking.

More information on Ghost Net Landscape project: https://www.ejmillerfineart.com/ghost-net

The Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery on the Humboldt State University campus was founded in the Spring of 2011. But it’s inception was decades in the making, originally set as a museum space in a part of a master plan of the 1980s, the goal was to highlight creative expressions from our local Indigenous communities and nations. In the decade following its founding in 2011, the Goudi’ni Gallery has showcased local foundational and emerging Native artists, and State and Nationally known Indigenous artists. 

The Goudi’ni Gallery mission is to honor living culture through the presentation of contemporary and traditional Native American art. This respectful learning space builds campus, Tribal and community connections by promoting diverse artistic perspectives. Inspired by the Wiyot word Goudi’ni, translated as “one is way up and one looks back,” we acknowledge the long history of this place by sharing the stories of past, present and future generations.

Selected exhibitions were shown on the Arcata Ballpark Fence, F street between 8th/9th Arcata, as a part of Art On The Fence, showing the diversity of expression and creative endeavor that the Goudi’ni Gallery has had the pleasure of bringing to the North Coast. Featuring the work of past exhibiting artists: 

Tiffany Adams
Duggan Aguilar
Carl Avery Jr.
Natalie Ball
Rick Bartow
George Blake
Annelia Hillman
Geri Montano
Lyn Risling
Fox Anthony Spears
Gail Tremblay
Brian Tripp

What are the secret gems of art by Indigenous artists in your home? What are works that make you think of Home? What have you brought Home?

These are questions that have brought works to this exhibition, join us in celebration of Home

Opening Reception: Thurs Oct 17th, 4:30-6pm, Goudi'ni Gallery

Exhibition Tour: Fri Oct 18th, 3pm-4pm, Goudi'ni Gallery