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.

Please join us for our Awards Ceremony, Thursday April 30th, 4:30pm at the steps of the ArtB Building across from the Van Duzer Theatre. We will announce awards for the Art + Film Department, celebrate our graduates, and share light refreshments and music. 

Submitted work in the Art Grads Exhibition? Pickup of your work is directly after the CAHSS graduating ceremony, 5/16, around 12pm at the Reese Bullen Gallery. Pickup continues Mon-Wed 5/18-20, 11am-2pm. Also by appointment, please contact brb24@humboldt.edu to arrange alternate pickup of your artwork.

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In My Time, In My Place: Brian Tripp Archive, explores the artists’ dimensions of time and place created within and without. It will focus on his overlaying of personal texts, symbols, and geometric language. This exhibition opens Thursday April 2nd and run through May 16th, 2026.

In 2022, Brian's papers (notebooks, sketches, posters/flyers, etc.) became a part of the Cal Poly Humboldt Library Special Collection, as part of an external project organized to get California Native Artist's archives into collections for research. More information about the collection here: https://www.humboldt.edu/special-collections/brian-d-tripp-papers-finding-aid 

Join us for this filtering of the archive, and see some of Brian Tripp's papers, notes, and thoughts.

Events:

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Artist on Artist Talk with Bob Benson

Wednesday April 29th 5:30pm-6:30pm at Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery, BSS 104
Overview of the artists work from an artists perspective.
 

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Archivist Talk 

Thursday May 7th, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery, BSS 104
With Archivist Susan Gehr (Karuk) and Cal Poly Humboldt Special Collections Librarian Carly Marino.

Discussing the formation of the archive, working with Brian Tripp, his legacy as an artist, and institutional archives.

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​