Charlie Hunter Trio at the Jambalaya May 15th

John Lee Hooker jr Poster for the Jambalaya in Arcata

New Poster design on this glorious Saturday!

-Vico

Check out more of the action at www.HumboldtArtsProject.com

-Vico

A work in progress illustration for the future Tribal Fire Fusion Website for these two very talented ladies!

-Vico

Quick design for the HAP poster of the WADA! Its going to be epic!

Friday Feb 12th! 7pm Arts Arcata. www.HumboldtArtsProject.com

-Vico

Stumbled into this flier I made for artist and friend Hollie Dilley when one of her sculptures “Grizzly Savage” was kidnapped from an exhibit at H.S.U. a couple of semesters ago.

There was a happy ending to this story as an anonymous person’s tips led to the location of Grizzly who was to be found in the Arcata Community Forest at the center of a shrine…

-Vico

Terrific performance by Mystique!

Enjoy!

-Vico

Graceful

A graceful display of strength and beauty.

This image was shot at the local Ballet Dance Studio “New World Ballet” with Director Victor Temple.

Good Luck Dakota on your submission to the Ballet camp!

-Vico

Luna at the HAP reception on Friday Night!

This is an incredibly hot performance by Luna from the Fire and Isis Collective during the Humboldt Arts Project December exhibit. Its hard not to get mesmerized by this amazing dance and fire performance.

-Vico

Excerpt “Nico: Was there a large desire to purchase some of the artworks at the last event?

Vico: Yes, both artists and gallery guests wanted to buy/sell the works. After much debate on whether we would do sales through the gallery we decided to continue to support the not for profit model. We also understand both the necessity of proffesional artists to generate income as well as providing such great artwork for people who want to purchase it. We will be taking more action this next exhibition by facilitating the sales through contact lists, sign up board, contact info on title cards, and of course by encouraging artists to be there and make those connections. By staying with the not for profit model we ant to continue to encourage those artists that would just love to show their work without the pressures of pricing, dealing with commissions, or having an entire body of work. This has been a topic that we have been discussing in our open meetings and we have decided that a 15% Suggested commission for any works sold through the connection of the Humboldt Arts Project.

Nico: It seems like you’re still working out some of the details on the HAP. What are the immediate goals and future plans for the HAP?

Vico: Well, I don’t come to any of the decisions by myself. We keep the process open to everyone with our emails and public meetings. We try to have everyone come to agreements on the future decisions. Anyone who comes to our meetings can have a say in what happens. I can personally see [the HAP] being around longer with the continued support of the business community, local artists, and the community. We have been lucky to be well supported by local businesses so far. We have had donations of wine, coffee, beer, equipment, t-shirts, jewelry, catering, printing, food, financial as well as my own time and graphic design work. Some of our sponsors are Arcata Main Street, Robert Goodman Wines, Muddy Waters Coffee, Ironside Metal, Blackjack, Stebbins Properties, Catlin Blair, Christina D’alessandro, Plaza Liquor, Holly Yoshi, The Jambalaya, Visual Concepts, my business Vico Designs and other private sponsors.

Nico: Are you a non-profit with a board of members? Or, do you work with the Ink People?

Vico: We have not reached that level of organization yet. We are having meetings to work in that direction. There are some supporters and artists who are interested in this. We will probably keep it an independent non-profit endeavour moving forward. But we would love to collaborate with any organization like the Ink People, Accident Gallery and the many others in Humboldt County…”

Full article will be posted soon on Humboldt Living.com

Thanks Nico,

-Vico