Artwaves with Wendy Butler

Arcata watercolorist Alan Sanborn joins Artwaves this week, as the second in a series of Artwaves interviews with North Coast Open Studios artists who’ve participated in the event since it began 20 years ago. Also, music merges with visual art courtesy of Kathrin Burleson’s “The Creation” painting series featured in Eureka Symphony’s final concert of this season to be held Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts in Eureka.

Arcata potter Peggy Loudon talks to Artwaves. It's the first in a series of interviews with North Coast Open Studios charter artists whose ongoing participation goes back to the first Open Studios in 1999. Also D*STATE, a group show of surrealist work at Black Faun Gallery in Eureka.

This week on Artwaves: A character study per guests’ extensive research of and commitment to the characters in Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand , which had its world premiere in 2014 at Berkley Rep. It’s the next production of Redwood Curtain , on stage Thursdays-Saturdays through May 26.

This week on Artwaves: Humboldt State University Department of Theatre, Film & Dance takes on Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever,” a classic filled with bravado.

This week on Artwaves, Eureka Symphony’s guest artist Robert Satterlee, pianist/educator, talks about the upcoming “Language of Love” concert Friday and Saturday nights, April 13 and 14. Also, Zack Rouse and Damion Sharpe discuss their impetus and planning for their new theatrical/film performance space called The Vault Eureka .

This week on Artwaves, four Humboldt State University students discuss their participation in “ Divergence ,” an original dance concert created by Theatre, Film and Dance Department students and faculty. The shows are in the Van Duzer Theatre for the next two weekends.

North Coast Repertory Theatre Managing Artistic Director Calder Johnson and Brenda Perez from Centro del Pueblo discuss NCRT’s La Voz Project and the project’s pilot play -- the inspiring and relevant “ The Tenth Muse ,” now on stage at NCRT.

What do the Eureka High Players do when renovations prevent them from building stage sets? They do an old-time radio drama, to be aired on KZZH-LP. "We decided it'd be fun to focus on storytelling rather than sets, costumes, and lights," director Nan Voss tells Wendy Butler. Voss used this as an opportunity "to get the atmosphere of a story across without all of the usual stuff we have to tell a story."

This week on Artwaves,: preview The Macabre Cabaret at Dell'Arte, and Humboldt State's production of Avenue Q . Both shows open this week.

What did life in Humboldt look like in 1987? Thirty years ago this month, local photographers fanned out across the county to document people, places, and events over at 24-hour period. 130 of those photos were compiled and published by Humboldt State professors emeritus Mark Larsen and Wayne Miller in The People, Places and Events of Humboldt County (available at the Humboldt County Library here and the Humboldt State Library here ). Thirty years later, Mark Larsen and Sydney Fisher-Larson tell Wendy Butler the stories behind the book's most evocative subjects. With the project’s 30-year anniversary looming, they invite photographers of all skill levels to again photograph Humboldt County next Friday, Oct. 20.

The advocacy group Humboldt Alliance for Arts Education is relaunching Friday, as a response to ongoing factors on the statewide political horizon that affect arts education in schools.

A new College of the Redwoods exhibit is a chance for visitors to view some of a historic collection the college purchased nearly 40 years ago.

San Francisco-based satellite imaging company Planet Labs’ Artist-In-Residence Director Forest Stearns was formerly an oft-exhibited artist here in Humboldt County.

This week it's all about family at Humboldt Light Opera Company and on Artwaves. HLOC's latest production Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore or The Witches Curse opens this week. We talk with director Carol Ryder, actors Elsworth Pence and Katri Pitts and her daughters Trillium and Aurora, both talented singers and dancers and both performing alongside their mom and the rest of the HLOC cast in this production.

This week’s Artwaves has two interviews connected by one topic: the city of Eureka’s multiple-year Strategic Arts Plan. The plan is all about identifying, protecting and developing Eureka’s arts and culture. And one of the projects articulated in Phase One of the plan is beautifying Opera Alley in Old Town.

How did a section of Eureka earn designation as a ' California Arts Council cultural district '? "You have this concentration of energy and vitality," California Arts Council chair Donn K. Harris tells Wendy Butler.

The next Artwaves is on glass. Artwaves speaks with Eureka glass sculptor John Gibbons about his interest in creating myriad styles of glass art from vases to six-foot sculptures to starfish in motion. His work has been part of exhibits throughout the United States. He currently is a member of Old Town Art Gallery, where his work is featured.

New Orleans-based LadyBEAST Productions is on a national tour with its Vaude D'Gras "Transistance" show. It's coming to the Mateel Community Center in Redway on July 11. Wendy interviews organization founder and one of the performers LadyBEAST by phone. Smokey Bill Harper is having an exhibition of his black-and-white photographs in a show titled "Having Fun from the Desert to Crescent City." The exhibit is on display at the Del Norte County Courthouse, Crescent City, through August 10. Wendy interviews Smokey Bill Harper by phone.

Wendy Butler talks to co-organizers of the first Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival coming up August 25-27. Also on today's Artwaves , learn about Matthew Lopez' " The Legend of Georgia McBride" at Redwood Curtain Theater. The show previews on Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7, and runs through July.

Would you like to hear live brass music in a botanical garden? Or see a Dell'Arte show about the State of Jefferson? Yes? Good news! Summer Solstice Brass is June 18th at Humboldt Botanical Garden. And this year's Mad River Festival (June 15 - July 15) includes the world premiere of " State of Jefferson Picnic: This land is your land but mostly my land. " Learn more about both shows on this episode of Artwaves.