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California condors in Melitta Jackson's "Chpaana'r" mural.
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Mural artist Melitta Jackson paused for a moment while painting wildlife murals on the inside side panels of the entrance on the E Street side of the Eureka Municipal Auditorium.
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Otters in Melitta Jackson's "Chpaana'r" mural.
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Violet Crabtree, Emily Rune, Mir de Silva and Megan Phillips all worked on Mir de Silva's “The Lost Pages” mural design on the side wall of Alder Grove Charter School.
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Artists Violet Crabtree, Emily Rune, Mir de Silva and Megan Phillips.
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Emily Rune and Violet Crabtree. Finnea Wildfur, the sasquatch lady protagonist from Crabtree's feature film project, is included in "The Lost Pages."
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Mir de Silva explained the backstory of “The Lost Pages” mural design on the side wall of Alder Grove Charter School: “They wanted it to look like a page from a story book, given their love of reading at the school.”
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Mural artist Lucas Thornton teamed up with mural artist Kati Texas while painting on this side wall of Talisman Beads in Opera Alley in Old Town. Thornton’s mural was his image of “Sequoia Sunrise” and Texas did a creative and careful re-working of an existing Larry Laitman landscape.
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Lucas Thornton adding the finishing touches of “Sequoia Sunrise” on the side wall of Talisman Beads in Opera Alley in Old Town.
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Thornton's nearly complete "Sequoia Sunrise."
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Lucas Thornton paused to show onlookers his design for “Sequoia Sunrise.”
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The nearly finished “The Condor Returns” mural by artist Blake Reagan transformed this side entrance to the Clarke Museum.
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Blake Reagan was adding the final details to “The Condor Returns” on this side entrance to the Clarke Museum.
Blake Reagan was adding the final details to “The Condor Returns” on this side entrance to the Clarke Museum. He has been involved in the Eureka Street Art Festival multiple times.
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A guided walk through Old Town to view the “Slugs of Eureka” on Friday afternoon was led by ceramic banana slug artists Shannon Sullivan (left) and Jessica Swan.
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Swan and Sullivan greeted the large crowd for the tour at the entrance of the Inn at 2nd & C where the first of 13 larger-than-life slugs (see small circular medallion #1) was installed on the wall above them.
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Molly Martian zoomed ahead on her bike to locate slug #2 high on the wall at Mendenhall Studios.
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Eureka Street Art Festival 2024 murals and Slugs of Eureka...
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A close-up view via telephoto lens of the unique ceramic banana slug #3 high on the wall of the Skyhorse International Hostel at 216 Third St. across from The Shanty bar. It shares the distinctive color in the artwork and building paint job by Blake Reagan.
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Ceramic banana slug artists Shannon Sullivan and Jessica Swan shared the backstory of how they came of up with the idea and how they created 13 unique ceramic banana slug artworks, offered a prize for correct answers to slug-related questions and answered questions.
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Enveloped in a large Friday Night Market crowd and deafened by a nearby band, the Slugs of Eureka walking tour gathered around slug #4 above the door at The Bodega, 215 F St.
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Sullivan is an artist and educator based in Eureka, serving as a faculty member in the Art Department at College of the Redwoods since 2006. Her ceramic sculptures and wall objects have been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Swan is also a local ceramic artist who has been throwing on the wheel since 2013, when she had her first opportunity to play with clay in a class with Sullivan at CR.
