Marble Weekend 2024 

Humboldt Marble Weekend action on Friday night at the Glass Garage also included a visit by this flame-emitting Kinetic sculpture by Team Half Fast.

Attendees of the Humboldt Marble Weekend vendor show that opened Saturday morning at the Wharfinger Building were greeted by event organizer Topher Teynolds (left), his wife Tana and volunteer Shannon Snyder, of Fortuna.

An all-ages crowd of marble enthusiasts and collectors packed the Wharfinger building on Saturday and Sunday to see glass art and marbles by vendors such as Seth Bickis, of Made With Fire in Madison, Indiana.

This suprising display of marbles with spiders was available at this vendor table.

Glass artists and marble makers from 14 states displayed their creative glass art for sale, including this piece by Peter Weiss, of Olympia, Washington.

This year's marblemakers and glass artists displayed a mix of new and interesting art forms, including these globes by Grace and Buddy Sullivan, of Springfield, Misssouri.

Glass artists displayed a wide mix of creative work for sale on Saturday and Sunday.

The Marble Weekend event also featured live "Hot Shop" glasswork demonstrations by in-house artists including Matt Gagliardi at John Gibbons Glass in Eureka on Saturday.

Marble Weekend featured live "Torch Working" and marble-making by local glass artists including Marcose Walton (left), of Eureka, and Matt Kelley, of Willow Creek, on Saturday at The Glass Garage.

These glass marbles featured vivid flower diplays.

Glass artist Polly Toombs of Dragon Art Glass organized her display of glass jellyfish for sale at her vendor table on Saturday morning.

These landscape scenes inside marbles were created by glass artist Nathan Middleton, of McKinlyville

This creative mix of smaller marbles was displayed at the vendor table by glass artists David and Kristi MacDonald of McDonald's Glass Farm in Eugene, Oregon.

While the photo doesn't show the details well, 20 glass artists each donated pieces that were assembled into this 3.5-inch mega marble created on Friday and displayed on Sunday by artist Seth Bickis. The one-of-a-kind 4-pound marble will be going into the permanent collection at the Clarke Museum.

Marble Weekend organizer Topher Reynolds was a busy guy on Sunday. He first helped hide 12 tokens around Old Town that finders could return to the Carson Musem for a marble prize. Then at noon he kicked off the Scavenger Hunt by handing out to a large crowd of excited participants this sheet of paper listing 25 Scavenger Hunt tasks to be completed in Old Town (requiring evidence of task completion to be on digital cameras). The 25th task – "Have a big smile on your face returning to the Carson Museum to claim one of 40 marble prizes."

Photo clues as to the whereabouts of the 12 tokens hidden around Old Town began on Facebook at 11 a.m. – and by 11:20, Amelie Odle, of Eureka, was back at the Carson Museum to claim her marble prize from Topher Reynolds for finding the first of the 12 hidden tokens that she had found on a light post near the Adorni Recreation Center.