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.

Arcata glass artist George Bucquet's work is featured in galleries around the world and in private collections. His work is also in permanent collections from the U.S. Embassy to the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia to the White House.

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

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.