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Past Artists Featured on the Art Wall

Cora Wright: A Retrospective for the Artist's 150th Birthday

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Cora Wright was a local artist who taught classes out of her home on H Street. Click here to learn more about her life as we celebrate her 150th birthday. 

Kathrin Burleson

The Clarke Historical Museum is proud to be showing the artwork of Kathrin Burleson during April and May!

All of the art on display for April and May is part of the Creation Series.  Images of the paintings will be featured with the Eureka Symphony Orchestra during the May "Transitions of the Past" concert, and Kathrin is donating prints to the Symphony as a fundraiser. 

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You can see three of the pieces that will be on display below:

About Kathrin's Work

The work of award-winning artist Kathrin Burleson has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California; the Foxhall Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Concordia University in Austin, Texas; and Grace Cathedral in San Fransisco, CA.

A partial list of private collectors includes: Maria Shriver, Senator and Mrs. Rick Santorum, Laura Ingraham, P. J. O’Rourke, the late Morris Graves, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, President George and Laura Bush.

Public and corporate collectors include: Security National Bank; the City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the Morris Graves Foundation; the City of Loleta (CA); College of the Redwoods; the City of Eureka (CA); Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka (CA); and Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Boise, Idaho.

Kathrin was the featured artist for 2011-12 on the covers of Forward Day by Day, a quarterly international publication of the Episcopal Church.
 You can see more of her art on her website.

Past Featured Artists

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