REBOUND

Karuk Mural Crew, led by Alme Allen to paint Brian Tripp Artwork in Downtown Arcata

2022 – Jacoby Storehouse Plaza 

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This September Arcata will be graced with a new mural featuring artwork originally created by acclaimed Indigenous Artist and Activist Brian D. Tripp.  The design entitled “We Been Healing That Way” was reinterpreted by Karuk–Yurok Artist Alme Allen with input and approval by the artist before his passing earlier this year. Installation will be completed by the Karuk Mural Crew led by Allen and will work in conjunction with Da’Luk Youth Program to inspire Native youth of the area to explore art. The mural will be painted on the westward facing wall of the Pacific Outfitters/Hatchet House building in downtown Arcata. 

This project was conceived and led by REBOUND founder Benjamin Funke, working with Alme Allen, Brian Tripp and their families.  The artists’ royalties will benefit the “RED HOUSE PEOPLE” Fund at the Humboldt Area Foundation, a fund created in his memory in support of California Native Arts & Artists. During his lifetime, Tripp was always known to support and encourage others who were learning their culture and working on their own artwork, and this fund hopes to continue this commitment.

Tripp, born in 1945 in Eureka, was raised in Klamath, California. He was instrumental in the revival of Karuk ceremonies and was a renowned singer and dancer in river communities. In 2018, Tripp was awarded the California Living Heritage Award from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts for his lifetime’s work to bring California Native art to foreground.

This project would not happen without the generous contributions and assistance by the Humboldt Area Foundation, Wild Rivers Community Foundation, Alme Allen and the Allen/Tripp family, the Da’Luk Youth Program, Julie Fulkerson, Ali Lee, Lindsey Bear, Aaron Ostrom, United Rentals, City of Arcata, the Ink People Center for the Arts and REBOUND

The project is still short of its fundraising goal, but tax exempt donations can be made at https://www.r-e-b-o-u-n-d.net/donate.

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IMAGE - ARTWORK BY ALME ALLEN / BRIAN D TRIPP, COURTESY OF REBOUND.

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Muralists - Karamachay Tripp, Danielle Briscoe, Ahtyirahm Allen, Pimm Tripp-Allen, Eli Hensher-Aubrey

NCIDC Da’Luk Youth Program - San-t’as Bommelyn, Logann Fells, Phoenix Smith…

NCIDC Da’Luk Youth Program coordinator, Vincent Feliz

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Brian D. Tripp: I am These People - North Coast Journal

The People Are Coming, by Brian D. Tripp, uses a formal vocabulary derived from Indigenous basket-weaving motifs to show elements of ceremonial regalia bridging the gulf between present and past. Tripp, born in 1945 and a member of the Northern California Karuk tribe, has been active as a painter, sculptor, poet, singer, regalia maker, and activist since the 1970s.

This major work, which had not been on display since it entered the collection of the Humboldt Arts Council in 1988, recently returned to view at a Eureka event organized by the California Alliance of Traditional Arts to celebrate Tripp’s receipt of the California Living Heritage Award. Its exhibition posed an opportunity to reconsider the potent fusion of mythic iconography, Indigenous motifs, and popular materials that Tripp developed during the 1980s and early ’90s, alongside Northern California Indigenous artists, such as Frank LaPena, Lyn Risling, Julian Lang, and George Blake. - Gabrielle Gopinath; Art Practical