Trinidad Art Gallery

Trinidad Art Gallery Trinidad Art Gallery is a cooperative of Humboldt County artists featuring original art & fine craft.

Trinidad Art Gallery features original artworks including photography, ceramics, sculpture, stained glass, music, mosaics, jewelry, woodwork, paintings, blown glass, printmaking, beadwork, gifts and more. The gallery is committed to promoting the best of Humboldt County's artists. Visit us in downtown Trinidad, a beautiful seaside town located off Hwy 101 at exit 728 .

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Sarah Magnuson and Annie Reid from September 24 through October 29. All are in...
09/25/2026

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Sarah Magnuson and Annie Reid from September 24 through October 29. All are invited to their opening reception on Saturday September 26 from 5-8 pm, as part of the town-wide Trinidad Art Night. Enjoy snacks, a w**e pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, live jazz by musicians by Duncan Burgess, Fred Neighbor and Bruce ‘Junior’ Johnson and an opportunity to meet many of the gallery's 25 local artists.

Sarah Magnuson creates elegant window hangings of copper faeries and other creatures, adding natural objects, such as crystals that emanate rainbow prisms and volcanic glass that make magical sounds. “Many of my creations are designed to teach their owners about the healing, restorative, and medicinal powers of the herbs after which the fairies wings are shaped”, says Magnuson. After studying jewelry and metalsmithing in college, the artist continued to perfect her craft while exhibiting at large shows. She is a founding member at Trinidad Art Gallery.

A lifelong painter, Annie Reid brings to this exhibit small oils from her studies of ‘Flowers and Light’. The light in Reid’s still lifes emanate from within the flowers, rather than an outside source. “I call these floral portraits the ‘Not so Still Life’, capturing the kinetic energy around each flower. I have watched and painted this light for decades and now find it interesting that quantum physicists recently published findings of a glow detected around all lifeforms.” Reid’s works have been exhibited and collected widely.

Both artists are inspired by nature, and each creates with the purpose of bringing healing, calm and joy into the lives of others. In their unique expressions, they invoke the profound beauty found in simple things.

Sarah Magnuson - Copper/Mixed Media Hummingbird Hanging

Annie Reid - ‘Japonicas at The Lake’ (detail), oil

Sarah Magnuson - Copper/Mixed Media Cat Hanging (detail)

Annie Reid - ‘Phantom Orchid in Loudon Vase’ (detail), oil

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Colleen Clifford and Rachel Robinson from July 23rd through August 27th. Pleas...
07/23/2026

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Colleen Clifford and Rachel Robinson from July 23rd through August 27th. Please join us at their reception on Saturday July 25 from 5-8 pm, as part of the town-wide Trinidad Art Night. Enjoy snacks, a w**e pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, live music with Ryan Roberts and Friends, and an opportunity to meet many of our gallery's 25 local artists.

Colleen Clifford learned the art of stained glass in high school and is a 2002 graduate of HSU with a major in Studio Art. The natural wonders of the North Coast often find their way into her work. One new piece features an egret surrounded by swirling ocean waves. Other new works include windows that capture the sunset (including the post-sunset green flash), as well as smaller jellyfish suncatchers. About the medium, Clifford says, “Glass allows me to play with light, texture and color in a unique way. Taking a design from a sketch to a completed window requires aesthetic and technical experience, as well as artistic imagination. I love the creative force of art bonding with the traditional craft.”

Rachel Robinson works primarily in large format oil painting. She is a 2014 graduate of HSU, with a major in Studio Art. She often finds inspiration for her subjects while pedaling her bicycle through the redwoods and alongside the ocean. Robinson reflects on her recent work, "I am daring myself to find a new direction by defying my usual grip on control. After having spent hours refining a subject, I find great pleasure in 'wrecking' the painting and allowing the element of chance to magically guide the way. Often, the reward for this leap into the unknown is an unleashing of a crescendo of bold color and swaths of light that depart from reality and transport the artwork into the realm of the surreal."

The north coast of California is renowned for its majestic and rare redwood forests. These magnificent evergreens (sequo...
07/09/2026

The north coast of California is renowned for its majestic and rare redwood forests. These magnificent evergreens (sequoia sempervirens) can live beyond 2000 years and are among the tallest trees on Earth, reaching up to 381 feet in height. People the world over are drawn to visit these mighty sentinels of resilience, beauty and earth wisdom.

Trees are generous with their gifts! Oxygen, building materials, fuel for fire… and so much more. Trees also gift artists both inspiration and materials to create with.

Tom Kingshill’s wood turned burl bowl with resin is both strong and elegant.

Donvieve’s whimsical driftwood and mixed media sculpture titled ‘Reading the Palm’ fills us with delight.

Trees form a shaded canopy in Carolyn Cook's blissful watercolor painting titled ’Streamside Whispers of Light’.

Tomorrow on July 4th, we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Th...
07/09/2026

Tomorrow on July 4th, we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This foundational act in 1776 formally declared the thirteen American colonies free and independent of British rule. Independence Day is our country’s principal celebration of national identity... a festive day of fireworks, parades, cookouts, and public ceremonies.

On July 4th, we celebrate Freedom! May we cherish and protect this precious gift.

These TAG artworks convey a feeling of FREEDOM!

In Jennifer Pierce’s glass mosaic ‘Octopus Friend’, a joyful cephalopod moves its eight sparkling fire-orange legs with joyous freedom.

Christine Connerly’s ‘Seaside Sunset’ (needle felted wool) radiates a childlike sense of playful freedom.

Whales flying thru redwoods in Patricia Sundgren Smith's mixed-media print ‘Cetacean Migration’ (detail) portrays freedom from gravity and logic!

06/28/2026

Trinidad Art Night at the gallery with Ryan Roberts, Beverly Twist, and friend.

Celebrating featured artists jeweler Susan Kohl, and silk painter Amanita Mollier tonight (6/27) until 8:00 pm.
06/28/2026

Celebrating featured artists jeweler Susan Kohl, and silk painter Amanita Mollier tonight (6/27) until 8:00 pm.

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Amanita Mollier and Susan Kohl from June 25th through July 23rd. All are invit...
06/25/2026

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Amanita Mollier and Susan Kohl from June 25th through July 23rd. All are invited to their opening reception on Saturday June 27 from 5-8 pm, which coincides with Trinidad Art Night. Enjoy snacks, a w**e pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, live music by Ryan Roberts and Friends, and an opportunity to meet many of the gallery's 25 local artists.

During her childhood, Amanita Mollier spent much time drawing and painting the forest scenes that surrounded her. She earned a BFA in photography, which has been an important tool for understanding light. Thirty years ago, she learned the technique of silkpainting and became fascinated with this medium that provides the perfect balance of spontaneity and fine detail. Her process continues to evolve, and experimentation is her best teacher. Using hot wax as a 'resist' to outline shapes and protect areas of light, Mollier employs a variety of brushes to paint dye directly on the silk fabric, building up layers to achieve incredible detail.

Artist Susan Kohl allows the stones she selects for her jewelry to inspire her designs. Many of the stones featured in her earrings, rings and pendants are cut from local material that her husband shapes into cabochons, while others come from all corners of the world. She began silversmithing seven years ago and her esthetic is clean and modern. Kohl has had a love affair with rocks and minerals her entire life, ever since her grandmother gave her a postcard with tiny, polished stones glued to it. She hopes that her pieces inspire a love of minerals in the wearer.

Opening Reception for July’s Featured Artists: Amanita Mollier and Susan Kohl Saturday, July 27 from 5-8 pm with live mu...
06/25/2026

Opening Reception for July’s Featured Artists: Amanita Mollier and Susan Kohl Saturday, July 27 from 5-8 pm with live music by Ryan Roberts and Beverly Twist.
Snacks, w**e, music, art!

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Carolyn Cook and Elaine Y. Shore May 28 through June 25. All are invited to th...
05/26/2026

Trinidad Art Gallery is featuring artists Carolyn Cook and Elaine Y. Shore May 28 through June 25. All are invited to their opening reception on Saturday May 30th from 5-8 pm, which is also Trinidad Art Night. Enjoy snacks, a w**e pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, live music and an opportunity to meet many of the gallery's 25 local artists.

An avid outdoor enthusiast, artist Carolyn Cook is captivated by the wild and diverse landscapes that are unique to our local area. In her work she strives to capture the wide variety of natural elements that draw our attention, such as reflections of wet sands, stormy skies, glorious sunsets and majestic redwood forests. Cook has been painting with watercolors for over 30 years and uses a combination of wet on wet and dry brush techniques. Her process allows for both creative surprises, as well as a focus on details, that celebrate our natural environment.

Ceramicist Elaine Y. Shore works almost exclusively in porcelain. She is currently focusing on a technique called “sgraffito”, whereby she throws her forms, then brushes on a black underglaze. She then carves through the black glaze into the white porcelain, creating striking black and white designs that feature whales, birds and flowers. Shore notes, “The key to sgraffito is to use line variations to invoke darker or lighter areas, very similar to block prints.” As well as being a founding board member of Trinidad Art Gallery, she is both a co-director and teacher at Fire Arts in Arcata.

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490 Trinity Street
Trinidad, CA
95570

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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(707) 677-3770

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