Ink people just sponsored a "family all ages" DRAG SHOW
I'm just stating the facts. Do you think this is a good thing really??????
The Ink People serves an incredible role in our community by advocating for art and cultural projects and improvements, empowering local artists, assisting disadvantaged communities with grant funded opportunities, and supporting local governments and agencies in their efforts to promote art and cultural activities.
I got started with the Ink People many years ago when I was trying to figure out how to fund an art calendar I was putting together, then ended up taking over coordination of a beloved local art event, which also happened to be an Ink People project. This organization has been at the very roots of literally hundreds of local art-related projects, providing nonprofit support, as well as administrative support, expertise... and a listening ear for those inevitable crazy-making moments. I'm so appreciative of the Ink People Center for the Arts!
I learned to printmake in the attic of the Rialto lounge when the Ink People found their first workspace.
40 years later I am a streetprinter working for cities in the Netherlands. Who would have thought that the influence the Ink People had on me would become a well paying career?
For fourty years the Ink People Center for the Arts has been weaving the arts into the fabric of our community here in Eureka California and Humboldt County. My personal experience has been seeing the light that comes into the eyes of kids in and out of juvenile hall or "at risk" programs who find joyful self expression through the gallery, music and poetry programs at offered for them through the Ink People. I was in the Ink People Gallery on day and just happen to catch the opening of a show by a group of "kids" from such a program-12-14 yrs. old. They were so proud and happy, and their art was fresh and moving.
Just this last Sunday, I was walking in our neighborhood and saw a banner inviting everyone to a Dia de los Muertos festival at a local restaurant. The festival was being organized by a neighborhood group through the Ink People's "Dreammakers" program. The Ink People provide fiscal agent and admin services to nearly 100 such organizations or artists. Suddenly, it ocured to me that every day our community is filled with visual art, music, performance art-you name it, because of the Ink People! Next year the Ink People Center for the Arts will celebrate 40 years of being the heart of art in Humboldt. They truly Rock!
The Ink People has such a wide range of influence on both young and old, sculptors, painters, artists of all types, community, both local and nationally, as well as a depth of commitment not often found in an art's organization. I've learned so much from our different board members and the small groups that are under our umbrella. Diversity, inclusiveness, and consideration are ways in which The Ink People are really the Center for the Arts.
The Ink People has helped many socio, culture, and humanities groups get their start. Without them the streets of Humboldt county would not be as vibrant, entertaining, and as healthy as they are.
They make one group I am on the board for's life so much easier by helping us handle finances, covering insurances for matters, and always being available if we have questions.
I've always been the Idea person. This can be a blessing or a curse depending on one's own skill set. For me it was a curse because Ive never had the money to fund my own ideas and I also didn't have the knowledge or experience to build a non profit of my own out of thin air. I read a book on how to start a non profit and quickly decided it wasn't for me. How sad is that to think that brilliant ideas from passionate people can be killed simply because they don't have the resources or the know how to get started.
When I found The Ink People I was volunteering for another one of their DreamMaker projects. The more I learned about how they were helping our group the more I realized that through Ink People, I too could start a community project and suddenly my ideas were possible for the first time ever. It took a casual dream and turned it into a possible reality. My imagine was alight, excited over this new possibility and I saw how good it is for people to be able to do actual work towards turning their dreams into a reality. Its healthy for people!
The input and guidance that The Ink People has provided for my own DreamMaker project has turned an impossible wish into a real thing that will help our community members live better lives. Not only that, but the ability to be able to develop my own idea has always been just out of reach. I cant tell you how much happiness it brings me every day to be able to work on something that matters to me. It gives me a sense of capability, purpose, and identity within my community. I am only one of the latest community members to be inspired and empowered by The Ink People and I'm excited that my project may draw even more people to this wonderful space and resource.
The Ink People is making a huge difference in our community by assisting the community themselves in helping one another. People want to help one another and The Ink People helps fill the gaps and enables groups and individuals to do just that. To me this is what genuine community is built on. I feel lucky to have found The Ink People and knowing them makes Eureka feel more like home to me
Ink People is doing good all over our community. I did not realize until after I started working there on a work experience program 5 years ago. With 90+ DreamMaker Programs, the Ink People is everywhere I look around Humboldt County! From their on site MARZ program (Music Arts Resource Zone) to Karuk language classes and pan arts, Ink People is there behind the scenes supporting the artists and enriching the community. They have my vote for a great nonprofit.
I'm a board member. The Ink People hosts dozens of project in culture and the arts. It's mind-boggling to look at the breadth of these: Native languages, Polynesian culture, art galleries, fire dancers.
That's what keeps me involved: the depth of what we do in the community, the spectrum of arts programs and activities we support, the dynamic range of artistic expression. Knowing the people involved with the Ink People inspires me, gives me an awareness of the diversity we have locally, and knowledge of the arts and artists in our community. I’m amazed at the talent that we have…the ideas, the hard work, the people our clients want to serve.
The Ink People center for the arts ROCKS! This group works hard to give artists, dancers, writers, musicians a chance to grow their passion by keeping our paperwork and accounting in order in a professional manner. Artists such as myself often get so involved in creation that we donʻt have time for the little details like "financial statements, book keeping, looking for available grants, accounting"...we just want to grow our passion! Ink People Center for the Arts allows us this freedom by taking on the INK!!! (paperwork). All I have to do is create , make $$, promote our project and enjoy being an artist! Ink People Center for the Arts provides me the opportunity to grow and expand and relax about the paper work! Ink People Center for the Arts ROCKS!!!
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Ink People provide a valuable service to our communities by providing excellent advice and accounting services to Artists who are trying to make a difference in their communities through culture, art, music and dance. Ink People is a group of concerned individuals who truly want to help artists, musicians, dancers and teachers succeed in their passions. They provide advice and keep us informed of opportunities which help us to succeed and grow. They share their knowledge with us and their door is always open to welcome our questions and help us to become knowledgable and successful.
Ink People helped me and my friends start our Dream Maker program to bring live music and arts to youth in Arcata, CA through an all ages, volunteer-run community center.
With help from everything to finances, grant writing, fundraising, and boosting our morale along the way...we celebrated our 1 year anniversary this past January in our new facility and continue to be offered advice and support in our journey!
The Ink People is an amazing resource for the arts and culture community; located in a remote rural region, it's not always possible to access the resources that arts and culture based programs and projects need to be successful; having access to the Ink People and their amazing insight and support systems allows our artist communities, projects and endeavors to not only succeed but to thrive. The Ink People's Dream Maker Program has incubated so many success stories and we're very excited that our community is a part of this amazing family. Thank you Ink People for all that you do and for believing in the hopes, dreams and visions of our communities.
The Ink People has helped our small group get the non-profit status we need to help raise funds to support our ability to continue performing for the community.
A community arts organization with a wide reach and a big heart. Very inclusive, innovative, and supportive of the various dimensions of the arts. I'm so grateful to The Ink People for their many years of leading and inspiring the creative potential of this community. They are a real treasure.
The Ink People is the heart of our community. They provide artists, musicians, storytellers, performers, weavers, and many many more groups with a non-profit status and support to make their dreams a reality; thanks to the Ink People Dreamaker Program
The Ink People has proven its durability through years of providing art inspiration to our small community. It fosters programs that encourage creativity for all ages, particularly for teenagers, at the same time schools were cutting back on art programs. There is such a profoundly healthy heart beating in this organization. It has stayed afloat, working its community good, in spite of some pretty daunting setbacks that include moving the entire operation out of an earthquake-damaged building, plus searching for a permanent home more than once. I have the deepest respect for The Inkers and the work they do so steadily to make such a valuable donation to our community.
I have been involved with The Ink People for about 12 years. I have always been impressed and dazzled by how they facilitate the visions so many diverse groups of creative people in our community in their dreams to make life more beautiful, thoughtful, interesting, exciting, inspiring for all of us. From the incredibly important North Star Quest Camp for Girls to the MARZ Digital Media Project afterschool program for teens, to the annual Storytelling Festival to my own Mosaic Productions, their umbrella stretches wide over the many Dream Maker programs that call The Ink People home. Thank you Ink People! :-)
The Ink People Center for the Arts provides numerous opportunities for the community, in an all-inclusive way, to engage in the arts. Everyone is invited. The organization is highly productive, and serves a geographically isolated area where services and support are typically hard to access. The Ink People staff are dedicated and caring. They work hard to promote local artists of all ages, through exhibitions, grants, equipment, instruction, etc... I highly recommend the Ink People! What would the North Coast be without this important arts non-profit?
Working with, and for Libby and the Ink People on a variety of projects, I have seen firsthand how much of an impact they have on others through their inspiration, support, and dedication to working hard advocating for and nurturing creative opportunity for all members of the community they serve here in Humboldt County and far beyond. I have seen amazing artworks being sponsored and shared, as well as young minds being fostered and plenty of smiles, love, hope and happiness to share backed by a genuine sense of gratitude. I am impressed by what they work so tirelessly to help create and then give back to others and believe they are a truly special, remarkable organization, and a valuable part of the community.
Ink people Inc. offers support to local non-profit arts organizations through its Dream Maker Program. we are Nor-cal Native Arts Group and have been able to serve our local rural Native population on the Hoopa Reservation thanks to the expertise and generosity of Ink People Inc.
they have offered every kind of support and technical assistance to get our group started and make us effective as a service organization. The people and services they offer have been life changing for the arts in Humboldt County.
The Ink People Center for the Arts plays a critical role in Humboldt County and beyond. Their all inclusive values are exemplified by their Dreammaker Programs. People in the community with creative projects or ideas are able to pursue their dreams with administrative guidance and nonprofit umbrella provided by TIP. Our community is so much richer for it.
Public art, fire arts, dance projects, weavers, writers, indigenous celebrations, youth programs, and publications are some of the examples that come to mind when I think about how TIP contributes to our community.
When the Ink People Center for the Arts first invited me to play for one of their events, I was honored. I had heard about their work in the community and was excited to support the organization however I could. That first encounter lead to a long relationship that has taught me so much about community, art, and connecting the two. I have been operating a non profit group through the Ink People's DreamMaker Program since 2007 called Dance and Drum in Humboldt. We have been focused on bringing drum and dance instruction to local elementary schools as well as weekly drum classes for our community. Through their support, I have worked in many schools throughout Humboldt County, sharing lessons of cultural awareness, movement and rhythm games, and given these students access to instruments they might not see otherwise. The Ink People accepted my application to be their AmeriCorps Vista worker, helping to develop a youth media lab called the MARZ Project. We provided a safe and educational space for teens to learn about different media types, and to try out different software and programs they might not have access to at home or school. After my time serving in that capacity, the Ink People sponsored me in a California Arts Council Artists in Schools grant. I was able to work for a year at a local elementary school and help to develop a contemporary music program based on the instruments they had available and various materials that were developed in the process. The Ink People has been vital in my growth as a community artist. I will forever be grateful and in support.
For over 30 years the Redwood Coast Children's Chorus, of whom I am Founder/Director has been its own non-profit organization...until we found The Dream Makers , a part of The Ink People. Dream-Makers has taken over the business part of our non -profit, of which we have since dropped.
Because of this wonderful organization ( TIP) the RCCC has been able to connect with many other artists, musicians and dancers, developing an ever widening scope of creativity and artistry within Humboldt County.
Within this next year I hope to expand and connect the children's chorus even more, providing opportunities for children who normally would not have the chance to sing in beautiful harmonies, travel and continue making the world better through music and the arts.
Libby Maynard has and continues to be dedicated to connecting people with people, artists with artists, and artists with the entire community. Let us all continue to support The Ink People!
As an ex-Board Member I can say that this organization is comprised of an extremely dedicated staff and Board that enables extremely dedicated individuals to fulfill their desire to integrate art, social justice and the community. For over 20 years the Ink People has benefited our community by supporting the people that want to positively impact it.
As a volunteer I can say that the Ink People has helped cultivate multi-cultural communication by working with local Native American, Hispanic/Latino and Hmong peoples to share, celebrate and rejuvenate their experience on the Northcoast of California.
As an art-lover I can say that this organization attracts some very talented people.
The Ink People is such an amazing organization that has helped countless other non-profit programs in the area. They have made a huge impact in our community by helping us form LUNA Kids Cooperative, an arts based program for children under 5. Libby Maynard is a wealth of ideas and information and is always a joy to work with. As a program of the DreamMaker Project we are eternally grateful for the Ink People's guidance - without them, we wouldn't even exist! Every community should be so lucky!
'The Ink People' in Eureka California, with Director Libby Maynard, is a world-class model non-profit. It has been our flawless non-profit dual umbrella for almost 25 years. As both 'Prague Project' and 'Eco-Nelson', we are a licensed, City of San Francisco, cultural exchange program between the Czech Republic, Northern California and the Native American lands of Arizona. Prague Project is also the internationally registered American partner with 'Eco-Nelson' (the only strictly environmental [formerly Czech, now international] station in Antarctica). Libby Maynard, and all the other managers of Ink People have welcomed at least a dozen troupes and truly countless individual traveling Czech artists and environmentalists to tour in Northern California. Many were here in San Francisco on scholarships to various academic and professional institutions. All were eager to visit, perform, lecture and exhibit, in order to meet colleagues and residents of rural Northern California. For instance, beginning in 1990, together with Ink People, Prague Project designed the first tour of Native American artists to visit Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Soviet Union. And in 1991, the first environmental-art exhibit in Czechoslovakia, at Art Forum/Jazz Section, Prague. We also arranged the first ever exhibit of former Czechoslovak underground visual art in San Francisco. Since then we have continued arranging exhibits for Northern California artists in Prague. One recent tour of Czech artists in California was for a Shakespeare scholar leading a troupe of classic Czech puppeteers performing with 100-year-old marionettes. A year later the founder of the national Czech program of "Puppets in Hospitals", here on a Fulbright to University of California San Francisco hospitals, also toured through Eureka. Our visitors have been some of the Czech Republic's finest painters, actors, sculptors, tapestry and print-makers, authors, publishers and environmentalists. Prague Project has been proud to introduce them to the wonderful rural audiences that The Ink People helped us to reach.
The Ink People has welcomed our visitors with open arms, by:
• Helping Eureka area tour management
• Arranging for foreign visitors accommodations in Eureka area
(Several of these introductions blossomed into life changing international
exchanges, for both the Czech and Northern California artists.)
• Introducing Prague Project and Eco-Nelson to other venues
in Northern California
• Providing wonderful, affordable, Eureka venues for tour events and classes
• Publishing announcements of these events. Since we, 300 miles away,
would not have known where to advertise in Eureka.)
• Provided residencies and gallery exhibits
Sincerely,
Maya Cain, Director
Prague Project, San Francisco
and partner with
Eco-Nelson, Antarctica
Ink People, Inc. serves as the umbrella non-profit organization for arts groups in the Humboldt area that do not have their own non-profit status. This service has been an amazing benefit to all of us smaller groups. Through them we can fundraise for our projects and help the Ink People at the same time. In addition they have a knack for focusing art projects for both underserved populations and underrepresented and important social themes. They connect so many spokes of the social wheel in this community through celebration of the arts. I don't know what we would do without them!!
The Ink People are an integral part of our community!! We love working with them as a DreamMaker Project! Circus of the Elements and Trinidad Art Nights would not be the groups they are without the help and guidance from the Ink People. I'm grateful for their continued support of the community of Humboldt County.
The Ink People help enrich our community by supporting arts and culture . They make it possible for artists, musicians and kids to have a voice and a presence in our commnity. Please help by supporting this very crucial ally to our arts community.
The Ink People Center for the Arts rocks our community with creative power!!! As a member, an artist, and a community member I have been continually grateful for the supportive nurturing haven of creativity the center provides. Whether you're a professional or aspiring artist, or one-who-appreciates-the-arts, your life can change if you drop by the Ink People's galleries, events or programs. Mine did!
I have been part of the ink people for a few years now and I really like it! I enjoy helping out with the MARZ program being able to work with video and editing, the wonderful classes they have here that I have attended to. The ink people has been a huge part of me the staff here is really nice and respectful and they are there to help you out. The recording studio they have is great being able to make your own music and record it too, now that is awesome! I really like the ink people and I would recommend it to my friends and everyone else, I'm glad to be part of the ink people.
I am a working artist and serve on the steering committee of The North Coast Open Studio. The North Coast Open Studio is a yearly 2 weekend event where working artists open their studios to the public for tours and sales. Without the aid from the Ink People this would not happen and over a hundred local artists would lose important revenue and the public would not get to see the studios of the amazing artists who work and live in this area. Plus the public get free entertainment, refreshments and real art bargains!
The Ink People provide an area for the steering committee to meet, process the money needed to run the event, host a group show a month in advance, advise our coordinator and I'm sure help ways that I'm not aware of.
I have been associated with The Ink People for many years and find their commitment to the arts in our community is without a doubt a very serious commitment. They inform, educate and sustain all forms of art and artists. The staff is excellent and well informed as well as extremely professional. Our artists and art scene would suffer greatly if it weren't for TIP. This organization deserves a huge thank you from all of us for the work they do on our behalf.
I really wasn't sure whether to call myself a client served (as a band member who finds gigs through connections with Ink People) or a volunteer, which I sometimes am. Mostly what I am is really glad they are here. They serve as an umbrella for a performance collective called Synapsis, which helps keep a small-city arts community on the cutting edge while providing an entry for young, new, and variously abled performers; for the MARZ project for young musicians, engineers, and producers; and for a variety of artists, performers, storytellers, and writers. In a small, nonwealthy population that might otherwise be excluded from interest or participation in the arts, we have the Ink People, bringing art of all kinds to the people.
It's not easy trying to make a living as an artist, and it's even harder in our rural, relatively poor community. The Ink People does a terrific job of supporting and strengthening the artists community. It is the nonprofit umbrella for many creative endeavors, organizes countless events that showcase artists, serves as an information clearinghouse for Humboldt County artists, and provides invaluable advice and encouragement to artists.
The Ink People Center for the Arts is an irreplaceable organization in our community. As a non-profit umbrella for more organizations than I am aware of, I am directly involved in two organizations that have non-profit status and are able to operate because of the support of the Ink People. The Ink People provides a wide range of support to the community, including the Marz Project which focuses on providing safe creative space for youth, a local gallery, and the immeasurable benefits of their DreamMaker program which I referenced earlier.
The ink people has filled a vital role in our community by providing oportunities for emerging community efforts that focus on cultural regeneration.
The Ink People is intrinsic to the community. It reaches far and wide helping fledgling organizations get started and eventually becoming important arts venues. It provides shows, supports artists, generates ideas and is active both behind the scenes and in more ways than most people realize.
I belong to a printmaking collective located in Eureka, CA called the GIANT SQUiD. We are a DreamMaker project of the Ink People. Being a DreamMaker project means that we get help from the Ink People. They are our overhead organization, providing space to rent for our artist collective among other things.
Ink People Inc. has been pivotal in helping us achieve our mission as a non-profit organizational
serving our community.
We are a grass-roots Native American Artist group starting an Arts and Multi - Cultural Center on the Hoopa Reservation. Our mission is to increase cultural awareness through revitalizing our traditional arts and renewing our dying language. We seek to expand creative opportunities for our uniquely talented indigenous local tribes. We aim to provide alternatives to youth in our isolated rural community.
Ink People have mentored us: attending our board meetings, helping us with grant writing and development strategic planning. They care and are there in helping us become successful.
Ink People Inc. are committed to a great many local arts groups and make us each feel like their favorite child.
What's amazing about TIP is the DreamMaker Program. It literally makes your dreams come true. They become your "host" non-profit so that you can start up one of your own. No messy tax-id to handle or insurance purchases. You become a non-profit overnight rather than months.
I have been involved in several DreamMaker programs with the Ink People--Incopah, The Steelhead Special and Manifest Positivity, as well as random community events such as Arts Alive. It is amazing to me how many incredible programs are created, supported, and nurtured by the Ink People--wonderful opportunities, and classes, and support for the wide variety of artists in this area, programs for kids (teaching them skills, providing them with guidance, and support, and something positive to do with their time and energy and creativity--and in this small rural area, having those kinds of resources for our children is an enormous blessing!), programs for Veterans, programs for social change, programs for the evolution of consciousness... It is almost staggering to think about what TIP has added to our community! I have greatly appreciated everything that TIP does--as a mother, as a person concerned with the evolution of consciousness, as a person concerned with socio-political-economic change, as a person who loves art, and music, and writing, as a person who dreams about increasing her own creative outlets, and as a person who just loves the love, beauty, and joy that they add to our community! The Ink People--it's PEOPLE and it's programs--is one of the biggest assets that we have here in Humboldt County.
The Ink People is an extremely important organization for the local community. I have volunteered my talents for the purpose of marketing them, and have learned a lot. Seeing the people affected by things like the MARZ project, a youth after-school program, I really thought about how much potential is there. If more equipment and facilities were made available this could help build a community that I think is really lacking around here, and it helps get youth doing productive things that can help with their future. Learning the arts and technology related to creating has direct professional potential, and the skills that go into creating can really transform a person to be successful in the future. There are very few if any other after school programs available for high school aged people, it's something I strongly feel needs to grow. And I'm just talking about one of the many projects supported by the organization.
Within the last year I have become involved with The Ink People Center for the Arts. It has been like being welcomed home into a community of artists. I have met so many wonderful people and been exposed to many great creative endeavors. I tend to be a real hermit and have trouble getting out and socializing. But I saw a call for entries for The Ink People Maskabition 2009 and I had to enter. I contacted the office and spoke to Tanya who enthusiastically encouraged me to not only enter a piece into the show, but to come in and volunteer help setting up the exhibit. I did and had a wonderful time. I have continued to volunteer as much as I can since then and am always eager to get involved with such a caring and devoted group of talented people. Their MARZ project is great for the youth in our area and the kids I see there are always eager and enthusiastic. This group caters to the needs of all ages and a diverse population and does so with commitment and spirit. Caring and creativity are alive and growing in Humboldt County and The Ink People are one of the wellsprings from which they spread!
Last year I started ManifestPositivity.org, which led to a lot of networking in the community. The person I was most referred to was Libby Maynard, Executive Director of The Ink People (TIP). When I finally contacted her, she invited me in to meet her. I immediately started volunteering to promote TIP, making a TV commercial to promote the upcoming 30th Anniversary Beaux Arts Ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxNnaRtfLYo). I also went out on the street and got quotes for a 10 minute tribute video in which everybody about town gushes their love for TIP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So6mkdO2QoE). A few weeks later I successfully applied to the DreamMaker program, committing to a strategic alliance that gives Manifest Positivity non-profit status, access to TIP facilities, resources, and administration, and most importantly a comfortable nesting space under Libby's wing.
I have known The Ink People since its inception, 30 years ago. I have been an active member, a board member and now a distant but approving observer of this group that continues to serve the artist community at the grass roots level in more ways then can be enumerated. The Ink People, through ups and downs, very tight economic times and near shut downs, has garnered community support and love enough to help it continue and flourish. This has been facilitated by the tireless and dedicated director and volunteers. By continuing to change and serve the local art community, The Ink People has become an indispensable Humboldt County organization.
Two very active members of the local arts community were sitting together at a coffee shop, and I recognized that the two of them were a force to be reckoned with. I asked them what they were working on. The two of them were coordinating the Artware Affair, The Ink People Center for the Arts Annual Fundraiser. The Ink People has a name that I recognized as an artists resource, so I offered to help however I could. It was then that I found myself the volunteer coordinator. The Ink People has been serving Humboldt County Artisans for over 30 years, and their current list of active volunteers is expansive. I simply needed to give out an all call for help at this event, and the community response was wonderful. Since then, I've found myself working closely with the Ink People in the vision of empowering youth with media training and music education. As a central network, The Ink People is a valued and vibrant collective of artists and community members.
This letter of review is offered in support of the exceptional role fulfilled by InkPeople for the benefit of Northern Humboldt County. As a local resident for many years, it occurs to me that Libby and the InkPeople staff have constantly endeavored to further the expansion of creativity throughout our local community on many levels. There are doubtless others who can better provide the specifics, i.e., the lengthy series of successful undertakings effected during the existence of InkPeople. My comments will be offered in the general sense and in this context the presence of InkPeople in Eureka remains an invaluable asset for the community. The author of this review is a native of metropolitan New York and speaking as such, it seems apparent that the relative dearth of locally-based culture and enterprise would be exacerbated without the presence of InkPeople. In short, the continued presence of InkPeople in Eureka under the extremely able stewardship of Libby Maynard remains a relevant and functional benefit to our local community. Scott Zagoria 300 Carter Lane, Eureka, CA 95503
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The Ink People Center for the Arts has opened up new opportunities to me in the last year and a half that I have been with them. I have become part of the web of "community" in Humboldt County in a way that I cherish and appreciate every day! I have met so many wonderful and talented people in my time with The Ink People (TIP). TIP offers so much more than a supporting spring board for local artists and organizations... it is a large multifaceted family of creative beings. TIP is a foundation for people who are artistic, creative, & community service minded. It is the hub of a giant wheel of cultural groups & events throughout Humboldt County. It is a vital part of the Community and the support that they receive from the community is vital to TIP. They are woven together into a very intricate cultural experience like nothing I have experienced anywhere else that I've ever lived. I Love Ink People... and they love me right back! That is food for my soul!
I have been an active member of The Ink People Center for the Arts for several years. I feel the Ink People does a great job reaching into the community to make art (in many forms) accessible to youth and adults. They have been successful in helping groups establish themselves and become growing art-links through their incubator programs. Working together with business in the area, they provide additional exhibit space for artists. The range of classes offered through TIP is amazing.
The Ink People have been a unlimited source of information and support for myself and fellow artists within my company. I am continually pleased and surprised at the amount of time and effort that is offered (going far beyond what would be expected), I always feel as though they are specifically there just to help me and my organization grow and prosper - though I know that this is a constant for all the local organizations that seek the Ink People's assistance. My performing arts company has benefited through a program that the Ink People sponsor called Dream Makers; through this program my company has had the opportunity to present work and apply for grants that otherwise would not have been possible. They are a remarkable organization with an expertise hard to match but what makes the Ink People so special is that they truly care about the arts and insuring that all individuals have an opportunity to participate and get involved with local arts programming. My deepest thanks and gratitude to Libby Maynard, she has made the Ink People an arts organization that is a cornerstone of Humboldt County.