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Thursday Night Talk: The Eureka Street Art Festival

KHSU | By Tom Wheeler,

Published March 5, 2019 at 3:08 PM PST

On the March 7th episode ofThursday Night Talk, the organizers of the Eureka Street Art festival joined Tom Wheeler to talk about this year's upcoming event. Listen below for a colorful discussion about the history of Humboldt County street art, the cultural importance of public art, and how art can act as a form of economic development.

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Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler is the Program Director and Staff Attorney at the Environmental Protection Information Center. Tom graduated from the University of Washington School of Law with a concentration in Environmental Law. When he’s not nerding out over the Endangered Species Act (his all-time favorite law), Tom is probably plunking the banjo, playing ping-pong with his wife, Jenna, or petting his cats, Fatty and Trim. Tom can be reached at tom@wildcalifornia.org.

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Michael Roccaforte

Michael Roccaforte is a KHSU Operations Coordinator and hosts the World and All Things Considered. He started out as a KHSU Experience student in 2015. He then graduated from HSU in 2016 with a Journalism degree and is happy to be working in Humboldt County at KHSU since.

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