The annual Humboldt Arts Council Member Exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art is a juried exhibition designed to highlight the art being produced by HAC artist members. Artists are invited to submit one piece of artwork for consideration to be included in this year’s exhibit, which is open to current members of the Humboldt Arts Council. (People can join HAC on entry day.) Submissions are $15 per entry, with a limit of one entry per artist.

Work can be from the visual arts discipline. Entries will be accepted at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., on Nov. 10 from noon to 5 p.m. Awards will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 2.

This year’s juror is Jim McVicker, who recently shared his work in the exhibit “25/25: Twenty Five Paintings of Humboldt County Artists, Twenty Five Works by the Artists” at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

At the age of 21, upon seeing 19th century French landscape paintings, McVicker had an awakening to art. The beauty and sensitivity he saw in those works changed his perception of the world. After attending art classes at Chaffey Community College in Southern California in 1975, McVicker decided to become a full-time painter. He moved from Ontario, where he was born and raised, to start a fresh life as a painter. He ultimately settled in Humboldt County, drawn here by the beauty of the North Coast, the art community and the chance to live a quieter, rural life.

With the exception of a couple adventures elsewhere, McVicker has remained in the county since 1977 and it is where his education and growth as a painter flourished. Painting from life, in both a studio on his property and outdoors, his oeuvre contains landscapes, still lifes and figure paintings.

Entry applications are available at the Morris Graves Museum of Art and online at www.humboldtarts.org.