Tacoma Arts wins $25,000 InnOVATION Grant
Reposted from Spaceworks Tacoma The arts in Tacoma and the Spaceworks program have received a big boost with a $25,000 innOVATION Grant from arts-programming network Ovation in partnership with Americans for…
Read articleAt Home with Art
It’s been two months since the Spaceworks Cakewalk. As a means of celebrating the close of a fabulous Art at Work month, join Kate Albert Ward in taking a peek at where some of the artworks won at the Cakewalk have ended up.
Read articleGive Tacoma
November 27th is #GivingTuesday, the most recent opportunity in a growing list of consumer possibilities foisted upon us right after Thanksgiving. But Giving Tuesday is my new favorite for a few reasons: As I age, I need fewer things and therefore enjoy encouraging others to instead spend money on causes and experiences. Every year it gets easier to support the efforts that mean the most to me, thanks to the internet. Tacoma is a town involved in lots and lots of good work.
Read articleTacoma-inspired Halloween Costumes
This year, forgo the debasing generic Halloween costume from a warehouse store in favor of a creative costume that displays your Tacoma pride. Join author Kate Albert Ward and local cartoonist R.R. Anderson in exploring just a few of the many possibilities for Tacoma-specific costumes.
Read articleSpaceworks Tacoma
Over the past two years, the Spaceworks Tacoma program has helped many local artists and creative entrepreneurs find donated space to show their work and launch their creative endeavors. Spaceworks Tacoma supports both the arts and small businesses in Tacoma– learn how you can support them too!
Read articleTacoma Artists Versus the Art World Establishment
William and Sarah Traver, the dynamic, Northwest trendsetting, father/daughter gallerists, closed their Tacoma gallery location June 1st, not quite making it to the 10 year mark. And although this is arguably a blow to the local art scene, I can’t decide how bad a blow it is.
Does losing this exhibition space impact Tacoma’s art scene? What about the collector scene? And what does it mean to Tacoma that we can’t keep a high-end gallery open? And do any of these “scenes” actually exist?
Read articleGoldfinch on a Wing
Goldfinch has been “an active part of the arts community in Tacoma for many years, and I think that using a random space in the city to record in a non-sterile environment makes the most sense,” singer Aaron Steven says. “After all, we are not a hermetically sealed city, and I don’t believe our art should be, either.”
Read article10 Years of Art in the F.W. Woolworth Building
Today, the Woolworth Building’s broad storefront windows provide a unique, open-air exhibition space for art, and no longer advertise the inexpensive household goods that attracted window shoppers from 1950 on.
Read articleWorthy of Woolworth?
Artist Amy Bay installed “Bramble” in the Woolworth Window but the finished work fails to communicate her vision as she explores nature and civilization.
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