Arts reporter and critic Rosemary Ponnekanti keeps you in touch with the arts and culture scene with the help of other News Tribune writers, critics and editors.
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 29, 2009
The call to redesign Tacoma Art Museum's plaza and perimeter garnered 95 submissions. And now TAM has winnowed those down to six design firms, it announced today.
Submissions for the $3 million project were received by individuals and firms from Tacoma to New York.
The shortlist of finalists are BCRA (Tacoma), the design team led by E. [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 29, 2009
Justin Hahn, "Dresden A and B." Photo courtesy David Domkoski.
Don't look now, but there are aliens in the library.
Facetious, maybe, but on first sight, that's what Justin Hahn's sculptures in the main branch's Handforth Gallery look like. Four of them have skeletons of steel rod, draped with melted green or white plastic with the texture [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 26, 2009
Edmonds' Driftwood Players perform "Minnesota Moon" at 7:30 p.m. tonight for AACTFest. Image courtesy Judy Cullen.
AACTFest: the best of community theater
Community theater groups from around the country gathered this week in Tacoma for the biennial AACTFest; there are three public performances left. 1:30 p.m. today:
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 25, 2009
Big news for the BareFoot Collective: the contemporary dance company and its studio is moving into the Merlino Arts Building on the corner of 6th Avenue and S. Fawcett Street to share space with Tacoma City Ballet. The move will begin next week, and a farewell brunch to the old space at 1604 Center St.
It's [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 24, 2009
Di Morgan Graves, "We've Got Balls." Image courtesy Lynn Di Nino.
In the ongoing battle to convince the rest of the world that Tacoma is something more than an affordable Seattle suburb with high crime rates, our art community--led by the indefatiguable Lynn Di Nino--has come up with a brilliant idea: postcards of Tacoma, showing us [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 22, 2009
Lisa Kinoshita with one of her Vetri pieces. Photo: Lisa Kinoshita
If you're in downtown Seattle this week, drop by Vetri International (the up-and-coming-artist wing of Traver Gallery) to see the work of Tacoma jewelry artist Lisa Kinoshita.
Kinoshita operates very modestly out of a tiny storefront studio on Puyallup Ave called Mineral, but her work makes [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 17, 2009
The 100th Monkey art community party is on again, and this month it's at Old City Hall next Wednesday night. For those who haven't managed to go yet, here's the deal: Turn up with some food or drink to share, some art (if you're an artist) and prepare to meet some new folks. Result? You'll [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 16, 2009
For the fourth year, The Grand Cinema is holding its Tacoma Film Festival: one week of arthouse, indie, foreign and (especially) Northwest-made film. And once again, local artists get the chance to design the poster, which will be displayed all over the city. Last year's entries ranged from an Earth goddess with a camera to [...]
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 15, 2009
The makers of this UFO I found crashed next to the runway at the Vashon Island airport over the weekend were obviously smart enough to make it to Earth.
Unfortunately, no one told them about rust.
You just never know where you'll find public art.
Rosemary Ponnekanti | June 15, 2009
In the world of mixed media, this is something new to me. UP for Art (a University Place public art advocate group) and the Chambers Bay Golf Course are sponsoring the contest Up "Fore!" Art. They're asking for two- or three-dimensional art submissions comprised at least 25 per cent of golf accoutrements. Think Duchamp with [...]
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