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“Look Here” one-night art salon of Tacoma art next week on the Hilltop

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:11:49 +0000

If you don’t look now, “Look Here” will be gone. A salon-style art exhibition featuring 14 Tacoma visual artists, “Look Here” is a one-night art stand in a temporary space on Earnest S. Brazill Street in Tacoma’s Hilltop, happening next Thursday.

The brainchild of artist Victoria Johnson, the salon features work by Johnson herself as well as Bill Colby, Lynn Di Nino, Karen Doten, Kristin Giordano, Lisa Kinoshita, Janet Marcavage, Yuki Nakamura, Nicholas Nyland, Frederic Quinn, Betty Sapp Ragan, William Turner, Emily Wood and Otto Youngers, and ranges over sculpture, printmaking, painting, ceramics, photography and mixed media.

Says Johnson: “Artists …

Ballet, art, music, film and fun all meet at Tacoma City Ballet’s 10th Mid-Winter Masquerade Ball Soirée, Saturday night at the Merlino Building

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:00:23 +0000

The Jan Collum Ballroom in the historic Merlino Building is perfect for a party: a sweeping balcony, gold Art Deco molding, the exotic whiff of ballet resin in the air. So that’s exactly what Tacoma City Ballet does every six months or so – transform its main rehearsal space into an elegant party scene filled with dance, music, fine art, film and food. On this Saturday, the next soirée has an added bit of fun: a masquerade ball.

Along with work by local photographers like Bill Hinsee, Jessie Felix, Denise Knudson and Scott Nelson, films by Ellington Tynes, poetry …

Third Thursday ArtWalk in Tacoma is now Art Mingle, run by newly renamed Tacoma Art Group

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:26:34 +0000

It isn’t ArtWalk anymore. Nor is it called Third Thursday, at least by the folks who organize it. No, Tacoma’s monthly third Thursday evening – when museums are free and galleries open late with new exhibits – will now be called Art Mingle, and the former ArtWalk group that got the whole thing going 30 years ago is now called Tacoma Art Group, with more members than ever to spread the event over the whole city.

“We have less of a walk scenario than most cities,” explains Gary Boone, owner of B2 Fine Arts Gallery and co-president with …

Clouds of art in Tacoma’s new Woolworth Windows installation

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:26:32 +0000

Just when the weather’s finally warming up, we get clouds of art. The latest Spaceworks installation in the Woolworth Windows in downtown Tacoma features three artists – all female, not sure if that means anything – playing with clouds in form, metaphor and effect, using paper, fabric and straw to create art that wafts through the windows’ large interiors.

On the uptown end University of Puget Sound-based printmaker Janet Marcavage continues her rather dry, formal investigation of patterns and textures. This time she takes the ubiquitous stripe – think college dorm sheets, tacky business shirts – and transmutes it …

Monarch Sculpture Park in Tenino to remain open

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:51:19 +0000

Community leaders from Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and Tenino have just secured funding to keep the Monarch Sculpture Park open for the year. The 13-year-old non-profit park located south-east of Olympia was slated for closure at the end of this month due to the health and financial difficulties of Myrna Orsini, founding director.

The local group, spearheaded by Commissioner Sandra Romero and Jack Horton, President of the Woodland Trails Association, is also working on securing funding partners to ensure that the park remains open for future generations, says Orsini, 70, and developing a plan for organizing the park’s infrastructure so that current …

Art Walk is tonight

Craig Sailor — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:04:51 +0000

Here’s your friendly reminder that today is a third Thursday and that means Art Walk in downtown Tacoma.

It runs 5-8 p.m. Click on the link for a list of venues.

One other reminder: Did you remember to file your taxes?

Art sale to benefit injured deputy’s daughter

Craig Sailor — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:33:04 +0000

Local artists are donating their work to help the daughter of a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy injured in a paralyzing car crash.

The January 4 accident left Richelle Heacock, a college athlete, paralyzed from the chest down.

Heacock was returning home from school in Oregon at the time to attend the memorial service for slain sheriff’s deputy Kent Mundell, who worked alongside her father in the Sheriff’s Department Mountain Detachment.

The two-day sale at the Robert Daniel Gallery features painting, prints, jewelry, photography, posters, wine, bedding and blown glass. Over 50 items will be for sale from $20 to $2,000.
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Metal-Urge finishes this weekend – check out Traver

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:36:37 +0000

Nancy Worden, “Shackles of Fear.” Photo courtesy Traver Gallery.

It’s nearly over, the three-month-long metal arts extravaganza called Metal Urge that took over virtually every gallery in town, plus a museum and several outdoor spaces. The official closing date is this Sunday, September 6, so there’s just enough time to check out one last exhibit: Traver’s five-person mini-show.

Like a very condensed version of the Helen Williams Drutt exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum, Traver displays around three works from each of five contemporary American metal artists. Nancy Worden is represented by

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“Rabbitual” takes over Two Vaults

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:04:28 +0000

Zoe Williams, “Genesis Deconstruction”. Photo courtesy Two Vaults.

Rabbits are running wild all over Two Vaults gallery. The annual group show “Rabbitual” is on almost every single wall, featuring 77 works by 45 different artists, and there’s a huge variety: some what you’d expect, some disappointing, but some really intriguing.

It’s impossible to cover such a huge show completely. “Rabbitual” is this year’s version of Two Vaults’ annual big group show, and the variety of media is great to see: paint, ceramics, concrete, textiles, mixed and digital media.

One of the

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Farewell, Grand Impromptu Gallery…

Rosemary Ponnekanti — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +0000

The Grand Impromptu Gallery, in the Merlino building in downtown Tacoma.

If you want to see the art in the Grand Impromptu Gallery, you only have four more days. The artist co-operative-run gallery next to The Grand Cinema downtown is closing doors for good this Sunday, forced out of their space by planned expansions by The Grand.

The Grand Impromptu opened doors nearly two years ago after Art on Center vacated the space at 608 S. Fawcett. St. Members shifted and joined during the two years, sharing rent and expenses as well

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