Hard to believe that Art at Work month has been going for eight years now – the annual November celebration of how artists do their work still seems fresh. At the kickoff party last Thursday night at Tacoma Art Museum the atmosphere was upbeat: Tacomans from the visual art, theater, dance and music worlds gathered to remind themselves that this is a pretty rocking town art-wise. The AMOCAT awards (spells Tacoma backwards, in case you still haven’t figured it out) were given by the Tacoma Arts Commission in recognition of work well done to poet William Kupinse (individual outreach), …

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