GO Arts » Nate Dybevik piano http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts Everything new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound. Fri, 24 May 2013 12:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Spaceworks works, at least in the Hilltop, says City of Tacoma http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/02/28/spaceworks-works-at-least-in-the-hilltop-says-city-of-tacoma/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/02/28/spaceworks-works-at-least-in-the-hilltop-says-city-of-tacoma/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:03:45 +0000 Rosemary Ponnekanti http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/?p=3772

Spaceworks Tacoma has been filling vacant downtown commercial space with art for a few years now, and the benefits to artists have been obvious: more exposure, cheap venues, different audiences. The benefits to the community are harder to quantify, but include more street traffic and the uplift that comes from art anyway, and more and more properties have been drawn into this collaboration between the City of Tacoma, the Chamber of Commerce and arts non-profit Shunpike. In 2011 alone Spaceworks supported 18 creative enterprises, exhibited 28 art installations, occupied 20 retail spaces, supported over 70 events and attracted …

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