GO Arts » VA Puget Sound Clinic http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts Everything new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Mt. Rainier art mightn’t work for Olympia, but it’s perfect for Tacoma veterans’ clinic http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2011/12/31/mt-rainier-art-mightnt-work-for-olympia-but-its-perfect-for-tacoma-veterans-clinic/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2011/12/31/mt-rainier-art-mightnt-work-for-olympia-but-its-perfect-for-tacoma-veterans-clinic/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:51:13 +0000 Rosemary Ponnekanti http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/?p=3547

Olympia artist Kim Merriman has turned a rejection from Olympia’s new City Hall into a gift for herself and the new VA Puget Sound health clinic on American Lake in Tacoma: a triptych painting a light-infused scene of Mt. Rainier and Puget Sound in fused glass and brushed aluminum.

Merriman, who worked for 20 years as a portrait photographer and has recently begun working in glass and metal, created the triptych as a submission to the juried selection of art for Olympia’s new City Hall building. The glass piece shows a soaring blue-and-white Mt. Rainier, with sunset …

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