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Alec Clayton on May 16th, 2013
The Northwest Pastel Society's 27th Annual International Open Exhibition at American Art Company features works from 58 artists from across the United States and Canada. Almost half the gallery is taken up with nice little landscapes that are amazingly similar to one another, and about a quarter of the gallery
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Alec Clayton on May 15th, 2013
The Northwest Pastel Society's 27th Annual International Open Exhibition at American Art Company features works from 58 artists from across the United States and Canada. Almost half the gallery is taken up with nice little landscapes that are amazingly similar to one another, and about a quarter of the gallery
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Alec Clayton on May 8th, 2013
My admiration for Lisa Sweet is growing. I was impressed with the pieces she had in the recent "Finish" show at The Evergreen State College and even more impressed with her work in the current show at Childhood's End Gallery - "Printmakers: The Art of the Hand Pulled Print." It
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Alec Clayton on May 8th, 2013
My admiration for Lisa Sweet is growing. I was impressed with the pieces she had in the recent "Finish" show at The Evergreen State College and even more impressed with her work in the current show at Childhood's End Gallery - "Printmakers: The Art of the Hand Pulled Print." It
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Alec Clayton on May 1st, 2013
Exhibiting works by Northwest glass artists alongside selected works from their personal art collections is an intriguing concept for an art exhibition. This is what you can find in the Northwest Artists Collect exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. Seven favorite regional glass artists are shown with works
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Alec Clayton on May 1st, 2013
Exhibiting works by Northwest glass artists alongside selected works from their personal art collections is an intriguing concept for an art exhibition. This is what you can find in the Northwest Artists Collect exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. Seven favorite regional glass artists are shown with works
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Alec Clayton on April 29th, 2013
Who remembers the '60s or wishes they did? I'm not talking about all those who claimed to be at Woodstock but never were - but yes, I guess them too, because what I'm talking about here is nostalgia for an era, the art and the music and
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Alec Clayton on April 24th, 2013
Peter Sheesley is a talented and prolific painter. His previous show at Fulcrum, paintings from photos taken in Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry, was excellent. But his latest show fails on many levels.
The show is called ¿What is Truth? And it consists of 10 paintings, each depicting a naked
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Alec Clayton on April 17th, 2013
Works in theme shows often tend to be arbitrary, but when The Evergreen State College puts up a theme show they do it right. They thoroughly, intellectually and aesthetically investigate the theme. The theme of TESC's latest show, featuring works by visual arts faculty and staff, is the idea of
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Alec Clayton on April 11th, 2013
Count yourself blessed, Tacoma, because you get to see something few people in the world have seen. Throughout his career Eric Carle, famous for children's books such as Brown Bear - Brown Bear, What Do You See? And The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more than 70 other picture books -
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Alec Clayton on April 23rd, 2013
Olympia Arts Walk runs two days - Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27 - with shows and events throughout downtown Olympia. It's one of the biggest arts celebrations anywhere, rivaling the Freemont Solstice Parade for fun, entertainment and colorful sights (the only thing missing is the naked bikers).
The following
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Alec Clayton on April 16th, 2013
Who remembers the '60s or wishes they did? I'm not talking about all those who claimed to be at Woodstock but never were - but yes, I guess them too, because what I'm talking about here is nostalgia for an era, the art and the music and the way of
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Alec Clayton on April 9th, 2013
THE INSIDE SCOOP >>>
Tacoma Art Museum Director Stephanie Stebich will lecture on the personal and private art of children's book artist Eric Carle Wednesday, April 10 at 10:30 a.m. The lecture is free with museum admission, and it should be as special as is the exhibition because she is a
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Alec Clayton on April 2nd, 2013
IT CAN BE DONE >>>
Here's how art gets created: the artist gets an idea then makes a sketch of what he envisions and then makes it. Pretty simple, huh? But what if the vision is something he has no idea how to make or he simply doesn't
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Alec Clayton on March 26th, 2013
LOCAL SHOW PREVIEW >>>
Brooks Dental Studio at 732 Broadway, Suite 101 in Tacoma's Theater District may be an unusual venue for an art exhibition, but it is a stylish space in a converted garage where they have been showing art for the past five years. Dentist Dr. Jamie Brooks says
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Alec Clayton on March 12th, 2013
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For reasons I can probably never explain both Al Taylor's untitled acrylic painting and Joel Shapiro's untitled charcoal drawing in the Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon show at Tacoma Art Museum remind me of paintings by Jeremy Mangan. Taylor's little
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Alec Clayton on February 26th, 2013
CHECKING IN WITH THE CONE >>>
I've been neglecting the Museum of Glass lately. Shame on me. MOG is one of the Northwest's premiere art museums and it has not one, not two, not three, but four new shows that I have not seen or reviewed.
"Northwest Artists Collect" has been open
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Alec Clayton on February 19th, 2013
HOMELESS OUT OF SEATTLE >>>
The memory part of my ageing brain fails to dredge up a clear picture of where I first saw Mary Larson's portraits of homeless people in Seattle. I think it was some documentary on telvision, or perhaps I walked into some gallery in the Emerald City
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Alec Clayton on February 12th, 2013
Who are the important artists today? Someone posed that question on Facebook (Actually she said painters, not artists, but I don't follow instructions well).
Hardy anybody responded and those who did said things like nobody younger than 60 is important. One person listed a whole bunch of people who are dead
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Alec Clayton on February 5th, 2013
THERE'S ART AND THEN THERE'S ART >>>
There's art, and there's A-R-T art with capital letters. Or maybe I should say there's art and there's an art. How many times have you heard someone says cooking is an art or fly tying is an art or there's an art to ...
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