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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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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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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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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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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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Look-a-likes 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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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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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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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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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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BRING IT TACOMA ART MUSEUM >>> CBS Sunday Morning did a segment on the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. I had never before heard of him, although I had seen some of his work without realizing whose work it was. Among other things, he collaborated on the design of the 2008 Summer
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ART ANALYSIS >>> I met painter William Quinn at an art opening and we talked a lot about art. Quinn is 83 years old. He's been around the block a time or two and knows of what he speaks. It's nice to talk to a painter about painting - a painter
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IT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK >>> I would like to take this opportunity to personally invite my readers to see if I can walk the walk. You already know I talk the talk. Seven of my paintings will be included in a show called Azul at B2 Fine Art Gallery, which opens Thursday
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SOUTH SOUND ART SCENE >>> I don't remember the exact dates but I know that for two or three years the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College was by far the best art gallery in the South Sound. Their annual juried shows featured
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LATE CHRISTMAS BOOK >>> If I had planned on recommending a book for art lovers for Christmas I would recommend the one that was given to me: Jackson Pollock: Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and from European Collections by Volkmar Essers. If you're a Pollock fan you're probably
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INVENTING ABSTRACTION >>> New York City is the art capital of the world. I know that's disappointing; you thought Tacoma was, but it's not. The Museum of Modern Art located in said city, staid institution that I is, is the end-all and be-all authority on modern art - and in particular the
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A TOURIST GUIDE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR >>> By all appearances Sean Alexander is obsessed with drawing. He was a Foundation of Art Award nominee in 2008 and again in 2011. He is the former owner of the Helm Gallery. His work has been shown in many venues from galleries to
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A FACEBOOK GROUP TO JOIN >>> Mian Carvin is a painter and a writer and a filmmaker from Olympia. She lives on a farm just out of town with goats and chickens and cats and her life partner of many years. Her abstract paintings, which I happen to like very much,
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RUNNING HORSES AND TROMPE L'OEIL PAINTINGS >>> A friend posted a photo on Facebook this morning. It was a sculpture of two horses mounted on the wall in such a way to create the impression that they were coming out of the wall in a powerful burst of motion. The form
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HERE COME THE SHOWS >>> This past summer Oliver Doriss was named winner of the 2012 Foundation of Art Award. It's a long-overdue award considering Doriss' contributions to Tacoma's art community both as a practicing glass artist, a DJ and as a gallery owner. And how fitting considering that a large
