Run frantically, hop in your car and navigate the urban jungle to the Tacoma Art Museum to enjoy the soothing tranquility of nature.  Vashon Island landscape painter Victoria Adams, known for such pastorals as River's Edge and Morning Shimmer, creates broad panoramas of the American countryside devoid of humans.  She sets horizons low in her frame to feature vast, meteorologically accurate skies in the Dutch tradition.  As a highlight of her exhibition Where Sky Meets Earth:  The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams, Adams will be in the Tacoma Art Museum Thursday evening (hurry, quick!) to stroll around and discuss her work with you, the goggle-eyed viewer.

[Tacoma Art Museum, 4 - 7 p.m., exhibition through Oct. 3, free after 5 p.m., 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.4258]