Jared Abwawo is both a math teacher and an artist - a photographer, to be exact. There's a certain precision in his art that would suggest as much. "The creative essence of the image has no language but its own. It is a communication from one human being to others," Abwawo says in pre-show hype. Read what he's talking about here.

[Tacoma Community College Gig Harbor campus, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 pm Friday, free, 3993 Hunt St., Gig Harbor, 253.566.5000]