Prints are not what they used to be. Not that artists do not still make etchings, lithographs and silkscreen prints, but what they do with these and other print media - often in inventive and never-before-thought-of combinations and employing new digital technologies - can be like nothing ever before seen.

Frank Janzen makes prints using smoke, Dionne Haroutounian combines print media and collage in ways that are almost indefinable, and Janet Marcavage creates sparkling optical prints using traditional media. These are but a few of the new and exciting works by Northwest printmakers to be seen in the new exhibition "Ink This! - Print Arts in the Northwest" at Tacoma Art Museum.

Read Alec Clayton full preview of "INK THIS" in the Music & Culture section.

"INK THIS!," 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, Tacoma Art Museum, June 7-Nov. 9, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, $8-$10, 253.272.4258