Museum of Glass welcomes Donna, their TWO MILLIONTH visitor!
Today one lucky Tacoma tourist was rewarded with a prize package worth about $8,000 just for wanting to check out some glass art. Museum of Glass director Susan Warner was beaming with pride, “it’s...
View ArticleYour blankets would look better as art
Northwest artist Marie Watt really cares about blankets. “I am interested in human stories and rituals implicit in everyday objects. Currently I am exploring the history of wool blankets…Blankets hang...
View ArticleArtist Matika Wilbur takes on pervasive racism with Project 562
When Pacific Northwest native American artist Matika Wilbur showed her niece Anna Cook some of the portraits on display at the Tacoma Art Museum, she said, “god, I didn’t know there were so many cool...
View ArticleTen arts events in one at the Tacoma Post Office Building Art Walk
On June 19, a group of Tacoma’s working artists and Spaceworks Tacoma will be hosting quite a shindig at the downtown Tacoma Post Office Building, including the unveiling of recent renovations. Artist...
View ArticleSee Noah Struthers’ Fantastic Guts
If you’ve ever seen one of the illustrative, hand drawn posters for 2nd Cycle or Post Defiance’s pen-holding giant octopus, then you are familiar with artist Noah Struthers’ intricate pen work. For...
View ArticleMod Curio and Moss + Mineral make a neighborhood of art
In the arts walk tradition of creative communities worldwide, Tacoma’s Third Thursday brings together a diverse and enthusiastic group of art practitioners, consumers, and admirers. I’ve attended my...
View ArticleChandler O’Leary’s roadside attractions come home to the Handforth Gallery
Roadside attractions: you may remember them from long car trips across the country or random trivia nights with friends, but you probably haven’t encountered them as fine art. Tacoma artist Chandler...
View ArticleA Warhol bloom or bust?
Lately it seems I can’t open Facebook without being confronted by images of a Tacoma Dome covered with a flower, usually accompanied by pleadings of support for a Warhol flower. Deborah Kinerk wrote a...
View ArticleTo paint a giant flower on the Tacoma Dome. That is best.
Recently, my colleague and buddy Whitney thoughtfully critiqued our local ability to fundraise the means necessary to flowerify the Tacoma Dome. And I agree with her perspective when it comes to...
View ArticleFeature your art or art event on the Post Defiance site background
Post Defiance loves Tacoma art and its galleries and has been looking for the right way to feature it on the site for a while now. We think this concept might just work. In 2015 we are debuting the...
View ArticleLino Day: a fervent Lino Tagliapietra fan shares her love for the Maestro
Whenever Lino Tagliapietra comes to work at the Museum of Glass hot shop, I take a day off work to go watch him: Lino Day. It’s one of my favorite holidays. I can’t tell you whether you should take the...
View ArticleSee Warped Tour, new work by artist Sean Alexander at Brooks Dental Studio
Featured as the Post Defiance site background February 23-March 31, 2015: new artwork from Sean Alexander’s show at Artspace B at Brooks Dental Studio. Warped Tour, posters by Sean Alexander From the...
View Article“The Still-Life Tradition in the Northwest” on view at the Tacoma Art Museum...
Our site’s background may not feature a still-life painting, but it does feature the self-portraits of the enigmatic Northwest Mystic artist Morris Graves. Graves’ work is featured in the Tacoma Art...
View ArticleThe secret lives of discarded ephemera; or the cool shit Isaac Olsen found at...
Four years ago, artist and filmmaker Isaac Olsen worked at the Southend Value Village (now a Goodwill). Isaac had the unenviable job of digging through mystery trucks of donated items, sifting through...
View ArticleChandler O’Leary’s Old Town Dock art installation means you can find every...
A partnership with Metro Parks Tacoma and the City of Tacoma, Old Town Dock on Ruston Way has not only been restored and made accessible, it has also been accessorized in a very Tacoma way
View ArticleWUNDERKAMMER: Artifacts, False Memories and Projections opens July 18 at the...
From curator Lisa Kinoshita’s website: “The Renaissance wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, was a gallery of natural specimens, cultural artifacts, scientific instruments, anthropological objects,...
View ArticleVenice comes to Tacoma with Chihuly’s Venetians and a killer party. OK, fine,...
The press preview tour of Chihuly’s Venetians: The George R. Stroemple Collection was my first time setting foot in the Museum of Glass. Which, as someone whose diet is 50% Le Donut, 40% 1111 beer, and...
View ArticleTacoma artists versus the art world establishment
It’s been more than three years since Tacoma has a reliable, respected local art gallery. Three years ago I wrote about the closing of the Tacoma location of the William Traver Gallery and the...
View ArticleCurated by Jeremy Mangan, Circle of Friends brings together art from Tacoma...
Open September 17 through October 14, 2015, artist Jeremy Mangan presents “Circle of Friends,” a group art show at Fulcrum Gallery. This exhibition shares paintings and drawing from six different...
View Article2015 Wayzgoose letterpress prints featured at Brooks Dental Studio
Brooks Dental Studio has championed Northwest art in an innovative setting for years; for Tacoma Arts Month, Dr. Jamie and her team keep the tradition flourishing with a new exhibition: the 2015...
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