Tacoma's Festival of Trees includes young artists
The Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center was abuzz Tuesday as hundreds of volunteers bedecked 60 trees with varied ornaments, sprays of glitter and festoons of sparkling lights for this weekend’s 26th annual Festival of Trees.
The Seattle Art Museum is restoring a 1947 Jackson Pollock painting that was altered in the 1970s with a coat of varnish.
If you know Nikki McClure’s work, chances are you know it from one of her calendars or books. Apart from Dale Chihuly, it’s hard to think of another regional artist who has so embedded their work in the collective visual consciousness of South Sound. Her restrained, almost stylized white-on-black portraits of ordinary Northwesterners living a sustainable lifestyle of cooking soup and picking huckleberries are found in homes throughout the region.
Sold, for $21,005. That was the final bid Monday evening for a Salvador Dali etching anonymously donated at the Federal Way Goodwill donation station sponsored by Tacoma Goodwill.
The Stadium High alumni's oil-on-glass paintings convey humanity's complexities. The show runs through Feb. 3 at Tacoma's Museum of Glass.
The final three performances of Lucille Fletcher’s “Night Watch” at Tacoma Little Theatre are tonight, Saturday and Sunday. This taut and suspenseful play is an edge-of-the-seat fright in the Alfred Hitchcock style.
It’s a dream come true worthy of Disney itself: Four young skaters from Tacoma, Yelm and Puyallup totter onto the ice as preschoolers, train hard all the way through school, and win the audition to skate with touring blockbuster Disney On Ice. But unlike “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel,” this tale is actually true, and those four local skaters will perform for their hometown crowd when Disney On Ice’s “Dare to Dream” show brings its skating fairy tales to Kent’s Showare Center next week.
It’s one of Mozart’s most popular operas – yet it’s also one of the least kind to women. “Cos fan tutte,” with its small cast, eternal themes of love and loyalty and music to swoon for, is a favorite among opera companies the world over.
Ask Rosalind Bell to talk about her experiences as an African American in a newly integrated high school in Lake Charles, La., during the late 1960s, and she won’t. But the Tacoma playwright has put those experiences of racism, friendship and growing up into “1620 Bank Street,” a play that’s seeing its first full production this weekend at the University of Puget Sound, where Bell is artist-in-residence.
There’s been a lot of Cuba in Tacoma lately. There have been concerts by Cuban musicians, Sister Cities events and tonight, there is a free public talk by Cuban-American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mirta Ojito.
If you think reworking an entire floor of Seattle Art Museum to show art just by women is a feminist statement, then imagine reworking that entire floor at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Tacoma Art Museum is claiming Michael Kenna. Sure, the world-renowned photographer of minimalist, black-and-white beauty was born in England and now lives in Seattle. But the museum has had Kenna connections since the artist first came to the United States in 1977 (and again when he recently moved back to the Northwest), so TAM is claiming Kenna as its own with the artist’s first U.S. retrospective in nearly 20 years.
A delegation is visiting Tacoma from Biot, France, a city of roughly 10,000 that became Tacoma’s 12th sister city this week.
As Dale Chihuly put the finishing touches on a painting, his vice president of operations, Billy O’Neill, set the edges on fire with a blowtorch. Luckily, the Museum of Glass hot shop is a pretty safe place to play with fire – a gaffer had a damp rag handy, and the smoky edges were, after all, part of the art.
The Fall Free-for-All included broad range of arts and entertainment in the Broadway Center on a sun-warmed Saturday afternoon downtown.
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