Clik here to view.
Free Arts Month: S.A.D. drawings at Fulcrum
For today I headed along Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It’s a pretty bleak street right now – lots of closed shopfronts – so thank goodness for the art. Tacoma Art Place (just along South 11th Street...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Calling Chihuly on the cell phone
Yesterday my free art event involved more public art, and something Tacoma’s famous for: blown glass and Dale Chihuly. We all might be used to glass art by now, but it’s worth remembering that we’re...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Chamber music and coffee at the Antique Sandwich Company
Tacoma’s blessed (no pun intended!) with plenty of free classical music on Sundays. This afternoon I had my choice of three terrific concerts – Brass Unlimited, an organ tour at Christ Episcopal, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: the Woolworth Windows, always on display
The Woolworth Windows downtown has morphed over the years as an art venue. Once run by the City of Tacoma, then by Tacoma Contemporary, and now by the City again as part of the Spaceworks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Freighthouse Art Gallery, full of stuff every day
Tacoma’s oldest artist-owned gallery has been in operation over 18 years now, but it’s easy to overlook it. Freighthouse Art Gallery is tucked away upstairs in the Freighthouse Square shopping center...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Going Pop – or “Post Pop” – at the Gallery at Tacoma...
I finally made it! The Gallery at TCC is another college-based art gallery that’s free and often open when others aren’t, and today it was definitely open, showing the latest exhibit “Post Pop Art.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Tacoma Art Museum (and several others), courtesy of your...
Libraries are wonderful places, and one of Tacoma’s best-kept arts secrets is hidden inside your local library – the Art Access Pass. Never heard of it? You’re not alone; most people I’ve mentioned it...
View ArticleFree Arts Month: Free Ya Mind with spoken word
I only caught the beginning of Free Ya Mind last night, but it was enough to give me a taste of this friendly, original spoken word evening, nearly a decade old now, at Tully’s on Broadway. Poets...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: Strings and organ in two concerts at University of Puget Sound
One great thing about free arts events (if you haven’t been following me, I’m almost at the end of blogging a whole month of one free arts event every day in Tacoma) is that if you haven’t paid for a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Arts Month: A vertical garden and painted murals in the South End
Well, it’s my last day of Free Arts Month! It’s taken a lot of effort, so I’m not sad that I’m stopping my expedition to take in a free arts event every day. But while it’s tiring, it can definitely be...
View Article
