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Now showing at Childhood's End Gallery in Olympia are paintings by Chuck Gumpert and Alfred Currier, plus a group of the very popular half-man, half-bird ceramic sculptures by the husband-and-wife team of John and Robin Gumaelius. Gumpert is showing a group of a dozen loose, organic, abstract paintings that appear
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I got a sneak peek at the Davide Salvadore exhibition at William Traver Gallery in Tacoma, and I'm glad I got to see it. Salvadore is a Venetian glass artist from Murano, the glass art capital of the world. His art reflects the colorful traditions not of Venice,
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I got a sneak peek at the Davide Salvadore exhibition at William Traver Gallery in Tacoma, and I'm glad I got to see it. Salvadore is a Venetian glass artist from Murano, the glass art capital of the world. His art reflects the colorful traditions not of Venice, but of
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Imagine my surprise when I walked into the tenth anniversary Neddy Fellowship exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum and discovered that the show was more than twice the size I expected. Normally they show two or three works each from each of the eight fellowship nominees but, being
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Imagine my surprise when I walked into the 15th anniversary Neddy Fellowship exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum and discovered that the show was more than twice the size I expected. Normally they show two or three works each from each of the eight fellowship nominees but, being an anniversary show,
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So what is the Neddy? From the TAM Web site: "The Neddy Artist Fellowship was established in 1996 as memorial to Robert E. (Ned) Behnke (1948 - 1989) to recognize his contributions to the Northwest artistic community. The two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to Northwest
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So what is the Neddy? From the TAM Web site: "The Neddy Artist Fellowship was established in 1996 as memorial to Robert E. (Ned) Behnke (1948 - 1989) to recognize his contributions to the Northwest artistic community. The two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to Northwest
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It's Neddy time again. Every year I look forward to the Neddy show at Tacoma Art Museum, and every year I'm just a little bit disappointed. But along with the disappointment comes exhilaration because year after year the Neddy nominees seem to be split between some of the best artists
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Would you like to see why Jeremy Mangan won the 2009 Foundation of Art Award from The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation? A peek at his show at Fulcrum Gallery might provide a good clue. Mangan's paintings are inventive, thought provoking, humorous, technically marvelous and beautifully composed. What more
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Would you like to see why Jeremy Mangan won the 2009 Foundation of Art Award from The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation? A peek at his show at Fulcrum Gallery might provide a good clue. Mangan's paintings are inventive, thought provoking, humorous, technically marvelous and beautifully composed. What more can you ask
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Another one bites the dust. After four years (six if you count a previous incarnation), Paula Tutmarc-Johnson's Two Vaults Gallery will close its doors forever when their current show ends. "Our location, just two doors from The Grand Cinema, has proved to bring us a continued flow of art-minded folks. These
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The show is called Flow, and the drawings by Andrea Erickson and Maureen McHugh at mineral do present a nice flow of contrasting and blending styles. Their art is billed as calligraphic, which is highly descriptive of Erickson's sumi paintings, but McHugh's abstractions in ink are not so much
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The show is called Flow, and the drawings by Andrea Erickson and Maureen McHugh at mineral do present a nice flow of contrasting and blending styles. Their art is billed as calligraphic, which is highly descriptive of Erickson's sumi paintings, but McHugh's abstractions in ink are not so much calligraphic
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Guitarist David Lester and singer Jean Smith are the underground musical duo Mecca Normal. They are also visual artists, and they have curated and are featured in a month-long exhibition at the all-ages club Northern in Olympia. The show is called The Black Dot Museum: Political Artists from Vancouver. In
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Guitarist David Lester and singer Jean Smith are the underground musical duo Mecca Normal. They are also visual artists, and they have curated and are featured in a month-long exhibition at the all-ages club Northern in Olympia. The show is called The Black Dot Museum: Political Artists from Vancouver, and
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What a wonderful find! An unheralded and untrained artist with innate talent, guts and sincerity is discovered, and you can see his paintings and sculptures at Tacoma Art Supply. Don't miss this. Tyrone Patkoski is half Polish and half Native American. He has survived homelessness and mental illness, has never studied
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What a wonderful find! An unheralded and untrained artist with innate talent, guts and sincerity is discovered, and you can see his paintings and sculptures at Tacoma Art Supply. Don't miss this. Tyrone Patkoski is half Polish and half Native American. He has survived homelessness and mental illness, has never studied
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Bill Colby is a master of print media who works in intaglio, woodcuts and other media, often combining print media with watercolor and acrylic and typically using the natural grain of the wood in his woodcuts to create movement of water or other natural elements. Nature is his constant subject.
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There's a new gallery in town, and it's pretty cool. It's called The Brick House and it's in an old brick house on Fawcett between 11th and 13th. I had a hard time finding it because the only sign is neon and hanging in the window - not visible from
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord is on the verge of taking joint-basing to a whole new level. A recent release from JBLM confirmed that a long-term construction project for a new road and overpass that will cross over Perimeter Road, which bisects JBLM Main and McChord Field, has begun. The project will link
