Calm Spirit, an exhibition of 19 contemporary Korean artists, will celebrate an opening reception Thursday at the Handforth Gallery. Luckily for our chimpanzee sweatshop of word makers, curator Jung Ho Kim has already spoken: "The purpose of the exhibition is to introduce Korean contemporary art and its unique harmonization of grace and power, in addition to its noble and high quality, to the wider American public in order to spread greater awareness of the progressive contemporary movement within the Korean art world."  

[Handforth Gallery, through Sept. 8, gallery hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Tacoma Public Library, 102 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, 253.591.5666]