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Janice Arnold's Palace Yurt at the Smithsonian in 2009 was a contemporary take on ancient Mongolian palace yurts. Designed specifically for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's 2009 "Fashioning Felt" exhibition in New York, it was made to fit the arched ceiling of the museum's conservatory and filled the space like
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The Kittredge Gallery at University of Puget Sound has two excellent art exhibits through Nov. 9. The front gallery features prints by Randy Bolton that provide delightful and thoughtful commentary on the world we live in. The title of his show, "Have a Terrific Great Nice OK Day," offers a
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Get ready, Tacoma. The 12th annual Tacoma Studio Tour is happening Nov. 2 and 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. - that's two full days to visit some of Tacoma's better artists where they create their work, talk to them, view their art and enjoy demonstrations. You might even
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Picture if you can sculpted figures with the strength and sensuality of a Rodin, but not idealized in any way - realistic sculptures of people who may be a little overweight or less than movie-star beautiful, in natural but perhaps awkward poses with faces that register pain. Now imagine they
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To the best of my knowledge, Arbutus Folk School opening in Olympia Oct. 19 will be the first school of its type in the Pacific Northwest. The school at 600 Fourth Ave. E. will offer classes in such arcane (and common) crafts as Scandinavian knife making, blacksmithing, woodworking, top-bar beehive
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The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians recreating an
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Meghan Mitchell's drawings in the show "Hello" at Fulcrum Gallery are delightful. I could easily dismiss them as cute little drawings not really important as art, but I could just as easily dismiss the art of great graphic artists like Saul Steinberg and Jules Feiffer in the same way. I
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There's a maze in a whirlwind in front of the Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia. Children love it. And so do art lovers, because it is a large-scale work of art by internationally renowned sculptor Patrick Daugherty. South Sound art lovers will recall Daugherty's delightful and amazing "Call of the
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The gallery at downtown Olympia's Olyphant Art Supply seems to attract artists who are new to Olympia. Case in point: Hart James, who is certainly not new to art but is new to Olympia. Her first Olympia show at Olyphant features 20 small assemblage/collages with surrealistic images, lots of gilded
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The 11th Annual Local Juried Art Exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College may be the biggest ever, with 40 artists and some of them represented by multiple pieces; yet the show does not seem crowded. As with all juried exhibitions, there is some good stuff and some not-so-good, but
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Kristin Giordano's photographs of Doha, Qatar at Kittredge Gallery on campus at University of Puget Sound are haunting, lonely and disturbingly beautiful. Paul Landacre's wood engravings in the smaller back gallery represent a fine sampling of works by a little known but leading engraver of the early 20th century. Together
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Otto Younger's sculptures in the Handforth Gallery spill out of the gallery space to inhabit sections of the entire gallery, first and second floor and even the windows above the main entrance. They are big, bold, hysterically funny and insightfully satirical. What Youngers has created is a parody of museum
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Musical performances during openings at B2 Fine Art Gallery are nothing new, but the gallery is branching out into music in a big way with the first of a two-part series of art celebrating music. "SPIN 1: American Vinyl Exhibition" is the first of two shows with portraits of musicians
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During the Renaissance, artists learned their craft by spending countless hours in museums painstakingly copying the works of earlier masters. That kind of dedication and discipline is rare today, but we see it in Paris Reid's paintings, a few of which are now on display at Olyphant Art Supply in
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Among the new artists showing at Matter in Olympia are Mark Randall, Steven Suski, Rachel Juzeler and Lita Kenyon. Suski is certainly not new to Olympia, but he has some new works in Matter that are exciting. They are paintings of rock stars in acrylic on long play vinyl records.
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My review of "Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection" at Tacoma Art Museum (The Weekly Volcano June 20) barely touched the surface of this large, varied and exciting exhibition. I said nothing about Fay Jones' large acrylic painting "Big Fish - Small Pond." But what
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The Exhibition of Korean Artists and Korean Artists Association of Washington is now open at the gallery at Tacoma Community College. It is an interesting show if somewhat uneven in quality. Both amateur and professional artists are included. If I understand correctly from the press release, most if not all
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Artist Susan Christian has opened her downtown Olympia studio space for exhibitions and events. She calls the space Salon Refu after the famous Salon de Refusés that made the French Impressionists famous. The latest show in the space is an exhibition of prints by Haley Bea. I never before heard of
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The latest works by Ron Hinton (not to be confused with Ron Hinson) at Childhood's End are more dynamic than anything of his I've seen before. At least the wall-hanging sculptures. The free-standing pieces on pedestals are more of the same stuff I've seen from him in the past -
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Leonardo Lanzolla's swimmers (La Bagnanti) are making a big splash at B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma's Triangle District. If you saw Lanzolla's paintings in his last show at B2, that was just a warm-up. The paintings in this show are far superior. The lyrical forms, the ways in which he