If you've waited this long to finish your holiday shopping, Spew will refrain from making you feel like the lowly lump of bulbous coal that you know you are. Because there’s only five shopping days before Christmas, we will instead think of our fellow man and lend you a helping hand. If you're looking to finish off the holiday shopping, please don't resort to scented candles just yet. We beg you. You can still find original gifts at tonight’s Third Thursday Art Walk, 5-8 p.m., in downtown Tacoma.

Paula Tutmarc-Johnson, owner of Two Vaults Gallery, encourages people to stop by her gallery at 602 S. Fawcett for some cookies, hot cider, hot chocolate and wine. “We want everyone to come in and party with us,” she says.  Currently on exhibit at the gallery are new paintings by Christopher Mathie emphasizing form and texture.

Tacoma’s Traver Gallery on East Dock Street has a new exhibit, which opens Dec. 15. It features the work of James Minson, an Australian who’s a graduate from Antioch University in Seattle. His glasswork is interesting and thought-provoking.

The Helm hosts local artists Zachary Marvick and Chris Sharp.  The show will feature a large scale ink and acrylic on plywood panel piece Marvick that measures 10' x 20'.  Chris Sharp will feature oil and acrylic paintings.

Tacoma Art Supply hosts professional and nationally published artist Heleodoro Heras who hangs at TAS from 7 to 8 p.m. Heras' work appears in many private and public collections, such as Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Kaiser Permanente and Alaska Airlines.

The Lark Gallery opens tonight with "Pixelations: Beyond The Visible," new paintings by Danielle McClenahan. 

Oliver Doriss, aka DJ Broam, curates the new Fulcrum Art Gallery tonight at 1308 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.  Check out Joseph Miller’s multimedia installation “Lambscapes.” â€" Suzy Stump and Jamie Forsythe