WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 2010 >>>
1. The Evergreen State College's Artist Lecture series starts off the new academic year with a presentation by John Grade at 11:30 a.m. inside Lecture Hall 1. He is the recipient of the 2010 Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, an Andy Warhol Foundation Award, two Pollock Krasner Foundation Awards, and a Tiffany Foundation Award.
2. James Minson will give a flameworking demonstration - the process of using a torch to heat up glass rods and then manipulate them into different shapes - from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the Museum of Glass' Hot Shop.
3. Bo Chambers, an art instructor rather than a crime fighter as the name suggests, will lead a series of classes titled "Art You A Wear" at Tacoma Art Place beginning today from 3-5:30 p.m. For more information, as well as to RSVP, call 253.238.1006.
4. Carolyn Cruso will sing folk, pop and Celtic-inspired acoustic tunes on the inside porch at A Rhapsody in Bloom beginning at 7 p.m.
5. The uninitiated may best know the Melvins by their creation of the dubious sub-genre known as sludge-rock. Marked by its definitional sluggishness, sludge-rock favors hard, plodding, perfect-head-banging metal over all else. The band performs in the South Sound for a second time this week with an 8:30 p.m. show with Totimoshi and Bone Sickness at the Capitol Theater.