August 6, 2011 at 6:05pm
MAKIN UR OWN WORDZ IZ VRY EASY >>>
During the month of August, think of Tollefson Plaza as one giant refrigerator door. Around 2 p.m. today Tacoma artist James Grayson Sinding dumped hundreds of hand-painted wooden words, refrigerator-magnet-style, onto the plaza in an installation he calls Words. The event organizers - Spaceworks Tacoma and the Tacoma Arts Commission's Tacoma Artists Initiative Program - hope that the addictive faux magnets will help break the ice among poets and non-poets, and open the community's eyes to public art in Tacoma.
Today's Words dump was in conjunction with the Tacoma Art Museum's "Free Summer Community Festival: Best of the Northwest" in which colorful chalk was also dropped on the Plaza. C.L.A.W. members and Frost Park Chalk Off participants were among the folks who chalked art.
In 2010, Sinding dumped Letters in Tollefson plaza, a public art project that was recognized by the Americans for the Arts 2011 Public Art Network Year in Review.
The public is invited to piece together poetry and interact with the Words installation through the end of the month.
My guess is the word "Tacoma" will be the first to disappear.
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Holland said on Aug. 06, 2011 at 11:14pm
Love this so much. It's community events and interactive art exhibits like this that make me so happy to live in Tacoma.
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