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Local illustrator Chandler O'Leary and printer Jessica Spring have created a poster in honor of the upcoming election and a woman's right to vote. The new broadside features a quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a social activist and champion of women's rights in the 19th century.
From the Anagram Press press release:
The broadside is printed from hand-lettered typography, on 10 x 18-inch archival, recycled paper, in an edition of 44 (coinciding with the number of the next president), and is priced at $30. For more information, check out the Anagram Press page below:
Call this a case of doggies redux. A canine comeback. A big wet sloppy cinematic pooch smooch.
It's the movie Tacoma can't seem to get enough of. It's "Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary," and it's returning the the Grand Cinema ... yet again.
The hilarious documentary about the peculiar world of professional dachshund racing was THE hit of the just-concluded Tacoma Film Festival, selling out two scheduled shows at the Grand Cinema and prompting the festival’s head honcho, Philip Cowan, to add yet another screening to accommodate the demand.
And now, even though the festival is finished, the demand hasn’t diminished. Cowan, the executive director of the Grand, says that two weeks after the festival wrapped up people are still coming up to him and asking if the movie will be brought back for a full-bore theatrical run. Well Grand fans, your wish is his command. The wieners will be returning on Oct. 31 for an open-ended run, Cowan announced today.
Looks like we haven’t seen the last of those low-slung pooches yet.
State funding body Artist Trust, in collaboration with the Washington State Arts Commission, has announced its 2008 Fellowship recipients--and they include two Pierce County artists. Philipe Mazuad (see above) now lives in Tacoma, but has shown his stark landscape black-and-white photographs in New York and Paris, as well as Rebecca V Gallery in Tacoma. Nicholas Nyland (see below) of Lakewood is quietly on the up-and-up in the Northwest, showing in local galleries as well as the Tacoma Art Museum's last Biennial.
Among the panelists was Qwalsius Shaun Peterson, is a Puyallup/Tulalip printmaker and carver, who's currently working on a pole for Tollefson Plaza.
Around the state, 21 recipients were chosen from 450 applicants for the fellowships, each of which award $7,500 in unrestricted cash.
More locally, the Pierce County Arts Commission has announced the winners of its 21st annual Margaret K. Williams Arts Awards: Amelia Haller for arts education, choreographer Carla Barragan for excellence in the arts, and Mardie Rees for arts career. Awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Tacoma Art Museum.
