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Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.
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It took almost seven years and $174,000 to repair and now “Water Forest” has risen again on the plaza outside Tacoma’s Museum of Glass.
The sculpture-fountain made of 20 vertical water-filled tubes began operating around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Amy McBride, the city of Tacoma’s arts administrator, said the structure appears to be working but further testing and “tweaking” will be ongoing.
“It looks really promising. We’re really excited about it,” McBride said Wednesday. The piece has been completely reengineered, she said. “We just want this to run right.”
The original work, made by acclaimed Rhode Island artist Howard Ben Tre, cost the city $208,000. It was damaged by a boy who bumped into it soon after its 2002 installation and subsequently removed for repairs.
"Water Forest" made a return to the plaza outside the Museum of Glass Wednesday. (Craig Sailor/The News Tribune)
Peter Chang, Bracelet, 1992. Acrylic, PVC, and found objects. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Helen Williams Drutt Collection, gift of the Morgan Foundation. © Peter Chang.
Iron Man would feel right at home in Tacoma this summer.
Metal-Urge, a celebration of metal arts, is being forged all summer long with 100 metal artists at 24 downtown venues. It begins Saturday and runs through September 20.
The marquee events are two major metal art-oriented exhibits at the Tacoma Art Museum. The first (Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt English Collection) opens Saturday.
“We want Metal-Urge to attract people to the South Sound’s downtown like magnets to metal,” said Amy McBride City of Tacoma Arts Administrator.
Jewelry and metal/mixed media artists are showing their work at local galleries and other venues around town. For more information visit www.tacomaculture.org.
As posted below, the PLU music department is in China again, on their annual study trip and musical exchange between performers and composers from both countries. (BTW, we were wrong: dancer Robin Jaecklein is not, in fact, on this trip, but will leave on a second PLU trip in a couple of weeks.)
PLU professor and composer Greg Youtz is a veteran of these trips, and he's emailing updates for the GOArts blog. Here's the latest from Greg:
"Well, we knocked some serious socks off last night in Xian! The hall was nearly full- mostly conservatory students and faculty, but also 50 members of a band from a coal mine in the north of the province who had driven down by bus to hear us! The Wind Ensemble under Ed Powell began the
concert with a low-key Copland piece, and then got hotter and hotter. The audience seemed intrigued with John Adams' "Lallapalooza"- a giant whirling machine of intricate minimalist bits- they roared with approval my "Monkey King" with its Beijing Opera tunes and Chinese theme- and they were whooping at the end of David Joyner's "From Blueness to Brightness" in which they got their first taste of jazz...
After intermission the Jazz Ensemble took them on a ride from ballad to funk that ended in two encores and calls of "bu gou!" (not enough!). Afterwards both conductors and I and the drummer (!) Luke Peterson signed a lot of autographs...
Everyone taking care of us, from the Conservatory liaison person to our own tour guides, seemed a bit astonished at our success! So- we are feeling good, and heading off today to see the famous "Terracotta
Warriors" before flying to Chengdu this evening. The weather is sensational, the swine flu is absent, and we are stoked!"
-Greg Y
Deborah Page
Ladyfest, the not-for-profit celebration and showcase of female artists and performers, comes to Sanford and Son Saturday.
Though the event started in 2000 in Olympia (featuring Sleater-Kinney, Cat Power and Neko Case) it's been celebrated all over the world since then. And now it's made the 30 miles up I-5 to Tacoma.
The all-volunteer, community-produced day features performers Deborah Page, Voxxy Vallejo, Starstruck, Tammy Robacker, Brit Baab, Civita, the Barefoot Collective and more. Visual artists include Ann Koi, Jada Moon and Jayme Ferrari.
Admission for the all ages event (1 p.m. - 10 p.m.) is $10 and proceeds benefit Domestic Abuse Women's Network. Visit www.ladyfesttacoma.com/ for more info.
Sandford and Son is at 744 Commerce in Tacoma.
Art by Mindy Barker
