Tacoma Art Museum Receives First Arts Education Grant in Ten Years
By Aigner Loren Wilson This past January, Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) won a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant […]
Sharon Styer Collages at Harlequin Productions
ART REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Tacoma artist Sharon Styer is primarily known as a photographer whose photographs of vacant and abandoned buildings, […]
Hundreds of Paintings: a Visit to Art House Designs
Review by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Art House Designs is a large frame shop and gallery with hundreds and hundreds of paintings, prints and […]
South Puget Sound Community College Gallery to Be Named After Retiring Trustee
By Alec Clayton The art gallery in South Puget Sound Community College’s Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts will be named for retiring trustee […]
Street Art Serves as Foundation for Olympia Artists
By Anna Schlecht Olympia has become a “city of murals”, with an ever-growing number of large format artworks on walls across the urban hub and […]
Susan Aurand: Realism Meets Experimentation Meets Mysterious
By ALEC CLAYTON Almost everyone familiar with the Olympia art scene knows – or should know – Susan Aurand’s work. For many years, beginning in […]
Art Takes Flight Inside Hummingbird Studio
By ALEC CLAYTON On a Wednesday morning in November, over 20 people gather around two long tables in downtown Olympia’s Hummingbird Studio. They’re students at […]
Paintings by Bill Collins and collages by Gail Ramsey Wharton at Allsorts Gallery
ART REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Bill Collins and Gail Ramsey Wharton are the perfect pairing for a Halloween show. The imagery in […]
Melinda Hurst Frye and Cyrra Robinson Show What Lies Beneath at SPSCC
ART REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS The exhibition now showing in the gallery at South Puget Sound Community College is amazingly lush and […]
Marilyn Frasca Offers Open Moments at Childhood’s End Gallery
By ALEC CLAYTON It is a rare artist who gets invited to mount a one-person show at Childhood’s End Gallery. According to owner Richenda Richardson, […]