Learn the essentials of animation with professional animator Hania Bielec at Thurston Community Media April 4th 1-3PM. Through in-class exercises, learn the basic principles of hand-drawn animation and apply them to bring your drawings to life. We will study how to sketch appealing key poses and add motion, movement, and gesture. Explore your creativity with …
For the first time, TC Media (Thurston Community Media) is bringing a professional television writers’ room to Olympia. The organization announces its Spring Comedy Writing Intensive led by veteran television writer, director, and producer Brian Kahn. The first in-person class, “Late-Night TV Comedy Writing: Monologue Jokes,” drops students directly into a fast-paced, working writers’ room. …
Discover this intriguing and overlooked form of “AI.” Animal Intelligence is a new field opening our understanding of animal consciousness, interactions and our interconnections with the natural world. Join Pam McClusky, a senior curator at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), for an engaging presentation and conversation that highlights her research and how it led to …
by Molly Gilmore for OLY ARTS Choir director, composer, and teacher Terry Shaw has won a Governor’s Arts Award, to be presented Nov. 14. Shaw was named a Young Arts Leader, an award that recognizes his contributions to the arts and impact on the community. Shaw, who teaches wrestling and choral music at Timberline High …
OLY ARTS is very happy to be the print-media sponsor for Olympia’s Fall Arts Walk 2017. In 2017, Fall Arts Walk and Procession takes place on these days: Arts Walk – Friday Oct 6 (5 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Arts Walk – Saturday Oct 7 (noon – 5 p.m.) Jazz Walk – Saturday Oct 7 …
by Ned Hayes, publisher and Christian Carvajal, managing editor of OLY ARTS “The arts…are essential to the prosperity of the state and to the ornament and happiness of human life. They have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.” —George Washington We stand for art. Our publication is …
by Ned Hayes for OLY ARTS Capital City Pride Festival is June 15-17 in downtown Olympia, offering family-friendly events, live music throughout the weekend, a parade and a city-wide community gathering in celebration of gay, lesbian and transgender identity and solidarity. “The way that you respond to hate crimes is with love, and we have …