No matter what kind of weather and temperatures are playing on the outdoor stage in Puget Sound country, the wide open spacious halls and galleries at Tacoma Art Museum can always be called upon to lift those members of the community who harbor an artistic spirit.
Last Thursday night, TAM put on it's party hat and hosted this year's Art At Work Month kick-off celebration in the main lobby. The annual month-long and much-looked forward to festival salutes the deep and rich bank of homegrown talent, resources and time-honored well-spring of innovative conception, development and creativity within the City of Tacoma and surrounding Pierce County.
It is ably executed each year to showcase and honor art organizations, sponsors, volunteers, organizers, participants, long-time patrons, newly emerging artists and public fans which provide not only a delightful series of wonderful sights, performances and shows but also provides a strong foundation and ongoing support to the overall health and well-being of the extended public.
Individuals attending this year's kick-off at Tacoma Art Museum were not only treated to colorful buffets of snacks, refreshments and live entertainment, but a generous opportunity to quietly peruse and personally examine both spacious galleries and seasonal highlights like the profuse explosion of handbuilt altars and exhibits on the upper floor of the museum showcasing Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead).
Below: Photos below include snapshots taken of guests at the kick-off party and views of just a handful of the highly moving, clever and heartfelt colorful and hand crafted memorials and constructions overflowing with a virtual abundance of warm memories and fond remembrances of friends, family and other loved ones no longer able to be physically present with us. TAM's Dia de Los Muertos, the sixth annual partnership with Centro Latino, is capped tomorrow with a free community festival at the museum from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Photos copyright 2010 by Mizu Sugimura.
Lucky individuals attending this year's kick-off at Tacoma Art Museum were not only treated to colorful buffets of snacks, refreshments and live entertainment, but a generous opportunity to quietly peruse and personally examine both spacious galleries and seasonal highlights like the profuse explosion of handbuilt altars and exhibits on the upper floor of the museum showcasing Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead).
For relative novices on the local Tacoma arts scene, Art at Work Month provides an excellent introduction to the levels of energy and creativity which continue to propel the growing name. respect and reputation the city and Pierce County are building in the overall state, regional and national arts communities. More importantly this kind of event elicits the kind of ongoing positive vibrations that both visual and performance artistic worlds are well equipped to recognize, welcome and continually attract, nurture, capture and sustain gifted, resourceful and like-minded men and women from around the globe into the region.
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