Barefoot in “Lemolo & the Kaleidoscope Dance”

Barefoot Collective along with MLK Ballet perform in “Lemolo & the Kaleidoscope Dance”

Three-time Spaceworks participant Barefoot Collective is part of an upcoming event we want you to know about!

The Warehouse Presents: Lemolo & The Kaleidoscope Dance 


A collaborative event featuring Lemolo playing their entire debut album “The Kaleidoscope” alongside choreographed performances from The BareFoot Collective and MLKBallet.  The event will take place Saturday, July 6, 8pm at Urban Grace, 902 Market Street, Tacoma, WA, 98402.  Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets.

Click here to learn more about the event

OPENING TONIGHT: Marilyn Bennett directs timeless comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”

“The Importance of Being Earnest” at the Lakewood Playhouse

Spaceworks alumni Marilyn Bennett, creator of Toyboat Theatre, is directing “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde.  The performance is presented by the Lakewood Playhouse, who indeed declares: 

“You are cordially invited to the sumptuously delicious, and extremely amusing event of the season.  A serious play for trivial people, full of mistaken identities, fine fashions, romance, great intellectual sparring… and lots… and lots… of tea.”

The show opens tonight, June 13th, at 8pm and runs through July 14th.  For a complete listing of showtimes and to purchase tickets visit the Lakewood Playhouse website (www.lakewoodplayhouse.org) or call 253-588-0042.

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Call for Artists – Special Artscapes Project

Chalk Walls at 11th and Market Streets

Spaceworks Tacoma and Downtown On The Go are seeking applications for a special Artscapes  project at 11th and Market in downtown Tacoma. Deadline to apply is June 25 at 5pm PST

If you have a creative idea of how to transform the side of the building in downtown Tacoma, please send us your ideas! The theme is transportation and the goal is to add to the livability of downtown Tacoma. Click here for guidelines, application checklist and a link to the online application.

We invite artist(s), artist teams and/or community groups to submit proposals to transform the current “Chalk Walls” into temporary 2-dimensional, site-specific installations (Artscapes) . The Artscapes will be up for a period of 6 months and the artist will assume maintenance of the installations.  This project offers a stipend of $2,000 total (for materials, artists’ time and maintenance) for all panels located on 11th and on Market Streets. Applicants can propose to create an Artscape on only one side of the building, i.e. 11th street OR Market Street, for a stipend of $1000 per street side.

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Grit City GrindHouse Grand Opening

Save the date!

Grit City GrindHouse Grand Opening
311 S. 7th St.
Friday, June 21, 2013 :: 7-10pm

http://gritcitygrindhouse.com/

The latest Spaceworks Tacoma Creative Enterprise is about to open its doors! The shop owners Taylor Woodruff & Robert Boyle and Spaceworks Tacoma invite you to the grand opening of Grit City GrindHouse on Friday June 21st. There will be music, pizza and the winners of the Sk8venger Hunt will be announced. I bet you are wondering what’s the Sk8venger Hunt?
 
Grit City Grindhouse is partnering with Go Skate Tacoma to host the Go Skate Tacoma Sk8venger Hunt. Riders will assemble into teams of 2 to 5 people and be sent out on a mission throughout Tacoma. Teams will be given the clues at the GrindHouse between 10am-noon. The earlier you get there, the more bonus clues will be spilled and you may just get a possibility of a head start! Teams will have until 5pm to get back to the shop with as many pictures of the solutions to the clues they found. Some great spots are lined up for clues along with some rad prizes. Get a team together, scrounge up five bucks between ya’ll, and come enjoy a day of raditude with Tacoma’s finest! Click here to learn more about the event.

Welcome Our Summer Intern Gabriel Brown

Please help us welcome Gabriel Brown as Spaceworks Tacoma’s Arts & Economic Development Intern! During his summer internship Brown will assist with marketing projects, storefront installations, as well as application processing and selection panels that will identify our next round of artists and entrepreneurs.

Brown is an artist, educator, and shoe cobbler born in Spokane, Washington 1982.  He holds an M.F.A. from Washington State University and served two years as an AmeriCorps VISTA.  As an artist, Brown has exhibited work at the Northwest Museum of Art & Culture, Mt. Hood Visual Art Center, Korea National University of the Arts, and throughout community centers, street corners, and public restrooms.

Click here to read more about Gabriel. 

Gabriel created an installation in Woolworth Window #2 in Spring 2011. Click here to read about it.

Special Project Residencies in Tacoma

Goldfinch’s Faded Explanations Vols. 1-3 album cover

Ever wondered, “What is a ‘Special Project Residency’”? It’s free temporary space to do any number of things:  Create a piece that is too big for your current studio;  Record your next album; Hold your non-profit’s next special event; the list goes on. Or maybe you are an artist who has thought of relocating to Tacoma. Bring your ideas and creativity and check it out for 6 months!

An example of a past Special Project Residency is the band Goldfinch. From January – March 2012, they were awarded a Spaceworks space where they wrote and arranged many of the songs that would become their latest full-length record entitled, Faded Explanations: Vols. 1 – 3. (The record is available at Bandcamp and is “name your price”. Click here to listen and download it.) 

A track of Spaceworks Tacoma, Special Project Residencies offer dedicated practicing artists, community groups and organizations the chance to pursue projects and develop work in any discipline for up to six months in a temporary space. Residencies are not open to the public, except for special events or open houses determined by Spaceworks and/or the participant(s). Accommodations are not provided and the spaces are available only for work. Participants are required to ‘bring the storefront window to life’ and have active public components that help connect with the community.

The online application is easy…submit 6 images, a resume, a budget, and answer 9 questions that address these aspects of your project:

Creative Enterprise in Tacoma

Do you have an idea for a creative business that benefits Tacoma’s community but do not currently have the resources to rent a space and develop a full-fledged business? Then you should apply to Spaceworks’ Creative Enterprise program!

Feather & Oar started as a Spaceworks Creative Enterprise in 2012 and now enjoys a bustling business in their leased space at 759 Market St.

Creative Enterprises are innovative small businesses (for-profit or non-profit), or any project that opens its doors to the public. Galleries, museums, art performances, boutiques, and retail shops are all great examples of Creative Enterprises. Artists, designers, crafters, consultants, organizations, community groups and other fledgling entrepreneurs are given the chance to test new products and services in a no- or low-cost temporary space for up to six months. But it’s not just about space, this program provides relevant and meaningful professional development and peer-to-peer support to the participants to systematically grow Tacoma’s creative class and generate destination quality activity that will engage and transform our community.

The online application is easy…submit 6 images, a resume, a budget, and answer 9 questions that address these aspects of your project:

Artscapes in Tacoma

Bed Dress by Jennifer Zwick currently on display in Woolworth Window #1

Have you always wanted to create an installation in the sought-after Woolworth Windows?  Or perhaps harbored an idea for a new media installation that would activate a downtown storefront …nurtured a hankering to create a mammoth painting on the side of a building…maybe even considered constructing a site-specific installation in a vacant outdoor space? Or maybe, just maybe, you have a new body of work you’d like to install in the display cases of the Old Post Office on A Street, seen by hundreds of people each day…well now is the time to make your musings a reality and apply to the Spaceworks Tacoma Artscapes program!

The online application is easy…submit 5-10 images of your past work, a resume, and answer these 2 questions:

One Week Left to Apply to Spaceworks

Rachael Dotson’s installation “Untitled” currently on display in Woolworth Window #2.

The deadline to apply to Spaceworks is coming up quick! All applications are due by June 10th at midnight. If you have a project to energize empty space in Tacoma we’d love to hear from you!

Participants of Spaceworks are provided space, exposure, and consultation in exchange for creatively activating vacant spaces. The goal is to transform empty storefronts and vacant spaces with creative energy and artistic enterprise, making Tacoma a stronger, more active city. We are seeking applications for all three Spaceworks tracks:

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Prints from Tacoma Wayzgoose 2013. Artists are: Ric Matthies, Chandler O’Leary & Jessica Spring, Charles Wright Academy Printmaking, Pacific Lutheran University Printmaking.

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