This weekend was Showcase Tacoma, a celebration of the arts that stretched from the Museum of Glass up into the UWTacoma campus. I was down there on Sunday and bit early, so it was just getting going (and winding down). Great chalk art from the students at the
School of the Arts Tacoma (that's SOTA to those in the know), a mobile hot shop blowing glass from
M-Space, posters from
Beautiful Angle, potters, muralists, music, film, improv, a little bit of everything. This is the first year for Showcase and I expect it will become a central summer event for Tacoma.
A few pics to set the scene.
Beautiful Angle posters that adapt a Warhol flower originally proposed for the Tacoma Doma exterior.
Chalk art
Convention Center and Pacific Plaza
The now defunct rail line that cuts through UWT. This line was severed only in the last couple of years when light rail crossed its tracks. For the first few years of UWT at this location trains would occasionally roar right through campus, which was pretty cool.
