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Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

Voronoff-the-Ghost-Critic — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:53:27 -0800

TACOMA NEEDS MORE ART who cares if it's in a high-end gallery or walking down the street, displayed in a wine bar or in a donut shop, installed on a street corner guerilla style or city-commissioned with a 1,000$ budget? ! More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

FunkomaVintage — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:47:25 -0800

I'm laaaate to this one.......as much as some people wish they could own art walk, it is now a common good.....It's been a fixture in artsy communities and wanna-be artsy communities for decades. True, some "member galleries" can organize and collect dues for something.....and that's all fine and dandy....that business model is fine, but it's not for everyone........and as far as any business that hangs art .....for sale or just for enjoyment IS an art gallery.......if you cut hair part time you ARE a hair salon....if that's how you represent and bring a bit of some seriousness/committment to it..............You can't own ART....the ART scene.....is The Commons in the pre-capitalism sense..................geez, you old people can be soooo tiresome with your ownership society...... More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

izenmania — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:58:43 -0800

That's fair. Transportation issues aside, I still think that on any given day most people would only be inclined to go to one, and haven't seen any disadvantage expressed as regards holding them on different nights, other than the fact that the phrase "Third Thursday" is in people's heads. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

jacksonscott — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:37:30 -0800

With respect to Izenmania (the walker) what I've noticed is that many, many (most) people who attend artwalk in the winter simply DON'T walk between all the galleries. Granted, even downtown's galleries are fairly spread out, and the weather does not make it as comfrotable to walk around for hours at a time as say, Santa Cruz, Ca. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

izenmania — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:21:13 -0800

They can coexist if they want, I just disagree with the notion that they would attract a different crowd. The point of the Artwalk is to get people from OTHER neighborhoods to come down. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

Skydiving Agent — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:40:53 -0800

Why should it have to be on a different night? I thought 3rd Thursday was the traditional art walk night everywhere (or am I misinformed? More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

jacksonscott — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:02:34 -0800

The problem with starting our own artwalk is that there's only one gallery on 6th Ave now. However, there's lots of outlets for culinary and musical arts. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

izenmania — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:59:40 -0800

I definitely agree that if something like this happens on 6th Ave., it ought to be on a different night. Both areas are perfectly walkable on their own, but not really in conjunction. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

intacoma — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:13:59 -0800

dont feel excluded, piggyback on it, why not rally up 6thave places and start up something new More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

scout — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:25:04 -0800

I don't think it's about the businesses, it is about what is considered an actual art gallery. For awhile any business that had a few pieces of art up on the wall was calling itself an art gallery and getting publicity, which sort of bugged the tradtional galleries, who actually pay a quarterly/yearly fee to belong to the group. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

thriceallamerican — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:08:05 -0800

I'm thinking that it would inject some bad inter-business-district juju into the mix of Sixth Ave were to go directly head-to-head with downtown on 3rd Thursdays, but as long as it's on a different night, I think this could be really successful. I know for a fact that Sixth Ave is big on being the "eclectic, artsy" district, to the extent that the merchants group has an arts coordinator. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

KevinFreitas — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:22:19 -0800

I'm with Erik. Best part is that 6th Ave is even more walkable than downtown. More »

Re: Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

Erik — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:07:26 -0800

Why not start your own art walk on 6th avenue party? More »

Art & Culture | Excluded from 3rd-thurs artwalk

jacksonscott — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:46:53 -0800

I love Thursday night artwalk, but does anyone else find it odd that it is only open to downtown businesses? As of very recently, I work for a great kind of new gallery on 6th Ave. More »