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We Art Tacoma
by Channel 253
We Art Tacoma is part of the Channel 253 network. We connect you to the artists who are making great art in Tacoma. You might hear from a painter, actor, musician, slam poet, dancer, or opera singer.
Episodes
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Community champion dindria barrow and the collective power of storytelling
Jamika and Katy are back in the host chairs, excited to learn from dindria of the Tacoma Public Library’s Community Archives Center. dindria and the Tacoma Public Library team are collecting stories and oral histories...
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“The Tacoma Method” | A special “Off the Record” with Gregory Youtz
The “Off the Record” podcast is normally available exclusively for Channel 253 members. But this was a special enough episode we wanted to publish it widely. If you appreciate this interview with Gregory Youtz about...
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Reimagining the Museum with Eden Redmond: Why the Tacoma Art Museum Staff is Unionizing
Eden Redmond is the Institutional Giving Manager and one of the representatives of TAM WU: Tacoma Arts Museum Workers United. She graciously educates the We Art Tacoma team on the importance of union recognition and...
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The Beauty of Grit City Magazine with Sierra Hartman
Jamika and Katy talk with Grit City Magazine publisher and writer Sierra Hartman. Sierra and his publishing partner Sara Kay received the Amocat Art Award for Arts Patron. Sierra shares the trials and joys of...
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Amocat award winner and author Tamiko Nimura waxes rhapsodic
Jamika and Katy talk with author and community builder Tamiko Nimura about her well-earned Amocat Art Award for Community Outreach by an Individual. We explore her incredible literary and historical work, and “wax rhapsodic”! Listen...
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Go to REAL ART Tacoma: interview with all-ages music advocate Tom Long
Jamika and guest host Hannah Devine interview community-builder and all-ages music advocate Tom Long! Tom Long represents Real Art Tacoma, the Amocat Award Winner for Community Outreach by an Organization. Tom is the president of...
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We ART Tacoma Arts Month!
Jamika and Katy sit down with the incredible Chevi Chung – actor, director, and Community Programs Specialist at the Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality for the City of Tacoma – to learn what we...
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Part 2 with Writer Nakanee Monique: Worldbuilding and Finding Community
We jump back in with Nakanee Monique and they kick us off with a reading of part 2 of her epic poem Listen. Take some time to read the full poem, included below. Tacoma-based writer...
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Poet Nakanee Monique and the art of activism – part 1
The first of a two-part series, Jamika and Katy talk with Tacoma-based writer and activist Nakanee Monique about her art and activism. Nakanee (she/they) has been writing poetry since they were 8 years old and...
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Art, Death, and Grief
Jamika and Katy turn to the art of the essay for healing, processing, and metabolizing grief, as our community and country faces compounding trauma and tragedy. “Joy is not the opposite of grief. Grief is...
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Local arts hero Amy McBride!
Jamika and Katy get together with elder-in-training Amy McBride: City of Tacoma Arts Administrator, artist, creatrix, mystic, and witch! Amy shares her experiences from over 20 years in arts administration and creative community building, and what...
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New hosts, who’s this?
We Art Tacoma is back, baby, with some fresh new hosts! It’s Jamika and Katy, at your cultural service! Jamika Scott and Katy Evans are delighted to take the helm as “art super fans.” In...
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Kim Davenport—Tacoma Booster Songs
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Tacoma marketed itself in a variety of ways, including song. Several songs, such as “You’ll Like Tacoma,” and “Watch Tacoma Grow,” were aimed to be catchy jingles for...
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Rosemary Ponnekanti—Tacoma Light Trail
This episode, Rosemary Ponnekanti is back for a record third time in 2020 to talk about a new project—Tacoma Light Trail, a festival/walk/driving tour of light centered around downtown Tacoma. From Wright Park to Dock...
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Michael Liang—Spaceworks Tacoma
Michael. Liang of Spaceworks Tacoma is back on the podcast to talk about what’s happening with Tacoma’s artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs. He also shares some resources for shopping local this holiday season. Enjoy! Links Spaceworks...
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David Fischer—Tacoma Arts Live
David Fischer, Executive Director of Tacoma Arts Live, joins the podcast to talk about how TAL has been navigating the pandemic, virtual shows (such as The Muse Hour with Karamo Brown on Saturday October 17)...
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David Setford, Tacoma Art Museum
David Setford, Executive Director of Tacoma Art Museum, joins the podcast to talk about reopening plans at TAM on October 9 and what he sees going forward at museums in general. Tacoma Art Museum will...
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Rosemary Ponnekanti and Dakota Camacho—Tacoma Ocean Fest
Two guests join the podcast today to talk about Tacoma Ocean Fest. Executive Director Rosemary Ponnekanti talks about the origins of Tacoma Ocean Fest’s unique blend of art and science. She also shares how the...
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Dr. Kimberly Keith—Hilltop Artists
Dr. Kimberly Keith joins the podcast to talk about Hilltop Artists, which teaches youth to blow glass and a whole lot more. The organization was recently honored as the Washington State Organization of the Year....
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Philip Cowan—Grand Cinema
The doors to the Grand Cinema have been closed since March, but that doesn’t mean everything has stopped. Executive Director Philip Cowan talks about how you can stream new movies through the Grand, their online...
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Christina Butcher—Blue Cactus Press
Christina Butcher is the founder of Blue Cactus Press, a small Tacoma-based press that focuses on poetry, fiction, and essays. She shares how she ventured into Tacoma’s literary and books arts scene to create books...
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Jackie Casella and Jonny Eberle—Creative Colloquy (Virtual Edition)
Creative Colloquy has been going strong for six years now with regular events for writers of all sorts. During the pandemic, they’ve adapted to virtual hangouts every Monday night at 7:00. Jackie Casella and Jonny...
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Michelle Matlock—Circle Up
Michelle Matlock is originally from Tacoma, but her career took her far. She wrote, acted, and produced her own shows in New York. She learned clowning and circus arts and eventually created a character for...
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Ingrid Barrentine—Photographer
Ingrid Barrentine joins the podcast to talk about her photography. She got the photo-bug at 19 as a hobbyist and managed to create a professional career as a photographer. For Channel 253 this week, she...
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Amy McBride—Tacoma arts during a pandemic
Amy McBride, of the City of Tacoma’s Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality, joins the podcast to talk about how arts organizations and artists are doing in Tacoma during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of...
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Tamiko Nimura—Writer and Biographer of Senator Rosa Franklin
Writer Tamiko Nimura joins the podcast today to talk about her life as a writer, writing the biography of State Senator Rosa Franklin, the first African-American woman to serve in the Washington State Senate. We...
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Steve Naccarato and John James—You’ll Love Tacoma
The You’ll Heart Tacoma sign has been making the rounds around Tacoma. It’s a mashup of the classic You’ll Like Tacoma sign from 1909 and the new 253 Heart. On this episode we dig into...
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The cast and director of Oleanna at Tacoma Arts Live
The cast and director of Oleanna join the podcast to talk about the new show at Tacoma Arts Live. The play reinvestigates a script from thirty years ago that tells the story of sexual harassment...
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Chase Hutchinson and Andrew Hammond—Previewing the 2020 Oscars
Once a year, the We Art Tacoma podcast geeks out on movies. This year’s guests are Chase Hutchinson and Andrew Hammond. Chase writes for The News Tribune on film and other topics. Andrew is a...
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Rosemary Ponnekanti on art criticism in Tacoma
Artist Lisa Kinoshita kicked off an important discussion on Facebook when she wrote, TACOMA (POP. 213,418) NEEDS AN ARTS CRITIC.” And what a dialog ensured! I sat down with Rosemary Ponnekanti, the last full-time art...
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David Fischer—First Night
David Fischer, Executive Director of Tacoma Arts Live, sits down to look back at the year in Tacoma arts and then look ahead to First Night! First Night buttons are $14 through December 30 and...
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Sara Kay and Sierra Hartman—Grit City Magazine
Sara Kay and Sierra Hartman talk about Grit City Magazine, the independent magazine that “believes Tacoma has good stories.” Sarah and Sierra have been behind the magazine since it was founded in 2017. The produce...
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Umi Wagoner—ETC Tacoma
After graduating Foss High School, Umi went to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. When he returned to Tacoma, he co-founded the store ETC Tacoma and the etcetera line of streetwear....
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John Falskow—Tuba Christmas (and more)
John Falskow, music professor at Tacoma Community College, joins the show to talk about a series of holiday (and not-holiday) shows around Tacoma, including the free TCC Orchestra concert and a fun event called “Tuba...
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Singer Songwriter Paige Hansen
Singer songwriter Paige Hansen joins the podcast to talk about her musical background as a singer songwriter, her time as a jazz DJ at KNKX, and more. Links Paige Hansen on Facebook Paige Hansen on...
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Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn—Beautiful Angle
Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn have been behind the guerilla art project “Beautiful Angle” since the early 2000s. I was glad for the chance to talk to them more about their project, the origins of...
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Klair Ethridge and Pam Bridges—TUPAC
What is TUPAC? (By which we mean the Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center and not the rapper). TUPAC help kids who are racially and socioeconomically diverse get access to classical art forms like ballet. An...
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Victoria Ashley—Shakespeare in Love at Tacoma Arts Live
Victoria Ashley joins the podcast to talk about her work as an actor as well as the upcoming show “Shakespeare in Love” opening this weekend at Tacoma Arts Live. The play is based on the...
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Silong Chhun
Silong Chhun is a man of many artistic talents—music, audio, graphic design, film. He’s also a booster of Tacoma arts, having recently served on the Tacoma Arts Commission. Check out the new episode! Links Silong...
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Melinda Raebyne and David Dinnell—Tacoma Film Festival
For this week’s episode, Melinda Raebyne and David Dinnell sit down to talk about film in Tacoma and the upcoming Tacoma Film Festival (October 3 – 10). Melinda’s new film is Stories of Us: Camp...
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Rosie Cheex and Ava D Jor—Gritty City Sirens
The Gritty City Sirens burlesque troupe likes to say that they put the T and A in Tacoma. Two performers, Rosie Cheex and Ava D Jor, share their story about how they got into burlesque,...
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Michael Haeflinger—Low Static Rage
Poet Michael Haeflinger joins the podcast to talk about the nonprofit Write 253 and his new book of poems Low Static Rage. At the end of the poem, he reads a poem from it about...
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Should we put the Andy Warhol Flower on the Tacoma Dome?
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol submitted a piece of art to the City of Tacoma. It would make the roof of the building a giant flower. It wasn’t a winning entry, but the idea...
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Preston Singletary—Raven and the Box of Daylight at Museum of Glass
This week’s episode of We Art Tacoma is with Native American glass artist Preston Singletary, who has an exhibit called Raven and the Box of Daylight at the Museum of Glass. Preston is a legend...
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Kareem Kandi—The Kareem Kandi World Orchestra
Kareem Kandi joins the show to talk about his life in jazz music. From teaching 40 music lessons a week to performing to teaching to managing a nonprofit, Kareem has his hands full. Links The...
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Dan Friday—In the Spirit Northwest Native Festival
Dan Friday comes on the podcast today to talk about his glass art and the Saturday August 10 “In the Spirit” Northwest Native Festival. Dan’s glass piece Full Circle Totem won the “Spirit of the...
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Kim Archer—musician, producer, and much more
The delightful Kim Archer joins the podcast this week to talk about how music brought her to Tacoma, the concert series she helps produce every summer, and her new work. Enjoy! Links Kim Archer Old...
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Matt Vancil—JourneyQuest and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
Did you know there’s a local film production company in Tacoma called Zombie Orpheus? And that the team behind it has been making movies and web series here since 2002? And that they just raised...
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Bill Heeter—Bart at TAM
Bill Heeter is a collector of animation cels from The Simpsons. These hand-drawn cels are put together for the public for at Tacoma Art Museum for the first Simpsons animation exhibit in the US! On...
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Nicole Rathburn—Public Art at Dune Peninsula
Nicole Rathburn is the artist hired to create public art based on the novel Dune by Tacoma native Frank Herbert. She talks about what it was like to create a sculpture based on the book...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We Art Tacoma is part of the Channel 253 network. We connect you to the artists who are making great art in Tacoma. You might hear from a painter, actor, musician, slam poet, dancer, or opera singer.
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We Art Tacoma is part of the Channel 253 network. We connect you to the artists who are making great art in Tacoma. You might hear from a painter, actor, musician, slam poet, dancer, or opera singer.
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