Tom Llewellyn
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When Hearing Fails, Listen with Your Eyes
The complex art of interpreting theatre for deaf audiences
Photo by Peter Mumford
It’s a Sunday afternoon performance at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The play is The Three Musketeers, so the audience swarms with families. People mill around the...
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Grace and Hustle
Questions and Answers about Tacoma’s New Poet Laureate
Illustration by Demian Johnston for City Arts
Tacoma can now make this unwieldy but proud claim: it is the first midsized municipality north of San Francisco and west of Denver to recognize...
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Ed’s Collection
It’s practically a living scrapbook of the Northwest that one dedicated and determined professional packrat has assembled for the Washington State Historical Society to benefit posterity.
Meet Ed Nolan, a trim, white-haired, fourth-generation...
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A Hero’s Journey
Photo by Jennifer Richard
On art versus craft and the struggle to remain solvent in unforgiving times. The true story of Chris Sharp as never told before.
Side one. Chris Sharp is looking for a day job. Certain upstanding Tacoma citizens even wrote...
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Complex Comforts
For fiber artist Toot Reid, life and work hang together by a thread.
There’s no pattern here. Full on for the last fifteen years, Tacoma fiber artist Toot Reid has been making abstract art, one tiny piece at a time. She’s had shows at the...