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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...