8th and I Neighbors Celebration
The 8th & I Neighbors organization is hosting a Community Celebration Saturday, October 20, at 11:00 a.m. on the 600 Block of South I Street.
They are celebrating the completion of the I Street Closure Project, which closed South I Street where it formerly intersected with Yakima. A pocket park now features a stunning landscape design and sculpture, entitled “Community”, by local artist, Scott Gruber.
The project has also opened new parking options for a community that is growing more dense.
3 comments
G grubedoo December 25, 2007
I am available as an installment if they have a greco-roman-gladiator-stud show or something.
C Crenshaw Sepulveda December 26, 2007
I’d like to thank Ms. Stebich for the sterling work she has done at the museum and the energy she brings to the arts community. More to the point, Ms. Stebich is interested in bringing art to all the people and not just the traditional patrons of the arts. Innovative programming like El Día de los Muertos has brought non-traditional museum visitors into the museum and has exposed the traditional patrons to the traditions of our Latino brethren, something near and dear to my heart. What I’d like Ms. Stebich to consider is the museum using the vacant lot in front of the museum facing Pacific and turn it into a public art park. A free form park of public art installations and possibly an alternative to the sterile and useless Tollefson Plaza that is not so far away. I think the public should take a crack at creating a usable public space in conjunction with the museum.
M Mofo from the Hood December 26, 2007
Stebich mentioned Warhol in reference to showing art placed on a historical continuum. I think Warhol’s biography is interesting because he started as a commercial artist. In that role before his major shift to fine artist, Warhol distinguished himself by developing a recognizable illustration technique for line drawing.
Warhol of the late 1950’s to 1960’s went from commercial artist to fine artist in an era when traditional subjects or themes were disposed of or mocked on a grand scale. And the production of that art was for the most part generated by highly coordinated mind to hand skills.
It might be argued that for the past couple of decades that the real shift in new image art production has gone from fine art to commercial art. Artworks produced with the use of technology such as telescopes, microscopes, cameras to capture images, plus computer generated images is really the vanguard of contemporary art.
This is the direction of art that I would like to see TAM acknowledge and inform the public with on a progressive continuum.