By Katherine Bussey At the opening for “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015”, spectators shared heat and energy, engaging between objects of art and music while celebrating decades of dynamic creativity. A new generation of artists are also being celebrated as they break ground by confronting obsolete social […]
Sensations that Announce to FutureAt The Evergreen Art Gallery
By Jules Prosser I am sitting on a couch with a glowing blue light beneath it, eating an orange I took from a giant handmade clamshell. Boards painted in bright, warm colors surround me on two sides. I’ve been told that the place I am in is a spaceship of sorts, […]
Gallery HighlightsFall Arts Walk
By Jules Prosser Arts Walk weekend is one of the few times Olympia feels like a real city. One ventures downtown to find the streets awash with people, men selling big sticks on the sidewalk, and musicians performing in what could be mistaken for Pearl Jam cover bands. The few […]
Olympia People’s MicWeekly Open-Mic Offers A Voice To The Community
Last Thursday evening I ventured to the back room of Ben Moore’s Restaurant in Downtown Olympia. Past the dining tables was a hidden stage, paintings framed against brick-red walls, and a playlist of classic songs providing a laidback atmosphere. In front of neat rows of chairs stood the spotlight. I […]
Media Island ShowFall Arts Walk
By Bryel Fyfe During my first year in Olympia, I had the misfortune of living on campus. This, mixed with a newborn noesis of my current location, made getting my ass to a show an endeavor, sometimes a drunken misadventure. However, as someone who now very conveniently lives downtown, I […]
Horoscopes
By Y Lowi ARIES 3/21 – 4/19 Maybe it’s the cool Autumn air, or all the interesting new people you’ve just met, but something about this week makes you want to party! Aries, it’s time to have fun and shed your sad, old skin. This is the week to pull […]
An interview with Aeon Fux
By Amber Hare I recently got the chance to sit down with one of my favorite local musicians and talk about bugs, production processes and their new mixtape. They’ve recently been written about in Vice and The Stranger and their music has been reposted countless times on blogs throughout the […]
ARTIST INTERVIEW: Patrick Semple
By Ruby Love Patrick Semple is an artist working primarily with oils on canvas, pulling from the natural environments around him to create works that fuse memory, emotion, and place. While Patrick Semple’s interest in art is not new, his interest in painting-specifically oil painting-is a fairly recent development. Inspired […]
Kate Laster Cover Artist
By Jules Prosser Kate Laster is a visual artist and poet hailing from Alaska. She attended the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, transferring to Evergreen for her last year. She works in many mediums, including drawing, relief printing, and comics. When you first arrived in Olympia, what were your attitudes […]
O Week Horoscopes: For September 23—October 7
By Y Lowy Aries (3/21—4/19) Autumn is coming and you’ve been waiting for it. You remember the trees, the crunch of fallen leaves. You remember and you’ve want it for so long… Aries, turn off your computer. Sometimes you wait so earnestly for something, you don’t notice when […]
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