Didn't get it, ah well. the show i wrote it for is mostly down except for this part that vera left up http://toryfranklin.com/fairytalefabrications/briar/beauty/82.html

I also have an installation that went up the beginning of the year. It's at 505 s 5th in the courtyard. It's a window installation
http://toryfranklin.com/fairytalefabrications/storefronts.html

Mainly do drawing and print installation work, but I use a lot of different media

I can get you contact info. can you email me offline? michiko@swiggs.com

Do you know if they have a website or booking contact info?

nor did I...

I may have misunderstood a bit. I know of no size specific definition distinguishing an arena from a stadium. In sports parlance football and baseball are always played in a stadium while basketball and hockey are always played in an arena or, in the case of amateur scholastic sports, a field or a gym.

Am I right in remembering that when Madonna came to town ages ago, she had to add dates because the Kingdome couldn't hold all the rabid fans here in the NW?

Thank you for the clarification. Seems like there are many differences - I had no idea.

Not to be too persnickity, but I'd say it's fundamentally a money thing. There's a progression. garage to house party to crappy club to decent club to venue to big venue to arena to stadium with various grades of stage in between... Madonna is in her own micro-category, of course.

Both are large flat areas surrounded by spectator seating. Although the development of the domed/retractable roofed stadium has greyed the area a bit, generally an arena is enclosed and a stadium is roofless.

The concept of the stadium developed in ancient Greece as a unit of measurement, about 200m- the length of the foot-race at the olde timey olympics, as well as the place where the olde timey olympics wrer held.
The idea of the stadium continued into the Roman empire as both a unit of measurement and a place where foot-races (and the occasional chariot race, lacking an available circus) were held.
Currently in the US a stadium is a place where football and baseball are played and watched.
Stadium can also refer to a vaguely fixed length of time such as the period insects spend in stasis between metamorphosis.

Arena is derived from the word herena AKA sand, due to the sand that was used as a floor in arenas to soak up the blood from the gladitorial blood-sports ancient romans were so fond of. yay!
Nowadays, here in the US, arenas are places where people play, and watch people playing, basketball and hockey.
An arena is also a conceptual space in which social conflict occurs, e.g., a political arena.

I like the nickname. I don't like the full name, although it's better than the ESA ugh. Tx.

You think Century Link is bad? I don't know a single person in Utah who calls the Delta Center "EnergySolutions Arena" ... and it hasn't been the Delta Center for probably 5-7 years now.

At least we get a good nickname like The Clink.

Also, to answer your question, The Clink = a stadium, The Gorge/White River = an arena. I think... could be wrong :)

Thanks. So it's purely a size thing rather than a shape thing.

keshmeshi has the answer.

I looked for more on the story and found these from August 2010:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/inpioneersquare/2010/08/12/undercover-sting-operation-conducted-at-first-thursdays-art-walk/

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/08/12/liquor-control-board-cracks-down-on-art-galleries

Haha. Uh, I guess it shows how much time I've spent at SAM and area galleries? I saw the Dan Webb piece while it was still at Greg Kucera's gallery -- I visited it several times there because I found it so profoundly haunting.

I was *thrilled* when I saw that SAM had acquired it. It really is one of my favorite pieces in all of Seattle.

OMG thank you! I was indeed thinking of the Dan Webb sculpture. Pretty great guesswork given my inaccurate recollection. For some reason I was thinking "woman with hijab" instead of "Abu Ghraib victim," and I said "translucent" when I meant "moiré effect."

Really, thanks a million. Nice to know it's in the permanent collection.

cool cool cool.
fyi, I am one who has had over seven applications declined over the course of the grant program. there are many who apply, and painting and sculpture are only a fraction of the 'disciplines' where granting activity takes place. the foundation encourages those not favored to try to improve and reapply.

outside of that, artists in real life establish reputations where they live and work, creating relationships during the course of their career with people who share experiences with them. the double-blind computer oriented decision-making process makes me personally feel disconnected. I would like to improve relationships between the art communities of two important NW states.

Thank you for offering your perspective and suggestions, fran

In googling rasumson foundation individual artist grant panel I found the names of a few former members, who tend to put something like that on their resume. They all appear to be fully-qualified experts in their field. I don't think it necessarily matters whether they visit Anchorage or not. The grants are based on applications; if the work you submit in your app is good enough, you're in. It doesn't matter what work you do elsewhere.

thanks for your reply. I get the notion from their correspondence with grant applicants.
I just wonder how people who don't host contemporary alaskan artists at exhibitions nor visit anchorage to promote seattle artists would know anything about artist applicants to the RF. Maybe you know of connections I am unaware of. The Stonington originated here, it is true, and we have had curators from the Frye and SAM perform remote selections for our local museum's semi-annual shows of local art.

Thanks again for engaging.

Oh, I think we have a winner! You shoulda answered this separately rather than as a comment on mine, because then you could get your mushroom!

A couple of members of IMPB were in a band called Finn McCoul, and they made a CD with piping, fiddling and some great singing along with ukulele. You can get in touch with them through the IMPB website, Cary Ritt was the guitarist.

They're called "The Isle of Maui Pipe Band", of course! They don't appear to have any CDs, though there are some Youtube clips.

http://www.isleofmauipipeband.com/

Thanks for the reply. It was at some club in Maui, and, frankly, she doesn't know if it was "hawai'ian music". Not much to go on, I know. Do you know the name of the Scottish pipe band?

thanks whiskeypony.

Ok, I guess I might deserve that one. But it's been several years now. I'm serious, why have they not picked up their carreers by now?
Also, I was thinking the same thing about the Righteous Brothers. One died of a heart attack on the concert circuit, but I'm pretty sure the other one sang in duet with someone "Up Where we Belong" for the theme from "Top Gun"...or was it "Officer and a Gentlemen"? or was it in Dirty Dancing, "Time of My Life"?

Thanks for your input! We have a painting by him currently and I was looking for something in May. I was able to get a hold of him and we are now working out the details.

And here I was just going to answer "Very Carefully..." LOL!