Art & Music news for this week:

Don't forget Thursday is artwalk!
Tacoma Art Museum is free all day, Glass museum and History museum are free 5-8 pm. urbanXchange will be open till 9.

While your in town check out these intriguing ART events:

The Helm Gallery:The Helm is pleased to present its first sound and sound-related drawing show, Doodle-ee Dee. Anchored by Garek Druss’ large sculpture Sound System, the show explores different relationships that exist between audio and visual stimuli. For Sound System, Druss recorded his habits in the painting studio and reconfigured them into a three hour composition that is amplified through a group of homemade speakers. French artists, Amelie Clavier and Gaelle Maas, interpret sound and music through vibrant, pop-influenced doodles. Marc Manning shows elaborate meditations on words and silence. Seattle-based sound artist Yann Novak will show Corrupt Media, Corrupt Data, a sculpture that explores the place of sound art in the marketplace and the point at which a work is given worth.

Accompanying the five artists will be a group of light-hearted sound experiments for viewers/listeners to take part in. The experiments will hopefully lead viewers toward a notion of their own unique relationship to sound.

The opening will take place from 5-10pm on Thursday, April 17th.

Fulcrum Gallery: Interactive neon art by Galen McCarty Turner at this new edgy independent gallery in Tacoma's renovating hilltop. Reception 6-9pm, Artist slide show and lecture, 7 p.m.



Artist cooperative show and reception with Photography by Chip VanGilder and poetry by Daniel Blue. Located next to the Grand Cinema 606 Fawcett Ave.


MUSIC this weekend:


Don't miss this amazing show featuring Mount Eerie (featuring Phil Elverum) on Friday April 18th at The Helm Gallery.





Free music show at urbanXchange Saturday April 19th, @ 7pm Featuring Travel by Channel and guests Headbangs & Makeup Monsters.1934 Pacific Ave. Free all ages.