Glimpse at the Upcoming Woolworth Installations

Spaceworks is getting very excited for the next round of Artscapes installations going up in the Woolworth windows.  The projects will debut on New Year’s Eve, we hope to see you out at the First Night celebration!

Here’s a sneak peak at what is to come:

Repurposed instruments, colorful paintings, and whimsical constructions will make up "Music Box"
Repurposed instruments, colorful paintings, and whimsical constructions will make up “Music Box”

Becky Frehse / Music Box
11th & Broadway
Woolworth Windows #4 & 5
December 31 – April 17, 2014 
Becky Frehse presents the very colorful “Music Box,” composed of mixed media paintings and constructions using repurposed musical instruments including a piano, guitar, several violins and a Chinese yue qin.  Forrest Rumbaugh from Northwest Staging and Sound is collaborating with Becky to provide theatrical spot lighting with timers to animate the installation.

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Own your nightmare, play with spiders!
Own your nightmare, play with spiders!

Acataphasia Grey / Own the Nightmare
11th & Commerce
Woolworth Window #1
December 31 – April 17, 2014 
Acataphasia Grey, creator of phantasmagoria, was featured earlier this year on the AMC reality show “Immortalized” about the art of taxidermy.  For this exhibition she brings us an installation titled “Own the Nightmare” in which she states “Nightmares are bad, everyone knows that… but what if that was never the truth? On the other side of a belief thinner than a sheet of paper is an entirely different perspective.”

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20 Year Retrospective of RAGS
20 Year Retrospective of RAGS

RAGS Guild / 20 Year Retrospective of RAGS
11th & Broadway
Woolworth Windows #2 & 3
December 31 – April 17, 2014 
Taking over two of the largest windows will be the “20 Year Retrospective of RAGS” including a gallery of work from 30 artists.  RAGS is an annual wearable art sale & show where all proceeds go to benefit domestic violence programs at the YWCA-Pierce County.  Spaceworks if proud to help promote the RAGS Guild artists and their important mission as they approach the 20th Annual RAGS show coming up this March 2014!

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