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I THE NEWS TRIBUNE E4 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 students 8-18 years old; call or go online for information; 360-943-2744, www. capitalplayhouse.com. LAKEWOOD PLAYHOUSE YOUTH THEATER offered year round for ages 5-18 years old, featuring day camps, workshops and performing experiences; audrBons for "The Hobbit" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," noon-4 pin. Oct. call for detals; 253-588-0042.

PIERCE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION beginning drama class, ages 9-16 years old, 10-week program beginning Oct. 1, Lakewood Community Center, 9112 Lakewood Drive S.W., Lakewood; preregistration required; $65; 253-798-4177 SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS no partner required, soft-soled shoes recommended, pm. Oct. 12, 19, Nov. 9, 16, Dec.

14, Normanna Hall, T106 S. 15th St, Tacoma; per lesson; 253-588-8902. SPOTLIGHT PLAYERS workshops on improvisational techniques, first and third Mondays, Korum's Puyallup Nissan, Valley Avenue and North Meridian, Puyallup; free; 253-568-6465. WRITERS' WEEKEND by Held End writers' community, workshop with Donald Maass and Lisa Rector-Maass, Oct. 13-14, Ban bridge Pavilion Cinemas and Bainbridge Public Library, Banbridge Island; wwwfietdsendjorg.

ART AND FILM WORKSHOPSCLASSES ADULT DRAWING CLASS six week dass Wednesdays Oct. K)-Nov. 14, Pierce County Parks and Recreation, Meridan Habitat Park, 14422 Meridian Puyallup; call for irrformation; 253-841-8515. GLASS-BLOWING CLASSES introductory six-week dasses: 6-10 pin. Oct.

2-Nov. 4-8 pm Oct. 7-Nov. 11; $575 includes all supplies; Tacoma Glassbtowing Studio, MS. 23rd St, Tacoma; $225; 253-383-3499, www.

tacomaglassblowing.com. GLASS-BLOWING CLASSES Glass float blowing, 330-730 pm Nov. 10, Dec. $42; Glassbtowing Introduction, pm Saturdays Oct. 6-27; $395; Intermedate Glassbtowing, 6-10 pm.

Tuesdays Oct. 23-Nov. 13; $395; M-Space, 2514 S. Holgate Tacoma; 253-779-0101. MANfTOU ART CENTER CLASSES Chldren and day, must be accompanied by adults to start, noon Saturdays, $55 per month includes tools, supplies, glazes, firing, 253-471-1312; studk) space for potters, monthly fee covers wheels, firing and studio time, Manitou Art Center, 4802 S.

66th Tacoma; $65; 253-584-3605 For i complete Ufttog of art! rante, go onltaff to wwwttiiiiswitriMncxoffl ARTS CALENDAR AUDITIONS. PARTICIPATION ARTWORKS BALLET open auditions for dancers at beginning through advanced levels, 10-1130 am Saturdays, Capitol City Ballet School. 1802 State Ave. Nf, Otyrnpia; 360-357-3352. EVERGREEN OTY BALLET auditions for piano accompanists for dasses; call for information; 425-228-6800.

GK HARBOR PENINSULA CMC ORCHESTRA seeks adult musicians, no audition necessary, rehearsals 7-9 pm "Thursdays, Peninsula High School band room, 14105 Purdy Drive N.W, Gig Harbor; 253-857-4440, wwwghpcorchestricom. LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA seeks musicians, especially strings, no audtfons, must be able to read music and have several years experience, high school music complexity level, 7-9 pm Mondays, Ljockbum Midde School, 5431 Steilacoom Blvd. S.W, Lakewood; 253-840-1026. MUSK AT TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Bands and choirs seek local community and student musicians, 6501 S. 19th St, Tacoma; 253-460-4374.

NEW HORIZONS BAND designed for adult beginners, "rusty" musicians or players wanting to try a new instrument, 1-3 pm Thursdays, Ted Brown Music, 6228 Tacoma Mall Blvd, Tacoma; advanced band is looking for trumpet players; 253-272-3211. RENTON CMC THEATRE auditions for The Lion in Winter," looking for five men and two women, bring prepared monologue, head shot and resume, 4-7 pm Oct 6, 6-9 pm Oct 7, 507 S. Third St, Renton; call for appointment 425-226-5529. TCC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA has openings in viola, cello, bass and trombone; for information, contact John Falskow; 253-460-4374, jfalskow9tacomacc.edu. CALL TO ARTISTS ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER The International Artist Exchange Program, a juried exhfcit seeks two-dmensional artwork not to exceed 25 inches unmatted, accepted artists are eligible for 17-day cultural exchange and tour of China and Korea leaving Oct.

15; $40 entry fee for two images, $2,950 tour per person, double occupancy; 253-226-2742, 206-335-8816, psurhoc9comcast.net, asie6comcastnet DANCE THEATRE NORTHWEST experienced dancers with classical training needed for upcoming performances of "Nutcracker" and community holiday performances; call for application; 253-565-5149. DASH CENTER FOR THE ARTS seeks instructors; for information, contact Candi Hall, 253-572-3274. KENT PARKS HOUDAY BAZAAR accepting applications from artists and crafts vendors for Nov. 30-Dec. 1 event Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave.

Kent wwwJcerrtarticom, 253-856-5050. LAKEWOOD HOUDAY CRAFT FAIR seeks vendors; booth fee $40; applications accepted through Nov. 8, call for information; 253-589-2489. MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL seeks vendors for Dec. 8 Mustang Merry Holiday Bazaar proceeds benefit school ASB fund; call for information or application; 253-583-544a OKTOBERFEST WESTERN JURIED SHOW seeks artists in all fine art mediums, for prospectus send a SASE to PO Box 454, Puyallup, WA 98371; 253-926-0329.

ORTING PUMPKIN FEST seeks first- to third-grade students to participate in the Little Pumpkin Pals Parade, Oct. 13-14; call for information; 253-682-1446. PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY BOUTIQUE accepts applications for juried arts and crafts show, Nov. 17; call for information; 253-531-7481. PASTATALES MOB CHLDREWS ESSAY CONTEST sponsored by Olive Garden, grand prize is trip to New York City, $2,500 savings bond; entry forms and complete rules available starting Oct.

1 at Olive Garden restaurants or online at wvw.otivegarden.comcompany communrtypastajalesasp. SEEKING PUBLISHED AUTHORS for book-signing event noon-4 pm Nov. 17, Meeker Mansion, Puyallup; 253-845-4502. SENIOR JURIED ART SHOW calls for local senior artist submissions for Franke Tobey Jones Retirement Community November show; deadUne Oct. $25 for three entries; 253-752-6621.

STEILACOOM HIGH SCHOOL RED RIBBON HOLIDAY BAZAAR seeks vendors for Dec. 1 event for information and application packet call 253-582-4557. WOLF HAVEN STUDENT ART SHOW seeks artwork from area students in grades three through five; displayed in conjunction with Wolf Awareness Week; deadline Oct call for detals; 1-800-448-9653, Ext. 226. YWCA RAGS GUILD caU for entries for juried wearable art show and sale March 13 at Mercedes Benz of Tacoma; Dec deadine for digital image submissions; entry fee; wwwyweapiercecountyjorg, 253-272-4181, Ext.

352. STAGEMUSICDANCE WRITING WORKSHOPS. CLASSES ACTING CLASSES AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS by Tony Gim, MFA, member of Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, 5-8 pin. Saturdays through Dec. 31, 113 Tacoma Ave.

Tacoma; $25 per session, first one free; 253-318-9382, 253-759-9760. ANTraFXTDRY MUSIC FREE SEMINAR promoting positive social change through art, composition and imaginative collaboration with others, 35-545 pm Oct 6, Otympia Freeschool, 610 Columbia St, Otympia; 360-753-7387. AUBURN PARKS, ARTS AND RECREATION MINI MUSICAL seeks children ages 6-H years old for cast singing, dancing and acting, 630-8 pm. Thursdays through Oct. 18; preregjstration required; call or go online for information; 253-931-3043, wwwjubumwagov.

BEGINNING MUSK CLASSES guitar, 6 pm Tuesdays; adult fidde starts 6 pm Tuesdays, junior fiddfers youth group practices start in October Washington Old Time Rdders Association; call for information; 253-471-7494, 253-471-7594. CAPITAL PLAYHOUSE PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES dance, acting and voice, at Work month, 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Museum of Glass. The celebration, free to the public, will also include live music from the Tacoma Youth Symphony, hors d'oeuvres and gallery viewing.

Art at Work month includes studio tours, a slide evening, an artist symposium and other events through November. For more information, visit www. tacomaculture.org. Apply now for arta funding from City of Tacoma The City of Tacoma is accepting applications for funding for arts projects by eligible organizations producing arts programming in 2008. Funding ranges from $1,000 to $5,000, and is awarded to community projects that focus on the arts, such as festivals, public art, exhibits, performing arts series and literary events.

Eligible groups include 501(c)(3) nonprofit agencies, organized groups of community volunteers, and for-profit arts businesses proposing a nonprofit project for public benefit Applicants must have offices within Tacoma's city limits and produce funded activities within the city. The city will give a free workshop explaining the application and funding process from noon to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in Room 1444 at the Tacoma Municipal Building, 747 Market St Application forms and guidelines can be obtained at www.tacomacul-ture.org, by calling 253-591-5560 or by e-mailing sstyer cityoftacoma.org. The application deadline is Nov.

19. AOC Gallery makes plans to become a collective AOC Gallery, formerly Art on Center, is reorganizing to become an artist's collective space. The gallery at 608 S. Fawcett Tacoma, in a handy adjustment of acronym, will become Artists' Owned Collective, involving member artists in gallery administration and decisions as well as regular display of work. The gallery will become the first solely fine-art independent collective in Tacoma.

RampArt gallery shares its space, while Jet Artist Cooperative is more a working art-craft studio. Similar fine art collective galleries in Seattle include SOIL and Shift, both in the Pioneer Square district. AOC will run with an advisory board, and plans to make the switch from private business to collective in December with a large group show, says current gallery director Catherine Swanson. AOC's initial artist group includes Swanson, Betty Sapp Ra-gan, Bea Geller, Chip Van Gilder, Jason Sobottka and Trinda Love, but is looking for up to 20 members. Interested artists should send three images of their work or a Web site link to aocgalleryharbornet.com by Oct.

9. For more information, call 253-627-8180. IUitnwiyPoiiiiekMitt25i-59S56S thenewrtribunoxoin ARTS BRIEFS Tacoma artist wins award worth $11,000 from SAM Seattle Art Museum has announced Tacoma-based Oscar Tuazon as the winner of its annual Betty Bowen award. The award, worth $11,000, also entitles the winner to a year-long display of work at the museum. Two PONCHO Special Recognition awards of $1,500 each were awarded to Seattle painter Joseph Park and Portland video artist Vanessa Renwick.

The finalists also included Seattle artists Bradley Biancardi and Maki Tamura. The winners will receive their awards at a free public ceremony, slide show and reception from 550 to 8 p.m. Oct 23 in Seattle Art Museum's Nordstrom Lecture Hall. Tuazon is a Tacoma-based artist who is relatively unknown in this area, showing in Paris, New York, Norway and, earlier this year, Vancouver, B.C. Tuazon is a graduate of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a participant of the Whitney Independent Study program.

He works largely with recycled materials to create art that crosses architectural and engineering boundaries. His work supports his aesthetic of sustainable living and self-sufficiency. Four hundred sixty-two artists from Washington, Oregon and Idaho competed for this year's Betty Bowen Award. The award, now in its 29th year, is the oldest in the region, and is juried by an independent committee whose funds, administration and promotion are supported by Seattle Art Museum. Named in honor of the museum's former assistant director, the award recognizes working Northwest artists with a nonre-stricted cash grant Porter artirti, musk group, paper win city recognition A guerrilla-art duo, a music society and a weekly newspaper have been announced as the winners of this year's City of Tacoma AMOCAT award.

The award "Tacoma'' spelled backwards recognizes artists and arts groups for their contributions to the city's arts life. The individual artist award was given to Beautiful Angle, an artist duo comprising Tacamans Tom Llewellyn and Lance Kagey. Beautiful Angle creates monthly limited runs of handcrafted letterpress posters, often utilizing other local artists for the design, which they have pasted around the city since 2002. The posters combine visual art, poetry and a pro-Taco-ma philosophy. Victory Music, the 38-year-old local jazz and folk music society, was given the award for community outreach by an organization, recognizing its efforts in hosting open mike evenings, publishing the Victory Review magazine, and producing a children's concert series this summer in Tacoma's Wright Park.

Winner of the arts patron category was a newspaper, The Weekly Volcano, for dedication to arts and culture coverage since November 2001. The AMOCATs will be awarded at the opening celebration of the City of Tacoma's Art StndyowArtiCalmhrcwnttoTht Ncwi Tribunt, Pt Box 11000, Tacoma, WA9ft4TLfuto253-597-274ort-mal to ciJeiidirfrthonowrtribiMMjosiii. Include time, dste, edctofiy cost end telephone nuiibti. Meteriol must be received In writing on wwk prior to desired eta of pubtto printed on i submissions become the property of The Newi Tribune ROMAN ART EXHIBIT Elaborate statuary collection visits U.S. The Louvrafc laifMt traveling exhibit ever arrives in Indiana, hti next itop? Seattle Art MuHum in February.

BY RICK CALLAHAN The Associated Pies INDIANAPOLIS The largest traveling exhibit ever mounted by the Louvre a dazzling collection of Roman statuary, treasures and everyday objects begins with a marble lineup of the scheming royals whose lives of intrigue were captured in the acclaimed 1970s TV miniseries Augustus Caesar stands near his supposedly treacherous empress, Livia, in the opening room of "Roman Art From the which runs through Jan. 6 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art A few feet away looms Tiberius, Livia' son from another marriage who, according to some accounts, became emperor only after his mother arranged several deaths, including Caesar's, to clear his path to the throne. These royals, including the other men who ruled Rome from 27 B.C. to AD. 68 Caligula, Claudius and Nero are rendered in fine white marble that still holds intricate details such as raised veins in their arms and the complex folds of their togas after 2,000 years.

"The Romans were just masters of stone and really not to be bested, if they ever were, until the Renaissance, which was inspired by finding things like this," said Martin Krause, the show's curator, pointing to a larger-than-life statue of the emperor Trajan. Krause notes the painstakingly rendered features of leather on Trajan's military skirt and his ornate breastplate, decorated with animals and the bound figures of two captured barbarians. The Louvre exhibit is dominated by such statuary. But its 184 works also hold spectacular mosaics assembled from thousands of pieces of colored marble, glass and limestone, gold jewelry, frescoes, glass vessels, bronze lamps and other objects dating from the first century B.C. to the early fourth century A.D.

Taken as a whole, the exhibit is about more than art It is divided into sections that tell the story of the Roman world's religion, wars, intellectual life, families and funeral practices. One section even employs several busts to trace Roman women's changing hairstyles from tight curls to free-flowing hair that looks almost modern. Louvre President Henri Loyrette said most of the objects have never been seen in the United States, and half the works had long been in storage at the Paris museum. Curators spent 3 to years combing through the vast collection of Roman art the Louvre began amassing in the 16th century. The exhibit includes items unearthed in Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman cities in southern Italy buried by Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD.

and rediscovered in the 18th century. "This is the best collection of Roman art outside of Italy. Even for somebody coming from the Louvre and knowing this collection, there's a lot of discoveries to be said Loyrette, who visited the museum last week. He said all the objects were restored for the exhibit Some of the statuary, missing arms or legs when they were discovered, were fitted centuries ago with appropriate marble replacements. Those alterations are noted in exhibit notes.

Scattered throughout "Roman Art From the Louvre'' are Jupiter, Athena and other deities, fantastic creatures such as griffins half bird and half lion and golden jewelry worn by Rome's elite, including earrings festooned with pearls and emeralds. That jewelry is juxtaposed with mundane items like dark orange terra-cotta plates that would have been used by Rome's less fortunate, perhaps even the slaves who built its wonders. After the exhibit closes in Indianapolis on Jan. 6, it heads to the Seattle Art Museum (Feb.21-Mayll,2008). (fMriicJinrt vFcmjATUsOounnetPlm HORIZON BANK Vba HE fit 253 983 7600 www.horizonbank.com Is a new business bank on your Horizon? Come on we're open for business.

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