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SUMMARY:Watercolor Your Tacoma Neighborhood
DESCRIPTION:Kirsten Sparenborg\nDiscover a new way to see your neighborhood through color\, pattern\, and sensory memory. In this immersive workshop\, participants will use deliberate hand‑eye coordination and focused brushwork to paint watercolor “Art Maps” of their Tacoma neighborhoods. Using a printed map as your guide\, you will trace streets\, blocks\, and familiar patterns as you translate the urban fabric into expressive\, personal artwork. \n\nTogether\, we will mix colors inspired by how our neighborhoods feel. This includes sensory impressions\, emotional tones\, and everyday textures that make each block meaningful. As you paint and watch your map come to life\, you will have space to reflect on the places you move through every day. These may include the parks and pathways you love\, the streets that shape your routines\, and the memories tied to them. \nBeyond the artwork itself\, this workshop encourages connection to Place and to one another. Through guided conversation\, we will share stories about neighborhood\, community\, and belonging. Participants are invited to explore how they can appreciate the places they call home and how deeper understanding can foster more meaningful personal connections. \nSorry\, this event is now sold out.  \n\nAbout the Instructor\nTrained as an architect\, historian and urbanist\, Kirsten Sparenborg (Turn-of-the-Centuries) is drawn to the structure as well as the sensory aspects of Places. She uses hand-drawn lines\, paint and sometimes thread to render beloved Places as Art Maps. She creates artwork in her home studio in Tacoma\, Washington\, alongside the Salish Sea and on the tribal homelands of the Puyallup and Coast Salish people.\n\nThe overall objective of her work is connecting people and places through art\, maps and stories to understand and enrich the human experience within the natural landscape. In addition to the conversations she shares at art markets about beloved Places and her experiences there\, she loves to facilitate connections between people and their Places. For ten years\, she has found water coloring maps to be a meditative\, thoughtful practice that connects her to Place – seeing urban patterns emerge as she paints\, mixing colors to match her sensory experience of a Place.
URL:https://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/event/watercolor-your-tacoma-neighborhood/
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