Oct. 21, 2009
Media contacts: Naomi Strom-Avila, City of Tacoma cultural arts specialist, (253) 591-5191 or Diane Lachel, Click! Cable TV government and community relations manager, (253) 502-8537
Click! Cable TV customers now have an even wider palette of on-demand options to choose from. Click! ON Demand’s new “TacomaArt & Culture” channel airs a variety of current arts programs and projects created by South Sound artists, including artists and organizations funded by the City of Tacoma Arts Commission.
Earlier this summer, the Arts Commission sponsored a juried process for local artists to promote the creation of original video, audio and performance pieces for the new channel. Submissions were rated on artistic excellence, general interest and appeal to a wide audience.
One Tacoma artist, Holly Senn, submitted short videos that provide background information on how four of her art installations came about. The videos were initially produced with YouTube audiences in mind.
“The Commission’s invitation offered an opportunity to share my work with a wider audience,” Senn said. “My work is on display anywhere from three weeks to three months, and then it’s gone. My art explores the life cycle of ideas. I use botanical forms as a model to show how thoughts originate, germinate and then are disseminated or forgotten.”
“This is exactly what we hoped for when partnering with Click!,” said City of Tacoma Arts Administrator Amy McBride. “It’s a chance for local artists to have a new venue in which to showcase their art and themselves. Holly Senn took full advantage of the opportunity and if you haven’t seen her work, you’re in for a surprise!”
Other local artists’ work include “Where Rails Meet Sails” an album fusing rock, electronica and folk by recording artist Chad Hagedorn and poetry brought to life with photographs and music by Jennifer Chushcoff in her two submittals, “Tacoma Transplant” and “Elemental Elegy.”
Click! Cable TV customers with a digital receiver can access ON Demand 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
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About Click! Network
Tacoma Power’s Click! Network is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned telecommunications systems. Click! provides competitive residential and business services, including cable television, high-speed data, Internet and broadband services, in the cities of Tacoma, University Place, Fircrest, Lakewood, Fife and portions of unincorporated Pierce County. Visit clickcabletv.com or call (253) 502-8900 for more information.
About The Arts Commission
The Tacoma Arts Commission is a 15 member volunteer commission made up of Tacoma residents who are arts advocates and artists and whose primary responsibility is to create policies to support the ongoing development of arts programs and projects in Tacoma. Visit tacomaculture.org or call (253) 591-5191 for more information.
