tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66254928338516175982024-02-18T19:54:30.656-08:004th Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl - TacomaJim Bumgarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239031501783525649noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625492833851617598.post-90510668721208502562016-08-21T20:07:00.002-07:002016-12-17T13:55:50.587-08:00Thank you, Tacoma Urban Sketchers! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Frances Buckmaster, local organizer extraordinaire, and her team of volunteer red-shirts put on an event that will long be remembered by all who attended. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">What fun and what a pleasure to spend the weekend in Tacoma with 150, or so, like-minded Urban Sketchers...I drove all the way home today, 250 miles, give or take, on Cloud Nine! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Hope to see you again next summer in Chicago at the Symposium, and at the"5th Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl, which will be taken outa-the-box (USA), and into <a href="http://5thwcuskskcrawl.blogspot.com/">VANCOUVER, BC,</a> on August 11-13, 2017. #uskvan5 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Thanks to all who were there this weekend, you were lovely!! </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/usktac4?source=feed_text" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #4267b2;">#</span><span class="_58cm">usktac4</span></a>Jim Bumgarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239031501783525649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625492833851617598.post-37344672661635641682015-12-14T17:08:00.002-08:002016-08-10T11:08:30.607-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Join us in August, 2016, in another fabulous west coast city, <a href="http://www.traveltacoma.com/regions/tacoma/"><b>Tacoma, Washington</b></a>, for the fourth in a series of annual west coast urban sketchers sketch crawl events. We have been in the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and San Diego over the past three summers, and this coming summer we offer up Tacoma, the second largest urban area in the state of Washington. Tacoma offers an historically and architecturally rich <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=downtown+tacoma&safe=off&rlz=1C1FLDB_enUS521US533&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=637&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji89LXwuzJAhWE5iYKHQFWB0sQ_AUICCgD"><b>downtown area</b></a> that cries out for the sketcher/artist to pay it homage, and we are excited about sharing that opportunity with the global urbansketcher community.<br />
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Because we offer no workshops or demonstrations, these annual west coast events are FREE. Each is designed for simply a few days of pure sketching in another of our fabulous west coast cities with others who share the same passions about sketching in urban environments.<br />
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If you are coming from out of town, please find a listing of accommodations in the right margin, and there are maps embedded in the agenda below showing where each event will be held. Also check out the Tacoma Link Light Rail in the right margin to learn about how free and easy one can travel from one end of downtown to the other. </div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">1. Friday</span></b> -<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><u>August 19th</u>.</i></span> </b><br />
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>Meet & Greet Dinner -</i> at <a href="http://www.picassocatering.com/">Picasso Catering</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Picasso+Catering/@47.2217188,-122.4857106,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x5491aaabf9a06511:0x535ebca22cdf04c3!8m2!3d47.2217188!4d-122.4835219">map</a>)</b><br />
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<b>Parking:</b> There are two free parking lots and free on-street parking. (Watch for Parking Volunteers and the Urban Sketchers sign at 38th and Union.)</div>
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<b>Registration</b><b> </b><b>begins at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356326" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:00 pm</span></span></b><b>. </b>Dinner will begin to be served between <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356327" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:45 - 7 pm</span></span>. During the evening, we will do some 'ever popular' Five Minute portrait sketches of each other and, also hold <u>two</u>Drawings for art supplies donated by our Sponsors and local donors. All sketchers will receive a free ticket for the first Drawing for art supplies. Those sketchers who sent their RSVP by 8/5 will receive a second free ticket for a Special Drawing for very special art supply donations.</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Our caterer is offering four dinner choices to serve various tastes (meat, fish, vegetarian, gluten free).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Each dinner will cost $25, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">which includes the tip. There will be a no-host bar for wine, beer, cider, etc.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Menu details are in the RSVP form, below.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Please use the RSVP link below to fill out the reservation and meal choice form. You will receive a confirmation email from one of the event staff. Please <u>DO NOT</u> call the caterer to make your reservation. All reservations must come through the link below.</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">2. Saturday</span></b> - <span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>August 20th</b></u>.</span></i><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Free Parking - </b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">At the south end of the the </span><a href="http://www.washingtonhistory.org/" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Washington State History Museum</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> (</span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington+State+History+Museum/@47.244736,-122.4381427,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x549055773dad362d:0xac232a7578f9e864!8m2!3d47.244736!4d-122.435954" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">map</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">): enter the parking lot from Pacific Ave. ( Watch for "Urban Sketchers" sign.)</span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> You may park</b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u>until</u> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356335" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:00 pm (</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with the proper Event tag from the Parking Volunteer). (There is a wedding immediately after our event & the Parking spaces are needed.)</span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b style="color: black;"><br />Registration</b><b><span style="color: black;"> begins at </span><span style="color: black;"><u>8:00 am </u></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">in the "Lobby" of the Auditorium.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Volunteer Guides will be present.</span><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Welcome & Orientation </span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">will follow and we will <b>depart to sketch at about </b><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">9:15 am. </span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>At </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356337" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:30 am</span></span>, </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">meet on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b> Plaza of the "Museum of Glass"</b> to<b> share sketches</b> and take our <b>Official Group Photo. </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Volunteer Guides will direct you there.) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Lunch</b> - You may choose to be on your own for lunch; or you may wish to join one of our LUNCH HOSTS (volunteers) at area restaurants. You may join any of these groups; however you may want to consider chosing a restaurant in the direction where you will likely do your afternoon sketching. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Final Sketch Share for the day, and group photo</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> will take place at <b><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356338" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4 pm</span></span> on the Plaza at the "Museum of Glass."</b></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">3. Sunday</span></b> - <span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>August 21st</b></u>.</span></i><br />
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On-street</b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Parking </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Free </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on Sundays in Tacoma.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Meet by the </b><b>front door of the <a href="http://tacomaartmuseum.org/">Tacoma Art Museum</a> <u>(</u><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tacoma+Art+Museum/@47.2476754,-122.4388437,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x549055767fbf08b3:0x36b988e142fb3606!8m2!3d47.2476754!4d-122.436655" style="text-decoration: underline;">map</a><u>)</u> at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356340" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:00 am</span></span>.</b> for announcements.<b> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(The Tacoma Art Museum opens at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356341" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 am</span></span>.)<b> </b> <b>Meet again</b> <b>at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1976356342" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:30</span></span></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>in Tollefson Plaza, directly across the street from the Tacoma Art Museum, </b>for sketch- sharing, a group photo, and closing remarks<b> </b></span><br />
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<b>The </b><b><u>Dinner Registrar</u></b><b> receives your information about your and your guests (if any) meal choices when you fill out the form after clicking RSVP. </b></div>
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<b></b><u><b>ALL DINNER RESERVATIONS MUST COME THROUGH THIS RSVP LINK</b></u><u><b> AND FORM, </b></u><u><b> <i>NOT</i> THROUGH THE CATERER. </b></u></div>
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You will find four choices to serve various tastes and needs. Each dinner costs $25, which includes the tip. There will be a no-host bar for wine, beer, cider, etc. All menu details are on the RSVP FORM. </div>
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<u><b>The Dinner Registrar will send you an email confirmation of your reservation(s) and dinner.</b></u><br />
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<b>If you need to make any subsequent changes or cancellations , regarding your dinner reservations, send the information to the DINNER REGISTRAR, at the email address on the confirmation email</b>. </div>
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You may pay for your dinner(s) during Registration at Picasso's.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><u><b>SO PLEASE TRY TO BRING SMALLER BILLS.</b></u></span> </div>
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<b><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://4thwcuskskcrawl.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">RSVP - CLICK HERE </a></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: yellow; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></b></div>
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