TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum commemorates the end of the 2006 fall exhibition season with two closing celebrations. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to meet Trimpin and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson and experience their work through the artists’ perspectives.

Celebration for Trimpin: Conloninpurple - Live Performance of Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano. Sunday, January 14, 2007. 3:30 pm.

In a fitting conclusion to the two-year series of exhibitions honoring the remarkable career of Northwest artist Trimpin, Tacoma Art Museum has partnered with Sonority Music Productions to present a selection from Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano. Trimpin will play selections from Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano using a laptop-controlled box filled with eighty-eight piston-driven mallets placed over the keyboard of a baby grand piano. It was Nancarrow’s use of mechanical instruments to play music human beings would be incapable of performing that inspired Trimpin to create Conloninpurple.

The program also will include a thirty-minute documentary about Nancarrow (1912-1997). Cost is $5 for members; $10 for non-members, and includes museum admission and reception.

Celebration for Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson: FREE Community Celebration: My Family, My Community, My World! Sunday, January 28, 2007, 1 – 5 pm.

The community will gather to celebrate the universal themes in the art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. Spoken word, gospel music, dance, film, and art-making will be among the many multi-generational festivities that close Symphonic Poem. Robinson will speak in the gallery, sign copies of her books, and work with visitors as they create mixed-media artwork that reflects community and family.

This program is generously sponsored by The Jean E. Thomson Foundation, the Dan and Pat Nelson Family Foundation, and The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation.