On November 6th and 7th from 10am-4pm, studios and artist are opening their spaces up to the public for Tacoma’s Art at Work, featuring forty-four locations throughout Tacoma.

City Arts asked some of the artists to give you just a taste of what’s in store.

Name:

Michaela Eaves



Primary artistic medium/media:

Watercolor/gouache, acrylic.

Studio street address:

Jet Artist Coop

1901 S. Jefferson Street

Third Floor

Price per square foot of studio to rent:

Not sure….$137.50/mo for a decent-sized space. Maybe 10×15?

What art items you sell you’d think would fit in a City Arts’ December

gift guide (designed to promote local artists)?

Greeting cards, Santas and snowmen made from driftwood and encaustic,

ornaments, children’s art.



What you’re working on now?

Art doors and fantasy illustration work.



Most dangerous tool in your studio:

My brain and an exacto knife.



Weirdest material(s) you’re currently working with:

Encaustic. Also painting on a door, which is always more than you bargain for.



Mental health “drug” of choice:

Caffeine and loud music.



Favorite part about your studio space:

The feeling that everyone else has a productive space in a well-lit

area. It feels like art school in that it feels full of possibilities.



Least favorite part about your studio space:

I can’t have my dog there.



Your favorite completed work:

Our Lady of the Narrows, because it brings together myth and local geography.

Stay tuned for more interviews with Tacoma artists all this week.