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King’s Books in Tacoma celebrates their seventh annual Wayzgoose on Sunday, April 17 from 11 am to 4 pm and if you’re at all interested in letterpress and books arts you won’t want to miss it.

At the festival you’ll get to meet local printers and view their wares, print your own keepsake, make paper and paper creations, create letter magnetic poetry, and experience the thrill of steamroller printing. Bring a t-shirt or other fabric to screenprint on and students from the University of Puget Sound will print one of three designs on it for you.

Artists on hand include: Springtide Press, Beautiful Angle, Notta Pixie Press, ilfant press, L’Arche Tahoma Hope Farm & Gardens, Seattle Center for Book Arts, Anagram Press, and many, many more.

King’s Books is located in Tacoma’s Stadium District at 218 St. Helens Ave.

Now through the 7th, Vermillion presents a show of collage works by Mark Mueller who grabs from the layers and layers of posters hanging in the neighborhood and repurposes their pieces into new pieces that transform their original meanings while still preserving their status as cultural artifacts.

The show’s reception is Thursday, August 5 from 6 – 9 pm; that same night from 8 pm through midnight, stick around or head over to Vermillion for Frances Farmer Organ Karaoke during which they’ll be celebrating those born under the sign of Leo by allowing them to engage in terrible, terrible behavior.

What do skateboarding, street art and the Middle East have in common? They’re all elements of Yallah! Artivism for Peace, a group show at evo on August 6 that serves as the launch and fundraising party for The Bedouins, a new non-profit with the goal of using skateboarding and street art as a tool for fostering peace between Arab and Israeli youth.

The show features skate decks, paintings, photos, video and music aimed at raising awareness and developing some funds for peace projects. The free show takes place August 6 from 6 to 10 pm at evo’s – 122 NW 36th St in Seattle.

Norman Laliberte’ is a North American artist who was born in Massachusetts, raised in Montreal, and educated at the Institute of Design in Chicago where his teachers included the likes of Buckminster Fuller, Groplus, and Mies Van der Rohe. His skills include teaching, painting and illustration. He has written, designed, or illustrated some 35 books, and taught at the Kansas City Art Institute, Boston College, Notre Dame, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Influenced by such artists as Marc Chagall, Rauschenberg, and Rouault, Laliberte’ has amassed an impressive body of work in his six-decades long career. His work has appeared in hundreds of shows and has been honored by five retrospectives, including at the Chicago Public Library and the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. His major public works include banners for the 25th anniversary of the Chicago Lyric Opera, aluminum panels for the International Terminal at Logan Airport, and large scale projects for the New York State Bar Association, Standard Oil, IBM and Alcan Corporation.

Next up for the accomplished artist is a new retrospective of his work including textural paintings on tar paper, handmade books and a variety of mixed media pieces. Animals, flowers and various whimsical figures populate his abstract expressionism style.

Laliberte’: 60 Years of Joyful Creation opens March 5 with a Gallery Walk Exhibition and runs through April 9 at Gallery DeNovo in Ketchum.