Mend by Yoshi Nakagawa | Woolworth Window #3 | On view through Dec. 9 | 1098 Commerce Street, Downtown Tacoma

All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street.

In the quiet glow of downtown Tacoma’s Woolworth Windows, artist Yoshi Nakagawa has turned transparency into meditation. Mend is a series of prints and mixed-media works on delicate washi paper — stitched with thread, memory, and the slow rhythm of repair. Each piece holds a fragment of Nakagawa’s Japanese American identity, woven through the Pacific Northwest’s textures of rain, bark, and breath. It’s art as restoration — mending not just paper, but the fragile seams between people and place, tradition and transformation. You can’t rush this kind of healing; it waits for you in passing, visible from the sidewalk, quietly radiant after dark.

Cooler Postfunk: Japas Cervejaria Ma Pilsner
After taking in the subtle strength of Mend, head to our cooler for a Japas Ma Pilsner — crisp, floral, and balanced with soft malt sweetness and noble hop spice. Brewed by three Japanese-Brazilian women, it’s a cross-cultural expression of craft and grace — a beer that, like Nakagawa’s art, honors heritage while stitching new stories into the world.

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