When young artists are out of school, new to town, or just all
worked up and don’t know where to go, they go to SOIL to get
connected. It’s time again for the venerable artist collective’s annual
auction, this year with work by Deb Baxter, Dawn Cerny, Mark Dombrosky,
Yuki Nakamura, Katy Stone, and Jennifer Zwick—and if these names
mean nothing to you, then you really have to go. (Greg Kucera
Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Silent auction begins at 3:30 pm,
live auction at 5 pm, $10.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...