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Arts at the Armory

Over 90 Tacoma artists, all under one roof. October 16 & 17, 11 am – 5 pm. Free

20th Anniversary

Celebrating where we’ve been and where we’re going

AMOCAT Arts Awards

Honoring the innovation and care of our collective community

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We build community through the arts!
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👀Join us as we kick off #TacomaArtsMonth with a 20th Anniversary video special of music, dance, and poetry. Tune in to 📺TV Tacoma (channel 12) on October 1st at 8 pm or watch anytime at YouTube.com/CityofTacoma.🎉
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Applications are now available for Community Arts Projects funding! What community-focused arts programming - virtual or in-person - will your group produce in Tacoma in 2022? Apply for up to $6,000 in funding support. Open to all artistic disciplines. Find out more at cityoftacoma.org/artsopps.

Eligibility extends to private non-profit agencies with a 501(c) designation, organized groups of community volunteers, educational institutions or for-profit businesses wishing to produce not-for-profit arts functions, and tribes or Native non-profits.

(Photo from previously funded project: Hilltop Artists and partners for the Monkeyshines Project.)
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Next month is Tacoma Arts Month! What's on your calendar? Submit your arts activity for inclusion in the 2021 Tacoma Arts Month Events calendar! We are looking for a variety of activities spanning all categories of art and culture. Submit your event(s) at tacomaartsmonth.org/events and see link in our bio!

If you need assistance, please follow these step-by-step directions: http://ow.ly/nlvM50G42dv.
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Next month is #TacomaArtsMonth! Fill your October with exciting cultural arts experiences. Visit tacomaartsmonth.org/events for the full events calendar.
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Closing this week! Take the Public Participation Survey or the Nonprofit Organizational Survey by 9/10/21. These surveys are part of ArtsFund's (@artsfundseattle) comprehensive COVID Cultural Impact Study to understand the role arts, culture, science, and heritage nonprofits can play in the period of recovery. To learn more and take your survey, visit: artsfund.org/ccis

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How many ways can you say "if it hits the ground, it hits the Sound?" Saiyare Refaei and Gloria Joy Muhammad's new mural at McKinley & Morton shares the message in 5 languages: Twulshootseed, Spanish, Vietnamese, Khmer, and English.

However you say it, please help us keep harmful pollutants and trash out of our waterways by spreading the word that our stormdrains empty directly into the Puget Sound, untreated.

This gorgeous mural was painted with non-harmful paint. Follow the artists here: @_saikick_ @whoisgloriajoy

@spaceworkstacoma @mckinley253 @citizensforahealthybay @cityoftacoma @tacomasustainability @tacomaenviroservices @twulshootseed #tacomaart #stormdrainart #mckinleybusinessdistrict #dometoptacoma #tacomamural #tacomawa #tacomawashington

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Will you be hosting an arts event in Tacoma this October? Submit your arts activity for inclusion in the 2021 Tacoma Arts Month Events calendar! We are looking for a variety of activities spanning all categories of art and culture. Submit your event(s) at tacomaartsmonth.org/events.

If you need assistance, please follow these step-by-step directions: http://ow.ly/UUzQ50G42eH.
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#TacomaArtsMonth #CommunityArts #TacomaArts #TacomaArt #Tacoma_WA #artsandculture #art #arts #culture #artsevents #artsactivities #classes #workshops #exhibits #artists #TacomaWA

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Did you know that our stormdrains empty directly into the Puget Sound? The talented @lovesomedove is helping us spread the word with a mural at 6th & Oakes (using non-harmful paint). One way you can help keep harmful pollutants and trash out of our waterways is to share the message that "If it hits the ground, it hits the Sound"

#tacomaart #stormdrainart #6thavetacoma #tacomamural

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Arts at the Armory application deadline extended to Friday, Aug. 27 by 11:59 pm!

Applications for Tacoma Arts Month's Arts at the Armory on October 16 & 17 are due this Friday, August 27 by 11:59 pm. We're looking for artists working in all disciplines and mediums who want to share their work with the community. Visit the link in our bio to apply and read the eligibility guidelines.

Arts at the Armory is a new Tacoma Arts Month event, developed specifically to provide local artists with an opportunity to share, demonstrate, and/or sell their work to the general public in a safe and monitored setting as the world reopens and recovers from the pandemic. This event is sponsored by Tacoma Arts Live [@tacomaartslive].

The event will be held Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, inside the spacious 20,000 square foot Tacoma Armory (1001 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, WA 98405). Artists can choose to participate on Saturday, Sunday, or both days. This event is free and family friendly.

Apply at the link in our bio!
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#TacomaArtsMonth #ArtsattheArmory #TacomaArtsLive #CommunityArts #TacomaArts #TacomaArt #Tacoma_WA

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The COVID Cultural Impact Study ends soon! Help ArtsFund (@artsfundseattle) learn about the pandemic’s impacts to arts, cultural, heritage, and science 501(c)(3) or fiscally sponsored organizations and the communities they serve. Deadline to submit your survey is 9/10/21. To learn more, visit: artsfund.org/ccis

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The Puyallup Tribal Language program (@Twulshootseed) is working with Native artists to create txʷəlšucid yard signs. These signs are a way to help share the Lushootseed language within our community. Stop by People's Park (900 MLK Jr. Way) on Saturday, August 21 between 11 - 2 and pick up a free sign.

We are honored to support this program with Community Arts Projects funding.
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#tacomawa #tacomaartist #artsandculture #tacoma #tacoma_wa #tacomaart #tacomaarts #uplifttacoma

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💡Applications for Tacoma Arts Month's Arts at the Armory on October 16 & 17 are due this Sunday, August 22 by 11:59 pm. We're looking for artists working in all disciplines and mediums who want to share their work with the community. Visit the link in our bio for the application and eligibility guidelines.

Arts at the Armory is a new Tacoma Arts Month event, developed specifically to provide local artists with an opportunity to share, demonstrate, and/or sell their work to the general public in a safe and monitored setting as the world reopens and recovers from the pandemic. This event is sponsored by Tacoma Arts Live [@tacomaartslive].

The event will be held Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, inside the spacious 20,000 square foot Tacoma Armory (1001 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, WA 98405). Artists can choose to participate on Saturday, Sunday, or both days. This event is free and family friendly.

Apply at the link in our bio!
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#TacomaArtsMonth #ArtsattheArmory #TacomaArtsLive #CommunityArts #TacomaArts #TacomaArt #Tacoma_WA

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It's 'Tacoma Artist Thursday'! Today we are featuring Rico Lastrapes -

Rico Lastrapes (@musical.rico.la) is an Equity actor, a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, a choreographer, and a teaching artist. Rico started composing while attending Douglas Anderson School of the Arts for Music. He has arranged music for numerous professional and community productions, including Sweeney Todd and Godspell. Original compositions include a 20-minute opera, a string quartet, a brass quintet, and solos for the voice and various instruments.

For his TAIP project, Rico is working on the development and a staged workshop of Rotten Business: A Kin to History, Book by Bret Lawrence, Lyrics by Larisa Juno, Music by Rico Lastrapes. This original musical follows Sasha, a fictional descendant of Anne Lister, struggling to express her identity as a young lesbian in the Age of Information. The piece aims to raise awareness of Anne Lister as a prominent queer historical figure and add more well-rounded queer characters to the musical theatre canon. Anne is an example of self-awareness, confidence, perseverance and bravado in the face of ignorance and systemic obstacles. Simultaneously, Sasha is a lens through which Anne can observe the modern world and put words to an identity she was inherently aware of, but didn't have the language to fully unpack.

We are honored to support Rico's work through the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program.
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#tacomawa #tacomaartist #TAIP #artsandculture #tacoma #tacoma_wa #tacomaart #tacomaarts #uplifttacoma

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Have you participated in at least one arts, cultural, heritage, or science program offered by a Washington nonprofit organization since March 2020? If so, please take ArtsFund's Public Participation Survey. And, if you are a Washington state arts, cultural, heritage, and science 501(c)(3) or fiscally sponsored organization, please take the Nonprofit Organizational Survey. ArtsFund (@artsfundseattle) wants to understand the role of arts, culture, science, and heritage nonprofits can play in the period of recovery. Learn more and take the survey at artsfund.org/ccis

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If you weren't able to make the July Art Talk, this is your chance to learn how local artist Curtis Ashby (@curtisashbyart) gets inspired to create his bird themed mural art through nature observation. Then take a guided bird and nature walk with Tahoma Audubon (@tahomaaudubon) through the Tacoma Community College Wetlands to try out your newly learned bird and nature observation and sketching skills. Bring your sketchbook, notebook, paper, pencils, pens, markers or whatever you may need to do some in-the-field sketches! Space is limited for this FREE event; register here: http://ow.ly/GCJ350FJHvI. Registrants will get exact meeting address upon registering for the event.

This opportunity is part of a mural project Curtis is creating for Tacoma Housing (@tacomahousing) at James Center North. We are honored to support this project with Tacoma Artists Initiative Program funding.
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It's 'Tacoma Artist Thursday'! Today we are featuring Maria Jost -

Maria Jost (@patternsinnature) is a Tacoma-based artist whose work is primarily influenced and inspired by the biological sciences. Her small illustrations are made using watercolor, ink and collage elements created from original artwork. Larger projects include From Sea to Shore, a mural in the touch tank of Point Defiance Aquarium (@ptdefiancezoo), and interactive temporary public art installations in Tacoma and Seattle. Topics of illustrative work and past projects have included human uses and interactions with local flora and fauna, the cycling of energy and matter within an ecosystem, natural selection, the plight of marine organisms, and most currently, neurodiversity and brain health.

Maria’s TAIP project seeks to positively influence mental health in Tacoma residents through the creation and distribution of an illustrated brain care tool. A set of cards containing original artwork and brain care exercises will be created and distributed to participants, with directed focus on communities and groups most impacted by mental health challenges. The exercises will be informed by polyvagal theory, the pathology of embodied trauma, and clinical approaches used to foster feelings of safety and prosocial behavior, all science-based approaches shown to positively affect the practitioner’s mental and physical state. The artistic imagery will be inspired by neurophysiological structures involved in emotional regulation, physical sensations elicited by the somatic exercises on the cards, and natural patterns found in local organisms and biological communities.

We are honored to support Maria's work through the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program.
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📣A call to Tacoma artists! Applications for Tacoma Arts Month's Arts at the Armory on October 16 & 17 are due Sunday, August 22 by 11:59 pm. We're looking for artists working in all disciplines and mediums who want to share their work with the community. Visit tacomaarts.submittable.com/submit for the application and eligibility guidelines.

Arts at the Armory is a new Tacoma Arts Month event, developed specifically to provide local artists with an opportunity to share, demonstrate, and/or sell their work to the general public in a safe and monitored setting as the world reopens and recovers from the pandemic. This event is sponsored by Tacoma Arts Live [@tacomaartslive].

The event will be held Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, inside the spacious 20,000 square foot Tacoma Armory (1001 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, WA 98405). Artists can choose to participate on Saturday, Sunday, or both days. This event is free and family friendly.

Apply at tacomaarts.submittable.com/submit for the application and eligibility guidelines.
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Calling all Washington state arts, cultural, heritage, and science 501(c)(3) or fiscally sponsored organizations - take part in ArtsFund's (@artsfundseattle) comprehensive COVID Cultural Impact Study to help advocate for nonprofits across the state. The first step? Take the Nonprofit Organizational Survey. To learn more and take the survey, visit: artsfund.org/ccis

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ʔuk’ʷədiitəb ʔuhigʷətəb čəɫ txʷəl tiiɫ ʔa čəɫ ʔal tə swatxʷixʷtxʷəd ʔə tiiɫ puyaləpabš dxʷəsɫaɫlils gʷəl ʔutxʷəlšucidəbs həlgʷəʔ.
We gratefully acknowledge that we rest on the traditional lands of the Puyallup People where they make their home and speak the Lushootseed language.

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