Arts Events
Arts and culture programming to fill October
Opening Party
Launch Arts Month at STAR Center on Oct. 5!
Studio Tour
AMOCAT Arts Awards
Honoring vision, dedication, and action in our community
Arts at the Armory
Arts Events image: Snippet of 2022 Tacoma Arts Month Events calendar, learn more here: tacomaartsmonth.org/events.
Opening Party image: The Playground Kiki ballroom performance at Kaleidoscope, the Tacoma Arts Month opening party in 2022. Photo by Jamika Scott.
Studio Tour image: 2022 Tacoma Studio Tour attendees participate in a group painting at the studio of Mary Mann.
AMOCAT Arts Awards image: AMOCAT Arts Award design by Chandler O’Leary
Arts at the Armory image: Panoramic view of Arts at the Armory event in 2022.
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Vernon Ng is an interdisciplinary artist and English professor at Pierce College. His Tacoma Artists Initiative Program-funded project “Tacoma Inspection Tour” adapts classical Chinese scholarly practices to examine the history of race and ethnicity—and its public representation—in Pierce County. Through a series of ink rubbings and landscape photographs, his project explores local sites that hold complex, overlapping meanings especially for Asian American and Native communities. A set of bound rubbings and photographs will be donated to the Northwest Room at the Tacoma Public Library.
We are honored to support Vernon's work through the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program.
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Curated by a panel of art jurists, the 2nd Annual TCC Black Artists Exhinition features work by more than 20 South Sound artists. With media including painting, drawing, photography and glass art, some of the exhibition’s works provide windows into personal history and collective culture.
Taken as a whole, the exhibition challenges us to take an expansive view of Black art as an abundance of unique expressions drawn from the deep well of vibrant community.
See this marvelous work at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College,@tacomacc from February 1st-29th, 2024.
🔔 Applications for the 2024-25 funding cycle are now open!!
Tacoma Creates is now accepting applications for its fifth year of funding, supporting cultural organizations’ programs and events to be presented between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
Tacoma Creates supports non-profit organizations whose primary purpose is to advance and/or preserve arts, culture, heritage, and/or science through two funding categories: Comprehensive Organizational Support and Impact Funding.
Funding is determined through a competitive application process and is intended to help eligible non-profit organizations expand equitable access to public programs, grow educational options for youth, increase opportunities in neighborhoods throughout Tacoma, and build sustainability for continued services.
🚨 Deadline for the Comprehensive Organizational Support application is Monday, March 11, 2024, 11:59pm.
🚨 Deadline for the Impact Funding application is Monday, March 25, 2024, 11:59pm.
Learn more on our website: www.tacomacreates.org. Help us spread the word about this great funding opportunity!
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Photo Credit: Puget Sound Revels Dragon Parade; photo by Lisa Monet.
Introducing the "Out of the Box" Adventure, a social media challenge showcasing Tacoma’s 17 new vibrant traffic box wrap designs. Local artists have transformed these *kinda* boring grey structures into ART that shares stories, celebrates who we are, and appreciates nature. Join the challenge with these simple steps:
-Visit 3 artist-wrapped traffic boxes.
-Capture a selfie or video at each location.
-Share your 3 selfies on Instagram (IG) or Facebook (FB)
-Tag us @tacomaarts (IG) or @tacomaartscommission (FB) and use hashtags: #outoftheboxtacoma, #tacomaarts, #publicart
-Complete the challenge and be entered to win a drawing for a prize package (limited quantity ).
We'd love to share your content, so make your post or story PUBLIC. Under 18? Post on your guardian's account—no DM submissions, please. Follow safety traffic rules, dress warmly, and cross streets cautiously. Public transportation is encouraged; check @piercetransit for routes.
Explore these artist locations:
Joseph Brooks – S. 19th and Clay Huntington @josephbrooksart
Linda Sholberg – S. 9th and Yakima @linda.sholberg.art
Loretta Morgan Fernandez – S. 11th and Market @lorettamorganart
Bethany Fackrell – S. 13th and A
Anna Warnecke – S. 15th and Broadway @annamariewarnecke
Jeremy Gregory - S. 15th and Market @candyteethcreative
Fin Martens – S. 15th and Pacific @ferwren
Mark Anthony Smith – S. 15th and Tacoma Ave.
RR Anderson – S. 19th and Fawcett @commander_rr
Matamatanonofo Porter – S. 21st and Fawcett @itsjust_nofo
Anna Brones – S. 21st and Market @annabrones
JJ Knoll – S. 56th and Oakes @jj.noll.art
Zak Rivera – S. 56th and Washington
Curtis Ashby – S. 74th and Washington @curtisashbyart
Mark Monlux – S. 72nd and Yakima @markmonlux
Rodney King – S. 84th and Yakima @_kingspen
Jesse Peterson – S. 96th and Yakima @joose253
If you have any questions, please email Dgarcia2@cityoftacoma.org
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