In a hot shop in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, artists are being forged in glass. The Hilltop Artists program was created for at-risk youth during a turbulent time in the Tacoma community. Now the ...

Tacoma Art Museum now has a pair of wings. At the museum’s north end, a ceremonial breakthrough of the new $10.2 million Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Wing was made by the couple’s sledge hammer-wielding ...

On the night of Nov. 3, 1885, a mob composed of hundreds of people marched through Tacoma, expelling members of the Chinese community from their homes, intimidating them (with weapons and threats) ...

Tacoma Art Museum now has enough wings to take flight. The museum’s new Benaroya Wing opens at 10 a.m. Jan. 19. Built over the past year at the north end of the museum, it’s the second addition to TAM ...

This past week I drove over to Olympia, which is about a four-hour drive. It would be a bit shorter, but there are traffic slowdowns from Tacoma south. As we were inching along, I was thinking about ...

TACOMA, Wash. — At the Tacoma Art Museum exhibit, Gather: 27 Years of Hilltop Artists, there are works made entirely of glass, colorful paintings that celebrate heritage, even sculptures made with ...

A North Dakota art museum head will soon be the newest executive director of the Tacoma Art Museum, its board announced last week after a months-long nationwide search. Andrew Maus begins his role at ...

TACOMA — Workers at the Tacoma Art Museum are moving to join the Washington Federation of State Employees and become the state’s first museum with unionized workers across departments. About a dozen ...

Take a winter outing to Tacoma Museum District’s Washington State History Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Glass and Children’s Museum of Tacoma — all within walking distance in downtown Tacoma.

A leadership vacuum at Tacoma Art Museum has left the institution without an permanent executive director, and soon it will have only one of its three curators left. The changes come while its staff ...

Tacoma is home to a number of museums, many of which have free entry hours and neighborhood nights. If you’re planning an outing to a Tacoma museum in the region of Dock Street and Pacific Avenue, ...