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Gets Real: Tacoma Art Museum celebrates work of Hilltop artists

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 ...
Seattle Magazine

Tacoma Art Museum Reckons With the Roots of One of its Biggest Collections

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) ...
Seattle Times

Tacoma Art Museum workers push to unionize

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 ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

The Arts Scene: Tacoma Art Museum redesigns Dale Chihuly glass display

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 ...
AOL

Tacoma Art Museum chooses Midwest museum head as its newest executive director

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 ...
KING5

With its "On Native Land" exhibit, Tacoma Art Museum pays respect to the people who lived here first. And still do.

TACOMA, Wash. — On land another people still call their home, the Tacoma Art Museum has devoted an entire gallery to recognizing its place in the world. “We're here on the unseated homelands of the ...
Seattle Times

Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘GATHER’ exhibit highlights 27 years of Hilltop Artists glassblowing programs for young people

When Trenton Quiocho first completed his time learning at Hilltop Artists, which teaches young people between ages 12 and 20 in Pierce County the art of glassblowing, he said he felt like there were ...
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Tacoma Art Museum's new wing features sun screens that operate like railroad box car doors

The new Haub Family Galleries at the Tacoma Art Museum (TAM), designed by Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects, opened to the public last week. The galleries, together with a new entry plaza, mark ...
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New Tacoma Art Museum exhibit explores haunting power of memory

Seattle man accused of beating mother over his obsession with TikTok star Police are looking for a Seattle man suspected of beating his mother over an argument involving a TikTok star. Back in October ...
KING5

Tacoma Art Museum exhibit celebrates grassroots program that turns at risk students into artists

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 ...
The Spokesman-Review

Tacoma Art Museum at leadership crossroads at a time when employees work to unionize

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 ...
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Visiting Tacoma’s museum row? Check out our guide for nearby restaurants, parking options

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, ...