Tacoma Art Museum

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Tacoma Art Museum serves the diverse communities of the Northwest through its collection, exhibitions, and learning programs, emphasizing art and artists from the Northwest and broader western region.

As Haunted comes to a close we welcome you to join us at TAM on Sunday June 7, to hear an overview of Mary Ann Peter’s w...
05/29/2026

As Haunted comes to a close we welcome you to join us at TAM on Sunday June 7, to hear an overview of Mary Ann Peter’s work using Impossible Monument (on my eyes and my head), as a point of departure.

This work is currently on view at TAM in the Haunted exhibition, closing June 7.

Free registration can be found on our event page.

Experience L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s first full length film, with an original live score by Lori Goldston and Corey J. B...
05/28/2026

Experience L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s first full length film, with an original live score by Lori Goldston and Corey J. Brewer on Saturday June 27 at TAM!

Free registration can be found on our events calendar, save your spot for this unique experience!

Discover the rich heritage and creative possibilities of head wraps at our next Creative Aging program, Wednesday, June ...
05/27/2026

Discover the rich heritage and creative possibilities of head wraps at our next Creative Aging program, Wednesday, June 3 from 10:00-11:30 AM. Creative Aging (50+) is a free monthly program designed to inspire and connect. Each session offers enriching gallery conversations centered on current exhibitions, hands-on art workshops, and welcoming community time. This month features special guest artist Ruth Esther teaching "Cultural Elegance: A Global Head Wrap Styling Class." All materials are provided, and no prior art experience is necessary. Pre-registration is encouraged to help us prepare supplies. Learn more and register on our site!

Opening this Thursday, May 28, Project NW presents Epiphany Couch's "č’adac (Inheritance)." Working across photography, ...
05/26/2026

Opening this Thursday, May 28, Project NW presents Epiphany Couch's "č’adac (Inheritance)."

Working across photography, beadwork, weaving, and collage, she reinterprets traditional forms to create images, installations, and sculptural works that engage ancestral knowledge and invite new ways of understanding. Her practice is rooted in unconventional collaboration—across time, between generations, and with the natural world—recognizing these relationships as vital to sustaining memory, culture, and identity.
Couch is spuyaləpabš (Puyallup), Yakama, and Scandinavian/Mixed European, and grew up in caləłali (Tacoma, Washington). Her work has been acquired for public and private collections and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs across the United States. Couch lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where she is a member of the artist-run gallery Carnation Contemporary, the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, and the Cyme Collective.

Learn more about Project NW: Epiphany Couch at https://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/exhibit/project-nw-epiphany-couch/

Image 1:
Epiphany Couch,
"A Thrift Store Jean Jacket with a Beaded Mt Tahoma on the Back. The One Your Grandma Showed to You in a Dream," 2024. Kitchen chair, 49 DZINE fabric, jean jacket, glass beads, and abalone. 39 x 18 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo credit: Mario Gallucci

Image 2:
detail

Our Visitor Services Staff are a vital part of TAM. They not only help our guests, but they work with local artists in t...
05/20/2026

Our Visitor Services Staff are a vital part of TAM. They not only help our guests, but they work with local artists in the TAM store, prepare the food and drinks in the Cafe, and help the building look its best. This month's staff pick found in the TAM Store from Kendra Muliagatele, from our visitor services team! They chose these borosilicate glass link earrings from artist Ellye Sevier of Ellye Rose Studios. Kendra says they enjoy the simple, but magical design. They also admire the radiance of the colorful glass.

Come in store or online to check out more of Ellye's work!

Don't miss the opening of "Project NW: Epiphany Couch" at Tacoma Art Museum.🗓 May 28🕕 6–8 pm📍 Tacoma Art Museum🎟 FreeThi...
05/19/2026

Don't miss the opening of "Project NW: Epiphany Couch" at Tacoma Art Museum.

🗓 May 28
🕕 6–8 pm
📍 Tacoma Art Museum
🎟 Free

This evening marks the debut of Epiphany Couch’s Project NW exhibition: "č’adac (Inheritance)." Project NW is a series which highlights artists and the depth and range of artistic expression in the region. The evening will include remarks from Project NW Curator, Ellen Ito, followed by the artist, offering insight into the ideas and process behind the work.

Couch’s practice draws on storytelling, generational knowledge, and relationships to land, material, and memory. Working across photography, beadwork, and sculpture, she creates objects that hold personal and collective histories.

All are welcome to attend, spend time with the work, and be part of the opening night community.

Free Thursday Neighborhood Nights at TAM are made possible by Tacoma Creates.

Image 1:
Epiphany Couch, "Burdened With More Beautiful Things: The Ancestors," 2024
Photoprints, glass beads, oak gall ink, and archival pigment prints on birch panels

Image 2:
Artist Epiphany Couch

05/16/2026

TAM Cinema's "Elements: Material and Process in the Moving Image" returns to the Museum for a free screening Thursday, May 21 at 6pm. This program, titled “The Nature of Things” will include works by Yuyan Wang, Ali Cherri, Liu Yujia, Claudia Claremi, John Smith, Erica Sheu, and James N. Kienitz Wilkins.

"Elements: Material and Process in the Moving Image" is a six-part film series, presenting twenty-five works from contemporary artists, and conceived in dialogue with the exhibition "HAUNTED."

There is a region in New Mexico that American art history has called "O'Keeffe Country." But for Genízaro peoples, Abiqu...
05/15/2026

There is a region in New Mexico that American art history has called "O'Keeffe Country." But for Genízaro peoples, Abiquiú is ancestral homeland, a place layered with sacred sites, architecture, and centuries of lived connection to the land.

"The Abiqueños and The Artist." curated by Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby, brings these two truths into the same room through the work of photographer Russel Albert Daniels and painter Georgia O'Keeffe. It is a rare and necessary exhibition, and it closes May 31.

We hope you'll visit before it's gone.

For this month's card of the month, we would love to introduce Karen Hackenburg's works on greeting cards. Seen as large...
05/14/2026

For this month's card of the month, we would love to introduce Karen Hackenburg's works on greeting cards. Seen as large scale paintings in the past exhibition "Sea Change: The Art of Karen Hackenburg," we carry them in a greeting card format, blank inside, and made from 100% recycled content, post-consumer waste stock. Find them on our card rack in store or shop online. You can find all of Karen's work via her artists page on our website.

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1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA
98402

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Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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