Grab your camera and head outside. Spend the summer capturing the excitement of nature around you. Once you have your favorite shot enter it in Trek's Photo Contest. Entries due Friday, Aug 1.
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Grab your camera and head outside. Spend the summer capturing the excitement of nature around you. Once you have your favorite shot enter it in Trek's Photo Contest. Entries due Friday, Aug 1.

Images will be on display Aug 16-27 in the Cheney Children's Discovery Center. Info and rules are online at nwtrek.org. <<less

Each Friday in August, Garfield Book Company at PLU will host a book club for children ages 7-12. A new selection will be read each month. August’s book is “Holes” by Lewis Sachar, a humorous story of ...more

Each Friday in August, Garfield Book Company at PLU will host a book club for children ages 7-12. A new selection will be read each month. August’s book is “Holes” by Lewis Sachar, a humorous story of punishment and redemption. Call the store for a reading schedule. <<less

LeMay – America’s Car Museum® will hold the 31st Annual LeMay Museum Car Show & Auction at the Marymount Academy and the LeMay homestead in Tacoma, WA on Saturday, August 30, 2008 from 9am to 5pm. Vis ...more

LeMay – America’s Car Museum® will hold the 31st Annual LeMay Museum Car Show & Auction at the Marymount Academy and the LeMay homestead in Tacoma, WA on Saturday, August 30, 2008 from 9am to 5pm. Visitors will be able to see over 1,000 vintage, classic and specialty automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles from the LeMay Collection, plus hundreds of local collector cars.

In addition to the cars, there will be automobile-related vendor displays, an auction that will be hosted by Mathers Inc. Auctioneers, and vintage bicycle and motorcycle displays. Entry donations are $10 for adults, $20 for a family of 4, $5 for children under 12, and $5 for active-duty military. Free parking will be available offsite with free shuttle bus transportation between the parking lots, the Marymount Academy and the LeMay homestead. For more information call (253) 536-2885 or visit www.lemaymuseum.org <<less

The memorial consists of small crosses and headstones, one for each of those who has died, and all arrayed as they would be at Arlington National Cemetery. This is a nonpartisan memorial, designed to ...more

The memorial consists of small crosses and headstones, one for each of those who has died, and all arrayed as they would be at Arlington National Cemetery. This is a nonpartisan memorial, designed to raise public awareness of the costs of the war in Iraq. <<less

To celebrate the summer season and the arrival of Tall Ships in Tacoma (July 3–7), Tacoma Art Museum presents a small selection of maritime-themed prints in the Murray Family Event Space. These images ...more

To celebrate the summer season and the arrival of Tall Ships in Tacoma (July 3–7), Tacoma Art Museum presents a small selection of maritime-themed prints in the Murray Family Event Space. These images—ranging from the traditional to the abstract—salute life on the water and the people who call it home. <<less

Join us Fridays and Saturdays for two nightly seatings and Sundays for brunch from June 20, 2008-September 14, 2008. At 6,872' you'll dine with a breathtaking view of Mt. Rainier and the Cascade Range ...more

Join us Fridays and Saturdays for two nightly seatings and Sundays for brunch from June 20, 2008-September 14, 2008. At 6,872' you'll dine with a breathtaking view of Mt. Rainier and the Cascade Range. Enjoy fine dining Northwest style with a view you won't find anywhere else! The newly rennovated Summit House Bistro is Washington's highest restaurant. Scenic chairlift rides will not be offered this summer. Dining with us is your only way to the top! Dinner Seatings:June 20-July 27 Alpenglow Seating 6pm, Sunset Seating 8:30pm Aug. 1-Sept. 13 Alpenglow Seating 5:30pm, Sunset Seating 8pm
Brunch package:June 22-Sept. 14 (Sundays only). $49* per person includes your chairlift ride, brunch, coffee or tea and juice. *Tax and gratuity is not included. <<less

Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern is a mid-career survey comprising thirty exceptional glass works crafted over the past two decades by esteemed artist, Dante Marioni. Marioni studied with Lino Tagl ...more

Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern is a mid-career survey comprising thirty exceptional glass works crafted over the past two decades by esteemed artist, Dante Marioni. Marioni studied with Lino Tagliapietra and is known for his mastery of Venetian techniques to create graceful glass forms in bold colors and with classic lines. In his hands, the traditional vessel is transformed into modern sculpture with shape and surface simultaneously minimalist and delicately complex. Included in the exhibition are pieces from the artist’s personal collection as well as one multi-vessel wall display made specifically for this exhibition. <<less

Play and discover Chinese culture and language without ever leaving Tacoma. Children 2 1/2 and older, along with their grown-ups, explore Mandarin language and Chinese customs through music, tradition ...more

Play and discover Chinese culture and language without ever leaving Tacoma. Children 2 1/2 and older, along with their grown-ups, explore Mandarin language and Chinese customs through music, traditional stories, games and art. <<less

This summer, as a complement to Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible, local calligraphers serve as artists-in-residence in the museum’s Open Art Studio. They demonstrate calligraphy technique ...more

This summer, as a complement to Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible, local calligraphers serve as artists-in-residence in the museum’s Open Art Studio. They demonstrate calligraphy techniques and provide instruction for visitors of all ages. <<less

Organized to complement Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect, this exhibition includes a selection of sculptural work in glass by fifteen distinguished contemporary artists who have an historic and endurin ...more

Organized to complement Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect, this exhibition includes a selection of sculptural work in glass by fifteen distinguished contemporary artists who have an historic and enduring association with glass master Lino Tagliapietra. Artists represented include Nancy Callan, Dale Chihuly, Paul Cunningham, Dan Dailey, Jen Elek, Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Benjamin Moore, James Mongrain, Janusz Pozniak, Richard Royal, Preston Singletary and David Walters. <<less

This summer, as a complement to Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible, local calligraphers serve as artists-in-residence in the museum’s Open Art Studio. They demonstrate calligraphy technique ...more

This summer, as a complement to Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible, local calligraphers serve as artists-in-residence in the museum’s Open Art Studio. They demonstrate calligraphy techniques and provide instruction for visitors of all ages. In addition to Saturdays, this program occurs on Free Third Thursdays, July 17 and August 21, 12–8 pm. <<less

Created by world-renowned sound artist Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet is an award-winning sound installation based on the choral composition Spem in Alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis. W ...more

Created by world-renowned sound artist Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet is an award-winning sound installation based on the choral composition Spem in Alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis. Written in 1573 for a forty-voice choir, Spem in Alium is one of the most intricate and beautiful compositions of the English Renaissance. The Forty Part Motet recreates a performance of Tallis’s complex choral work that requires eight choirs of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass). Eight groups of five speakers arranged in a large oval allow visitors to experience the choral composition from the vantage point of the individual performers. Based in British Columbia and Berlin, Janet Cardiff works with sound, movement, film, video, and photography. In collaboration with her partner, George Bures Miller, she represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and has had two internationally traveling exhibitions. This rare presentation of The Forty Part Motet was organized by Tacoma Art Museum. <<less

Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible presents the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. The Saint John's Bible is ...more

Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible presents the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. The Saint John's Bible is a contemporary work created in the tradition of handwritten medieval manuscripts. The artistic director of the project, Donald Jackson, is one of the world's foremost calligraphers and has worked with scribes and artists to write and illuminate The Saint John's Bible using quills and paints hand-ground from precious minerals and stones. Theologians from Saint John's Abbey and University and the College of Saint Benedict, together with consultants from other faiths, have worked with Jackson, providing theological briefs that direct the interpretation of scripture in the illustrations. Based on these briefs, Jackson and his team of scribes and artists have created illuminations reflecting a multicultural world and humanity's enormous strides in science, technology, and space travel. Because the project is an interfaith undertaking, Jackson has incorporated imagery from Eastern and Western religious traditions, as well as influences from Native American cultures. <<less

Pacific Northwest artists display and sell their original maritime art in Maritime Fest's juried art show held at the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum. Exhibitors compete for $800 in cash prizes. All medi ...more

Pacific Northwest artists display and sell their original maritime art in Maritime Fest's juried art show held at the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum. Exhibitors compete for $800 in cash prizes. All mediums are accepted.

This year's juror is Al Johnsen.

The show opens on Thursday, Aug. 21, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. <<less

Telling Stories includes about forty pieces, many of them visitor favorites from the museum’s collection. Several are recent acquisitions that have never been on view as part of the permanent collecti ...more

Telling Stories includes about forty pieces, many of them visitor favorites from the museum’s collection. Several are recent acquisitions that have never been on view as part of the permanent collection before. Each piece explores how artists capture the spirit and essence of narrative tales. Sections of the exhibition are divided into character, represented by portraiture; setting, through landscape and still life; and plot development and resolution, through figurative works. Visitors are invited to share their musings with the entire community by writing the wall-label text. Simply answer “what part of the story does this image represent?” Every few months new labels are created from visitor submissions. <<less

Come witness the expansion of the great Ottoman Empire. The Karpeles Manuscript Museum is now showing Turkish Educational Maps. Journey from the Holy Crusades to the New World and from the Vikings t ...more

Come witness the expansion of the great Ottoman Empire. The Karpeles Manuscript Museum is now showing Turkish Educational Maps. Journey from the Holy Crusades to the New World and from the Vikings to maps of the heavens; and play a bit of name that country flip-flop. Was that Florida or Korea. This exhibit runs from July 1st through September 23rd. We are located at 407 South “G” Street in Tacoma, across the street from the Seymour Botanical Conservatory. <<less

A market offering fresh flowers, produce, food, wood crafts, jewelry, and other handcrafted arts from nearly 100 vendors. Located in the quaint and scenic fishing town of Gig Harbor, WA 
Ten minu ...more

A market offering fresh flowers, produce, food, wood crafts, jewelry, and other handcrafted arts from nearly 100 vendors. Located in the quaint and scenic fishing town of Gig Harbor, WA 
Ten minutes from Tacoma across the Narrows Bridge
Entertainment - Free Parking - Kids Activities - Hot Food <<less

Join curator Fred Poyner for an in-depth look at the exhibition Faces of Leadership: Presidential Portraiture. The program includes a 45-minute presentation during which Poyner talks about the preside ...more

Join curator Fred Poyner for an in-depth look at the exhibition Faces of Leadership: Presidential Portraiture. The program includes a 45-minute presentation during which Poyner talks about the presidential works of art on display and the artists who created them, including Seattle's "first sculptor" James Wehn. A guided gallery tour of the exhibition follows. Registration is not required.Artists far and wide have created images of our presidents and displayed them for all to see. These creative works surpass mere physical representations, providing historical continuity and a visible legacy for our nation. Faces of Leadership: Presidential Portraiture features more than 30 artworks and images from the permanent collections of the Washington State Historical Society, including sculpture busts, coins and medallions, and snapshots of presidents on the move. This exhibit is on view now through October 5, 2008. <<less

Every Thursday from June through October the Theatre District blossoms with an exciting array of sights, sounds and smells. Since 1990, freshly picked fruits and vegetables, handcrafted artisan breads ...more

Every Thursday from June through October the Theatre District blossoms with an exciting array of sights, sounds and smells. Since 1990, freshly picked fruits and vegetables, handcrafted artisan breads, quality hand-made gifts, toe tapping music and fresh flowers have beckoned shoppers from near and far. This festive community event has become a Thursday tradition in Tacoma, offering the best flavors, sights and smells that the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Come join the fun, and visit with the people who grow the freshest produce offered in the South Sound. Parking - Ride the Tacoma Link! Park your car at the Tacoma Dome Park and Ride-located at 25th street and D street and take the latest in transportation… the Tacoma Link! It’s Free! <<less

Every Saturday, throughout the Market season, local farmers and food vendors offer a changing selection of fresh food and produce, including organic fruit and vegetables. You can also find plants and ...more

Every Saturday, throughout the Market season, local farmers and food vendors offer a changing selection of fresh food and produce, including organic fruit and vegetables. You can also find plants and cut flowers, grass-fed meat, fresh caught salmon, locally cultured cheeses, bakery items, hot food and select garden-related crafts and products. The Master Gardeners will even be on hand to answer your gardening queries.In addition, the Market showcases local musicians and performers. Look for our upcoming special events including Kid's Days and performances by Dance Theatre Northwest. <<less

The thematic selection from Tacoma Art Museum’s permanent collection explores how artists capture the spirit and essence of narrative tales. Following closely the narrative structure of stories, theme ...more

The thematic selection from Tacoma Art Museum’s permanent collection explores how artists capture the spirit and essence of narrative tales. Following closely the narrative structure of stories, themes include character, setting, and plot development and resolution. The exhibition includes many favorites from the museum’s collection, surveying works made from the late 1890’s to the present in a vast array of media. Highlights include well-known paintings such as The Two Sisters by Pierre-Auguste Renior and Ballet in the Park by Everett Shinn. The art of the Northwest is showcased with works by Jacob Lawrence, Joseph Park, and others. <<less

The South was not the only place where Americans were denied equal rights. Right here in Washington, people could not get jobs or housing because of their color. The national civil rights movement of ...more

The South was not the only place where Americans were denied equal rights. Right here in Washington, people could not get jobs or housing because of their color. The national civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s helped, but local leaders fought for equal rights in their own way. Learn how in Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way. The exhibit features a rich collection of artifacts, including photographs and newspaper articles, many not seen in half a century.
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM, with extended hours and free admission every Thursday night, 5 – 8 PM; Sunday NOON – 5 PM. <<less

The South was not the only place where Americans were denied equal rights. Right here in Washington, people could not get jobs or housing because of their color. The national civil rights movement of ...more

The South was not the only place where Americans were denied equal rights. Right here in Washington, people could not get jobs or housing because of their color. The national civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s helped, but local leaders fought for equal rights in their own way. Learn how in Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way. The exhibit will features a rich collection of artifacts, including photographs and newspaper articles, many not seen in half a century. Organized by the Washington State Historical Society and the Tacoma Civil Rights Project. <<less

Take a fresh look at what the iron road created in The West the Railroads Made. Learn about how this one form of transportation reshaped the West and helped create a truly continental nation. Beyond i ...more

Take a fresh look at what the iron road created in The West the Railroads Made. Learn about how this one form of transportation reshaped the West and helped create a truly continental nation. Beyond iron tracks and coal-fired engines, the story of railroads is a story of transformation.  

Railroads brought the modern world to the West and the West to the modern world. The West the Railroads Made recounts how the idea of a Pacific railroad grew through the 1840s and 1850s, how it came to life in the second half of the 19th century, and how it reconceived itself to survive new challenges by the late 20th century. The exhibit will focus on the battleground between the river cities St. Louis and Portland, and the railroad cities Chicago and Seattle/Tacoma.  

The West the Railroads Made will feature more than 80 artifacts, including rare railroad ephemera, photographs, paintings and other three-dimensional pieces. Organized by the Washington State Historical Society and the Barriger Railroad Library of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. <<less

Celebrate Fridays at the Museum of Glass! Enjoy a box lunch from Gallucci’s Catering while watching our featured Summer Series artist at work in the Hot Shop. Please call 253.284.4737 to order your lu ...more

Celebrate Fridays at the Museum of Glass! Enjoy a box lunch from Gallucci’s Catering while watching our featured Summer Series artist at work in the Hot Shop. Please call 253.284.4737 to order your lunch at least 24 hours in advance. For more information, visit www.museumofglass.org. <<less

Joseph Rossano’s Mirrored Murrelets highlights the environmental impact of a changing environment on the Marbled Murrelet, a small sea bird that nests primarily in the old-growth forests of the Pacifi ...more

Joseph Rossano’s Mirrored Murrelets highlights the environmental impact of a changing environment on the Marbled Murrelet, a small sea bird that nests primarily in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. The installation comprises 275 mirrored glass birds, created in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop in January, 2008, that “float” just above the surface of the Museum’s mid-level reflecting pool. <<less

Joseph Rossano’s Mirrored Murrelets highlights the impact on the Marbled Murrelet, a small sea bird that nests primarily in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. The installation comprises ...more

Joseph Rossano’s Mirrored Murrelets highlights the impact on the Marbled Murrelet, a small sea bird that nests primarily in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. The installation comprises two hundred mirrored glass birds, created in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop in January, 2008, that will “float” just above the surface of the Museum’s mid-level reflecting pool. The mirrored surfaces of the birds will reflect the viewer’s image, symbolically suggesting the impact of humans on the natural world. As visitors experience the installation, Rossano hopes they will “reflect on the plight of the bird as well as the beauty of its existence.” <<less