Tacoma Art Place
Tacoma Art Place provides the studio space, equipment, and classes so you can explore your creativity. We are a growing facility with new classes and community activities all the time!
Donate to Tacoma Art Place:
Tacoma Art Place is a 501(c) 3 Charitable Non-Profit
Events & Classes:
Beginning Jewelry Design
Beaded Collage Journal
Watercolor Jewelry Workshop
Tie-Dye Workshop
Materials and Techniques of Painting
Group Knitting with Megan Peters
Working with Clay -- Open Studio Time
with Artist Gail Kelly
Photography Class
Beginning Darkroom Printing
Advanced Darkroom Printing
Darkroom Basics
How to Use Your Digital or Film Camera,
Location Shoot
Get more details by linking to Events/Classes.
Beginning Jewelry Design
Beaded Collage Journal
Watercolor Jewelry Workshop
Tie-Dye Workshop
Materials and Techniques of Painting
Group Knitting with Megan Peters
Working with Clay -- Open Studio Time
with Artist Gail Kelly
Photography Class
Beginning Darkroom Printing
Advanced Darkroom Printing
Darkroom Basics
How to Use Your Digital or Film Camera,
Location Shoot
Get more details by linking to Events/Classes.
Bo Chambers
and the
The Awesome Elders
July/August 2010 at TAP Gallery
“The Awesome Elders” by Bo Chambers
Bo Chambers with LBo Designs bags and dolls
“The Awesome Elders” have arrived at the Tacoma Art Place for the month of August. Bo Chambers has filled the gallery with her new life-sized artist’s dolls that celebrate the senior citizens of Tacoma and the lively styles they sport. Also showing is her new line of elegant handbags made from upholstery remnants. Bo will donate 50% of proceeds from handbags sales to the Tacoma Art Place.
Exhibit Dates
August 4th through August 29th
Artist’s Reception
Thursday, August 19th
5:30 to 8:00 pm
and the
The Awesome Elders
July/August 2010 at TAP Gallery
“The Awesome Elders” by Bo Chambers
Bo Chambers with LBo Designs bags and dolls
“The Awesome Elders” have arrived at the Tacoma Art Place for the month of August. Bo Chambers has filled the gallery with her new life-sized artist’s dolls that celebrate the senior citizens of Tacoma and the lively styles they sport. Also showing is her new line of elegant handbags made from upholstery remnants. Bo will donate 50% of proceeds from handbags sales to the Tacoma Art Place.
Exhibit Dates
August 4th through August 29th
Artist’s Reception
Thursday, August 19th
5:30 to 8:00 pm
Tacoma Art Place T-Shirt
Design Contest Winner:
Local graphic artist, Laurie Davenport, submitted the winning design in Tacoma Art Place’s t-shirt contest and walked away with the $250 prize.
The non-profit art center, located in the Martin Luther King neighborhood of Tacoma, launched the contest to invite area artists to design a t-shirt inspired by the mission of Tacoma Art Place.
“I decided to enter this contest because I've admired the idea behind Tacoma Art Place since it started and enjoy watching its growth and success -- talent doesn't respect class, age or economic boundaries, but it does need nurturing,” said Davenport after learning that she won.
“I thought of this design when I read the contest announcement, how the name itself could work into the design. Tacoma - enthusiastically outstretched arms; art - the center, the heart; place, a solid foundation, well, with wheels. I wanted it to be humorous, easy to recognize, and show how transformative the work of Tacoma Art Place can be -- there may easily be a serious artist lurking within that noisy kid skateboarding past your house,” said Davenport.
DTI Sports, co-sponsor of the contest, printed the t-shirts for TAP and Davenport is the lucky wearer of the first one. T-shirts are available at TAP for a suggested minimum donation of $20.00.
“We had an anonymous donor offer funding to run this t-shirt design competition to help us raise awareness for Tacoma Art Place and found people really had fun with it,” said TAP marketing chair, Natalie McNair-Huff. “We are grateful that our judges Stephanie Stebich of Tacoma Art Museum, Lynn Di Nino of Di Nino Fabrications, and Stan Shaw of Stan Shaw Illustration also took part in the fun.”
T-Shirts are available for purchase at Tacoma Art Place
for a suggested donation of $20.
Tacoma Art Place Announces Winner of Viral Video Contest
Tacoma, WA – Two local filmmakers, Chris Wood and Ian Milatz, used the power of creativity and YouTube to win the viral video contest held by Tacoma Art Place (TAP) and sponsored by Comcast. The winners split the $250 prize after meeting the challenge to create a 30-second video promoting the mission of Tacoma Art Place, a non-profit art center in the Martin Luther King neighborhood of Tacoma.
"Experiences like the Tacoma Art Place video contest are a very fun way to exercise those creative muscles, as well as do something that benefits the community - what could be better? I utilize Facebook mainly to reach friends and colleagues and to tell them about TAP," said Chris Wood.
Contest co-winner Ian Milatz is only thirteen years old. "I'm so impressed with the video by Ian, and I understand he has communicated with Chris about his production business and now looks to him as a mentor. These are the kinds of results we like to see at TAP and we're grateful to Comcast for helping us to bring this contest to the community," said TAP founder Linda Danforth.
“We try to foster participation in a variety of art mediums, and thought a video contest would be a fun incentive to encourage people who might not have produced a video before,” added Danforth.
"Experiences like the Tacoma Art Place video contest are a very fun way to exercise those creative muscles, as well as do something that benefits the community - what could be better? I utilize Facebook mainly to reach friends and colleagues and to tell them about TAP," said Chris Wood.
Contest co-winner Ian Milatz is only thirteen years old. "I'm so impressed with the video by Ian, and I understand he has communicated with Chris about his production business and now looks to him as a mentor. These are the kinds of results we like to see at TAP and we're grateful to Comcast for helping us to bring this contest to the community," said TAP founder Linda Danforth.
“We try to foster participation in a variety of art mediums, and thought a video contest would be a fun incentive to encourage people who might not have produced a video before,” added Danforth.
Winner Number 1 Produced by Ian Milatz
Winner Number 2 Produced Chris Wood