Tacoma Creates
Tacoma Creates is a community-supported initiative to increase access to arts, culture, heritage, and science experiences throughout Tacoma by reducing barriers to access and expanding offerings, particularly for underserved youth.
Through Tacoma Creates, eligible nonprofit cultural organizations can receive funding to make their public programs more accessible, bring new opportunities to neighborhoods throughout Tacoma, grow educational offerings for youth, and sustain the programs our community values most.
Select TAM programs are produced with support from Tacoma Creates – which is a fund that was made possible by local voters and is supported by local tax dollars:
- Free Thursday Neighborhood Nights
- Teen Open Studio
- Creative Aging programs for older adults
- Tacoma Public Library Partnerships: Studio and Storytime and Up and Atom: Art Workshops
- Student field trips and TAM in the Classroom
- Free exhibition-related public programs and exhibition openings
- Community festivals, including the Día de los Muertos Festival and In The Spirit
Thank YOU for your support of the cultural sector.
Tacoma Creates is funded through a sales tax of one-tenth of one percent. The programs listed above are examples of how Tacoma Art Museum and other cultural organizations are putting this money to work.
Explore all of the organizations funded by Tacoma Creates.