TAM In the Press

2018

• Tacoma News Tribune – Tacoma Art Museum smashes into one new wing and celebrates the man who created another, July 26, 2018
• San Francisco Chronicle – Chihuly’s Tacoma turns industrial history into center for industrial art, July 20, 2018
• Seattle Magazine – Seattle Artists and Tacoma’s Homegrown Creatives are Growing a Buzzworthy South Sound Arts Scene, July 2018
• ARTbeat Northwest – Tacoma Art Museum Events & Exhibitions, June 5, 2018
• International Examiner – June Visual Arts, June 5, 2018
• Tacoma Weekly – Growth of tourism continues upward, tops $1.2 billion, May 24, 2018
• Tacoma Weekly – Graduate Tacoma makes searching for summer youth programs easy, stress-free, May 24, 2018
• Real Change News – Sepia Stills: Tacoma Art Museum celebrates the photography of Ella McBride, May 23, 2018
• DatingAdvice.com – Enjoy Western Art and Deepen Your Connection With Someone Special at Tacoma Art Museum, May 22, 2018
• Travel Tacoma – Memorial Day Weekend and Discounts for Service Men and Women, May 22, 2018
• Morgan Stone Grether Photography – Tacoma Art Museum, May 16, 2018
• South Sound Talk – New Tacoma Art Museum Wing Opening Celebration Scheduled January 2019, May 10, 2018
• City Arts – Flowers and Focus: A Forgotten Photographer at Tacoma Art Museum, April 17, 2018
• Parent Map – Please Touch: 7 Seattle-Area Museums That Engage Kids, April 16, 2018
• KIRO 7 – 7 Things to Do This Weekend, April 2, 2018
• Seattle Met – 20 Perfect Spring Day Trips, March 29, 2018
• Weekly Volcano – Captive light “The Photography of Ella E. McBride” at Tacoma Art Museum, March 23, 2018
• Wherever Family – Family-Friendly Washington State, March 23, 2018
• Real Change News – Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘Native Portraiture’ deconstructs myths and stereotypes of Native people in art, March 21, 2018
• The Stranger – The Best Art Shows in Seattle: Spring 2018, March 14, 2018
• The Trail (UPS) – Tacoma Art Museum honors marginilized in new exhibits, March 9, 2018
• Tacoma Weekly – TAM Community Gallery hosts reception for ‘Like Mother, Like Daughter, March 8, 2018
• Seattle Magazine – 2018 Spring Arts Preview: The Full List of Can’t-Miss Shows From Seattle’s Galleries, Museums, Venues and Theaters, March 1, 208
• Tacoma & More – Should you Purchase a Museum Membership in Tacoma? I had over 700 reasons to do it, March 2018
• Tacoma News Tribune – Events for the week ahead, February 23, 2018
• Suburban Times – Tacoma Art Museum’s Spring Exhibitions Feature Two Female Artists, both with a Passion for their Art Forms and a Reverence for Nature, February 22, 2018
• Tacoma News Tribune – Events for the week ahead: TAM free West Fest, February 16, 2018
• Travel Tacoma – Tacoma Art Museum Continues to Confront Social Issues through Art, February 16, 2018
• NW Airlifter – Museum now free to service members, February 12, 2018
• Expedia – Getting artsy in America’s most creative places, year 2,  February 12, 208
• Move to Tacoma blog – 5 New Exhibitions Come to the Tacoma Art Museum,  February 12, 2018
• Albuquerque Journal – Spanish society, museum director leaving after four years, February 9, 2018
• City Arts – Zhi Lin Excavates a Strenuous History, February 7, 2018
• Tacoma Public Schools – ​TPS high schoolers get free access to two Tacoma museums thanks to new partnership,  February 1, 2018
• Seattle Magazine – Zhi Lin: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads, February 2018
• Buzz Feed – Five Reasons Winter Is Tacoma Art Museum’s Time To Shine, January 25, 2018
• Art News – David Setford Named Executive Director of Tacoma Art Museum, January 19, 2018
• Art Forum – Tacoma Art Museum Names David Setford Executive Director, January 19, 2018
• Art Daily – New Executive Director Named at Tacoma Art Museum, January 19, 2018
• Tacoma News Tribune – He leads an art museum in Santa Fe. Now he’s going to head the Tacoma Art Museum, January 19, 2018
• Tacoma News Tribune – New Tacoma Art Museum wing under construction for late 2018/early 2019 opening, January 19, 2017
• Real Change News – Artist Zhi Lin depicts the plight of Chinese migrants who worked on the railroad in Tacoma, January 17, 2018
• KBTC Northwest Now – Chinese Expulsion (video), January 8, 2017
• Alaska Beyond (Horizon Edition Magazine) – Wintry Scenes (page 16), January 2018
• Columbia College Today – The Work of Art, Winter 2017/2018

2017

• Crosscut – Tacoma Reckons with its racial past, November 22, 2017
• Northwest Military – “Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting” The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection at Tacoma Art Museum, November 16, 2017
• International Examiner – Making Pictures of the Missing, September 17, 2017
• Magazine Antiques – Purple mountains’ majesty in Tacoma, July 31, 2017
• Seattle Times – Plight of immigrants brought to light in ambitious Tacoma Art Museum show, July 27, 2017
• Business Examiner Media Blog – Museum of Glass, TAM, Auburn Symphony among grant recipients, July 6, 2017
• Business Examiner Media Blog – Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Glass announce collaboration, June 13, 2017
• KING 5 Evening – New Tacoma Art Museum exhibits celebrate the West, June 13, 2017
• Real Change News – Tacoma Art Museum showcases a survey of Northwest Coast Native American and First Nations prints, June 7, 2017
• Tulalip News – Cultural imPRINT: Northwest Coast Prints exhibition showcased at Tacoma Art Museum, May 10, 2017
• UW Perspectives Newsletter – Chinese Migrants & The Transcontinentals, May 2017
• Suburban Times – TAM’s Cultural imPRINT Exhibition Opens April 22, April 17, 2017

2016

• Newsweek – Exhibit at the Bronx Museum explores the influence of HIV/AIDS on American Art, July 16, 2016
• Wall Street Journal – How the Art World Responded to AIDS, July 10, 2016
• Seattle Times – Seattle Art Collector Vasiliki Dwyer donates 22 works to Tacoma Art Museum, June 29, 2016
• A & U, America’s AIDS Magazine – Art AIDS America and Institutionalized Racism in Art, June 27, 2016
• Seattle Met – Top Ten Things to do This Summer, June 23, 2016
• The News Tribune – Tacoma museum names Faith Brower to be curator of Haub collection , June 21, 2016
• Seattle Times – In Seattle art world, women run the show, June 18, 2016
• The Suburban Times – Teen Art Council forming at Tacoma Art Museum, June 15, 2016
• NW Military and Weekly Volcano – New Gifts and Purchases at Tacoma Art Museum, June 10, 2016
• The Stranger – The Best Art Shows in Seattle this Summer, June 8, 2016
• Fine Art Connoisseur, In Rare Company, June 2, 2016
• Art In America – Critical Eye: Personal Boundaries, June 1, 2016
• The Village Voice – Stroke of Genius: A Peek at NYC’s Summer’s Art Exhibitions,  June 1, 2016
• South Sound Magazine – Culture: The Best of the South Sound 2016, June 1, 2016
• Huffington Post, The Blog – Georgia Lawmakers: AIDS Exhibit is ‘Trash’, May 26, 2016
• The News Tribune – Review: Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘Northwest Art Now’ is relevant, inclusive and not a biennial, May 25, 2016
• KUOW 94.9 – Tacoma Art Museum’s nifty new painting, May 25, 2016
• The Stranger – Tacoma Art Museum NW Art Now reflects the world we have, not the world we want, May 25, 2016
• Norway, The Official Site in the United States – Norwegian Minister of Culture visited the West Coast, May 21, 2016
• The Norwegian American – Munch and the sea, May 17, 2016
• Mast Media – Edvard Munch and the Tacoma Art Museum, May 2, 2016
• The Seattle Times – A trunk full of Munch: Tacoma Art Museum hosts Norwegian painter’s seascapes, April 26, 2016
• KPLU – Beyond ‘The Scream’: Edvard Munch’s work on display in Tacoma, April 25, 2016
• The News Tribune – TAM’s  Munch print show goes deeper than just his famous “The Scream”, April 13, 2016
• Pacific Lutheran University News – PLU sponsors “Edvard Munch and the Sea” at Tacoma Art Museum, April 6, 2016
• Art & Antiques Magazine – The vanishing Indian painter (John Mix Stanley), March 3, 2016
• Arts ATL – ‘Art AIDS America’ retrospectively shows us the face of an epidemic, February 25, 2016
• Kennesaw State University Sentinel – ‘Art AIDS America’ exhibit opens at KSU’s Zuckerman Museum, February 23, 2016
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Powerful Zuckerman survey show tackles AIDS crisis in art, February 23, 2016
• WABE 90.1 Atlanta’s NPR^® Station – Kennesaw Exhibit Shows How AIDS Changed American Art, February 19, 2016
• The News Tribune – John Mix Stanley’s not-so-wild West explorer paintings come to Tacoma Art Museum, February 15, 2016
• KING 5 Evening Magazine –Visit the Wild West at Tacoma Art Museum, February 10, 2016
• The News Tribune – TAM at 80: Show Off Big Gifts and Stay Relevant, Editorial Board, February 6, 2016
• Atlanta Magazine – Zuckerman Museum exhibition explores how AIDS epidemic changed American art,  January 21, 2016
• Cowboys & Indians magazine – The Lost Art of John Mix Stanley, February/March 2016 issue
• Atlanta magazine – Zuckerman Museum Exhibition Explores how AIDS Epidemic Changed American Art, January 21, 2016
• The New York Times – Tacoma Art Museum to Build New Gallery to House Major Gift, January 14, 2016
• KIRO 7 – Best known philanthropic families makes big donation to Tacoma Art Museum, January 14, 2016
• The News Tribune – Becky Benaroya gives Tacoma Art Museum her Collection, $14 million, January 13, 2016
• Seattle Times – Benaroya Family Art Collection Headed to Tacoma Art Museum, January 13, 2016

2015

Art AIDS America

• Seattle Weekly – Art AIDS America at TAM: This big survey show isn’t only about illness, but art history’s return to the personal and corporeal, November 17, 2015
• Seattle Channel’s Art Zone with Nancy Guppy – Rock Hushka talks about the Importance of Art Aids America, October 30, 2015
• The Stranger/SLOG – The Perfect Pop Painting for Your Party, Jeb!  October 30, 2015
• Northwest Military – Revisiting ‘Art Aids America’: A return visit to Tacoma Art Museum’s “most affecting” exhibition,  October 29, 2015
• The Stranger/SLOG – Currently Hanging: The Bloody Church of Martin Wong, Only on View for a Short Time, October 29, 2015
• Seattle Times – How AIDS changed American art: Tacoma Art Museum Show Charts Responses to the HIV Crisis, October 18, 2015
• Crosscut – TAM’s New Exhibit Looks at the Scourge of AIDS on People and Art , October 17, 2015
• Tacoma Weekly – TAM Show Examines Impact of AIDS Epidemic on Art in America, October 15, 2015
• Seattle Gay News – How the AIDS Epidemic Changed American Art, October 14, 2015
• Vanguard Seattle – Lessons in Beauty, History, and Mercy: ‘Art AIDS America’ at TAM, October 13, 2015
• Fred Hutch News Center – Still Here: Tacoma’s Art AIDS America Exhibit Carries a Message that HIV Researchers, Activists Support, October 12, 2015
• The Jerome Project – Jerome Caja in ‘Art AIDS America’ Group Exhibition, October 10, 2015
• KUOW’s The Record with Ross Reynolds, New Exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum Unveils Concealed Themes of AIDS Art, October 9, 2015
• The Stranger/SLOG – Currently Hanging: A Hot Butt, a Stud Walk, and a Third Leg, October 9, 2015
• The Weekly Volcano,  ‘Art AIDS America’ at Tacoma Art Museum: World Class Exhibition Surveys 30 Years of AIDS, October 8, 2015
• The News Tribune – ‘Art AIDS America’ Opens at Tacoma Art Museum, also published in The Olympian, October 7, 2015
• The Stranger – Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘Art AIDS America’ is a Messy Masterpiece that Reframes the Past 40 Years of American Art. NBD. October 7, 2015
• ArtDaily – Art AIDS America: Groundbreaking Exhibition Debuts at Tacoma Art Museum, October 2015
• ARTNews – Is This the First AIDS Artwork? September 18, 2015
• Seattle Gay News – Art AIDS America: Groundbreaking Exhibition Debuts at Tacoma Art Museum on October 3, September 18, 2015
• New York Times – Once Upon a Time and Now (pdf file), March 5, 2015
• POZ Magazine – Art That Makes You Go Hmm… (pdf file), April/May 2015
• HuffPost – Art AIDS America: An Impressive Exhibition and an Important Curatorial Event (pdf file), July 13, 2015
• WIRED – A Sobering Look at How AIDS Changed Art in America (pdf file), August 5, 2015
• LOOP Magazine – AIDS’ Impact on Art is Apparently Still Taboo, August, 2015
• American Photography ProPhotoDaily – See it Now: How AIDS Changed Art Forever, August 11, 2015
• Advocate.Com – Art AIDS America Photo Show, August, 2015
• SLOG (The Stranger) – Yes! Art AIDS America is Here (pdf file), July 15, 2015
• The Seattle Lesbian – Art AIDS America Groundbreaking Exhibition Debuts at TAM, September 2015

Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff

• International Examiner – Roger Shimomura Takes On American History (web link)
• Seattle Times – Bright colors and ugly stereotypes meld in ‘American Knockoff’ (web link – pdf file)
• The News Tribune – Stereotypes – Kapow! Roger Shimomura Gives Racial Prejudice a Pop Art Clarity at Tacoma Art Museum (web link)
• Seattle Weekly – Cartoons and Stereotypes: Two Museum Shows Contrast Roger Shimomura and Chuck Jones (web link)
• Tacoma Weekly – Roger Shimomura at Tacoma Art Museum: Master of Pop Takes On Stereotypes and Explores Identity (web link)

Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley

• The Wall Street Journal – Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley Review – John Mix Stanley’s Art Bridges the Romance and Realities of the American West   (web link)

Other

• South Sound Talk – Surdna Foundation Grant Awarded to Northwest Artist Matika Wilbur (web link)
• The New York Observer – An Art Fair in Seattle (web link – pdf file)
• Seattle King 5 News – Pop-up putt-putt a work of art (web link – pdf file)