Tacoma Art Museum’s photography collection currently numbers around 450 works dating from 1905 to the present and includes a range of photographic processes from early chloride prints and photogravures to … Continue reading Recent Acquisitions: Imogen Cunningham
Tacoma Art Museum’s photography collection currently numbers around 450 works dating from 1905 to the present and includes a range of photographic processes from early chloride prints and photogravures to … Continue reading Recent Acquisitions: Carrie Mae Weems
The Northwest Studio Art Jewelry Display showcases a wide variety of works from the museum’s important Northwest studio jewelry collection. A generous donation enabled us to reimagine how these small … Continue reading Studio Jewelry Artist Spotlights – The Northwest Studio Art Jewelry Display
The Northwest Studio Art Jewelry Display showcases a wide variety of works from the museum’s important Northwest studio jewelry collection. A generous donation enabled us to reimagine how these small … Continue reading Studio Jewelry Artist Spotlights – The Northwest Studio Art Jewelry Display
The Pacific Northwest is celebrated as a pivotal center for the birth and growth of the contemporary studio glass movement. However, the region’s history as a key hub for studio … Continue reading Studio Jewelry at TAM – The Northwest Studio Art Jewelry Display
“Provenance” is the museum term for the ownership history of an artwork. We’re interested in knowing this information because it can offer insights into the artist’s life and career as … Continue reading Recent Acquisitions – Grafton Tyler Brown “Untitled (Columbia River Scene)”
Though Tacoma Art Museum was founded in 1935, it didn’t begin building the collection until 1961. It has now grown to include more than 5,100 objects and has been shaped … Continue reading Exploring the TAM Collection in Seven Questions
Tacoma Art Museum was founded in 1935 but it was not until 2003 that it moved into a building designed specifically as an art museum. For 68 years the organization … Continue reading All About TAM: Buildings over Time
The catalogue card that led to four mysterious boxes read simply “Delivery—Forest Service from Washington D.C. 1952.” Inside them was a remarkable discovery, one of many that has made … Continue reading Lessons Learned: Never Throw Away an Old Box without Looking Inside
One of the joys, and sometimes terrors, of being a curator is the chance you will be asked to curate an exhibition on an unusual or unfamiliar topic. My area … Continue reading The Simpsons Meet Monet
